1. Student Advisory: Introducing a Multicultural
CurriculumPapio SouthProfessional DevelopmentProject 2012
2. Student Advisory Build Believe Belong A Multicultural
Curriculum
3. BuildDesign, Organize, and Collaborate
4. Getting Started Why do we need aMulticulturalCurriculum? Why
add to theStudent AdvisoryCurriculum? How will this effectstaff and
students?
5. Collaboration
6. Request from each content area one faculty member to be on
advisory team/planning committee or Request a teacher from each
grade level to be on the advisory planning committee.Start with
volunteersMath, English, History, CollaborationSocial Studies,
Foods,Science, etc.
7. Curricular Ideas September 15 - October 15 is Hispanic
History Month. Ramadan February is Black History Month March is
Womens History Month April is National Poetry May - food festival
with international foods
8. BelieveGet Invested, Gain Support
9. Multicultural education holds the power to transform,
itprovides hope at a time when the future is unclear, and,perhaps
most importantly, it provides an opportunity for us toimagine the
world as fair, equitable, and just place in which tolive and work.
--- Cumming-McMannBELIEVE
10. Believe
11. Diversity at Papio South Click on Video Above
12. Time to make a difference! Who are the students at our
school? How can we build, help them to believe, and help them
belong ?Papillion-La Vista South High School
13. A Multicultural WorldEven our heroes come in every color,
shape and size.
14. Belong Titan Pride
15. Belong to School We want the students that attend Papio
South to feel like they belong. Again to do this, they must feel
accepted and see themselves in the school. Students who are not of
color or of any minority group need to learn about others different
than them.
16. School Demographics! 14.35% of the PLSD students are
minority 19.51% of the PLSD students are on the free or reduced
cost lunch plans 8.8 % of the PLSD students are militaryRegardless
of who are students are (Papillion-La Vista School District
[PLVSD].we must reach
them(2010)http://www.paplv.org/Pages/DistrictSt atistics.aspx)
17. Putting the Pieces together
18. References Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and
mixed methodsCreswell, J. W. (2009). approaches (3rd ed.). Thousand
Oaks, Ca: SAGE Publications, Inc.Crossing the Mainstream:
Multicultural Perspectives in Teaching Literature (1994) Eileen
Iscoff Oliver.Cumming-McCann, A. (2003). Multicultural education
connecting theory to practice. National Center for the Study of
Adult Learning and Literacy: Focus on Basics, 6(B). Retrieved from
www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/fob/2004/fob_6d.pdfDavid O.
McKay School of Education. (2011). Diversity: Curriculum. Retrieved
from http://education.byu/diversity/curriculum.htmlRojas, Mary
Alexandra. (Re)visioning U.S. Latino Literatures in High School
English Classrooms. English Education. Volume 43. No. 3. Apr.
(2010): 263-277. Web. 30 Jun. 2010.U.S. Bureau of the Census.
(1991). 1990 Census of Population: General Population
Characteristics in the United States. Washington, D.C.
Auditor.
19. Professional DevelopmentWhats2012 Message?Project Your