My guest today is Roberto Germán, director of middle school and creator of the educational consulting group 'The Multicultural Classroom.'

In today's episode we explore:

• the differences between multiculturalism vs. a multicultural classroom vs. social justice
• Roberto's journey from an extremely poor and under-performing school in Lawrence, MA to one of the wealthiest private boarding schools in the nation and how that experience inspired the work he does now
• what a multicultural classroom experience looks like for the white teacher with a variety of ethnicities and races in their classroom
• what a multicultural classroom experiences looks like for the white teacher in a predominately white school
• how to celebrate and honor the different cultures of your classroom without patronizing or stereotyping those cultures
• resources for educators wanting do dive further into teaching in a multicultural classroom

RESOURCES

• The Multicultural Classroom blog
• The Anti-Racist Reading Teacher Instruction Workbook | Lorena Germán
• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies | Django Paris
• Teaching Tolerance
• Facing History
• Embrace Race
• Montessori for Social Justice
• This Book is Anti-Racist | Tiffany Jewell
• Everyday Antiracism | Mica Pollock
• Courageous Conversations | The Pacific Group

CONNECT WITH ROBERTO GERMÁN

• The Multicultural Classroom
• Lorena Germán on Twitter | @nenagerman
• Lorena Germán on Instagram | @lorenagerman

CONNECT WITH THOM

• Twitter | @gibsonedu
• YouTube | /gibsonedu
• Instagram | @gibsoneducation
• Email | [email protected]

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