1. 1. Student Advisory: Introducing a Multicultural CurriculumPapio SouthProfessional DevelopmentProject 2012
2. 2. Student Advisory Build Believe Belong A Multicultural Curriculum
3. 3. BuildDesign, Organize, and Collaborate
4. 4. Getting Started Why do we need aMulticulturalCurriculum? Why add to theStudent AdvisoryCurriculum? How will this effectstaff and students?
5. 5. Collaboration
6. 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. 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. 8. BelieveGet Invested, Gain Support
9. 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. 10. Believe
11. 11. Diversity at Papio South Click on Video Above
12. 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. 13. A Multicultural WorldEven our heroes come in every color, shape and size.
14. 14. Belong Titan Pride
15. 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. 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. 17. Putting the Pieces together
18. 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. 19. Professional DevelopmentWhats2012 Message?Project Your