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Between The Lines: Small ways Minority Culture Can be Integrated into CA High School Curriculum CLP 2014 Jonathan Ho Russell Hong Albert Lutz-Paap Linh Ton Thy Truong

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Between The Lines: Small ways Minority Culture Can be Integrated into CA High School Curriculum. CLP 2014 Jonathan Ho Russell Hong Albert Lutz-Paap Linh Ton Thy Truong. The Birth of Ethnic Studies. -Third World Liberation Front (twLF) SFSU, UCB 1969 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Between The Lines:  Small ways Minority Culture Can be Integrated into CA High School Curriculum

Between The Lines: Small ways Minority Culture Can be Integrated into CA High School Curriculum

CLP 2014Jonathan HoRussell HongAlbert Lutz-PaapLinh TonThy Truong

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The Birth of Ethnic Studies

-Third World Liberation Front (twLF) SFSU, UCB 1969

-Minority student group history undervalued & ignored.

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Resistance

○ Balancing Priorities○ Culturally Competent Teachers○ Inclusion (Include All Cultures)

*Banks, J. (1993). Approaches to multicultural curriculum reform. In J. Banks and C. Banks (Eds.), Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Mainstream Curriculum

Heroes and Holidays Integration STRUCTURA

L REFORM

Acknowledge Difference

Cultivate Difference

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What’s Common Core ?Pros-

International standards.

- Critical thinking skills.

Cons- Difficult

transition.

- Vague standards.

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What the experts say (Action Plan)

• Work within Common Core; lots of room for Inclusive Curriculum.

• Supplemental multicultural reading list.

Gary Mukai, Director of the Stanford Program for International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)

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Opportunity -East Side reamping curriculum-Opportunity in Elective Classes.

(Hispanic-46%, Asian- 32%).

-Awareness: Film “Precious Knowledge”

-HB 2281- Banned Ethnic Studies

Lan Nguyen: Board of Trustees member, East Side Union High School District

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Hope for Ethnic Studies-California Assembly Bill 1750: “Bill to Promote Ethnic Studies in Public Schools”

-Would not immediately mandate a standardized Ethnic Studies curricula

-Invest $125,000 in bringing together experts to develop inclusive curricula

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San Francisco Unified School District

-Who they are

-Adopting a resolution to support Ethnic Studies in their schools

-Implementing Ethnic Studies across CA