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  • Crestview Elementary School
  • Cottage Grove, MN
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Due to the cultural climate taking place throughout Minnesota at this time, I want to celebrate the many gifts diversity brings to my kindergarten classroom by honoring who my students are and where they are from. One way to do that is by incorporating diverse literature in my classroom library while connecting the texts to social-emotional learning. I want my students to see themselves in the texts in our classroom and be able to accept differences among all people. My classroom is full of diverse children who come from various backgrounds. Many of our current read-aloud books lack diverse characters or involve animals as the main characters. For students to be able to connect, relate, and apply what they learn to their own lives, they need to see characters like themselves and hear story plots that are similar to their own lives in order to feel valued, validated, and affirmed.

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Due to the cultural climate taking place throughout Minnesota at this time, I want to celebrate the many gifts diversity brings to my kindergarten classroom by honoring who my students are and where they are from. One way to do that is by incorporating diverse literature in my classroom library while connecting the texts to social-emotional learning. I want my students to see themselves in the texts in our classroom and be able to accept differences among all people. My classroom is full of diverse children who come from various backgrounds. Many of our current read-aloud books lack diverse characters or involve animals as the main characters. For students to be able to connect, relate, and apply what they learn to their own lives, they need to see characters like themselves and hear story plots that are similar to their own lives in order to feel valued, validated, and affirmed.

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