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Windows and Mirrors and Sliding Glass Doors: Ensuring Students See Themselves and Others in Literature

Posted on January 25, 2019 | by Guest Blogger

by Cathy Potter In 1990, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop published an essay about the importance of providing young readers with diverse books that reflect the “multicultural nature of the world” in which we live. In the essay, Dr. Bishop coined the phrase “Windows, Mirrors and Sliding Glass Doors” to explain how children see themselves in…

Resources for #WeNeedDiverseBooks

Posted on February 9, 2017 | by Marsha Rakestraw

by Marsha Rakestraw When I was a child, I read a lot of books. A lot. And other than the occasional title, like The Snowy Day, the people in all those books looked like me. White. Able-bodied. Heterosexual. Despite our growing population of children of color in the US — who now outnumber white students…