Cultural Corner Links

• Ideas for implementing events
  Includes events throughout the year, ideas to implement local events, transcripts of lectures; research, public concerns, war against terrorism, great multicultural programs, teaching tolerance and the general community.
  (by Esther MGP Viera)
  
• Multicultural Pavilion
  "Multicultural Pavilion" operated by Paul C. Gorski
  "Through the multicultural Pavilion I strive to provide recourse for educators, students and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education, facilitate opportunities for educator to work toward self awareness and development." This site contains research rooms, song lists, a listserv you can join and free download facts and resources and lesson helps. (by Oscar J. Ortiz)
  
• Creating safe and caring environments for children
  Dedicated to creating safe, caring and respectful environments for children. Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul and Mary trio is the name catcher for this program. The resource list to operate this character building unit is pretty impressive. An easy site to work with, contains free downloads for the program. You can find a great write up on this program in the 2005 issue of the NEA TODAY.
  (by Oscar J. Ortiz)
  
• Do's and don'ts in teaching about Native American history
  This link will connect you to a do's and don'ts page. If you teach anything about Native Americans and/or their history, this Web site is for you. It will give advice for teaching preschool students to high schoolers. This is a Web site for not just Native American History Month (November), but for all year long. (by Shauna Firmature-Cihacek)