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  • Kenneth C Hanrahan Elementary School
  • Saint Louis, MO
  • Nearly all 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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No one can truly become a productive citizen of America without first understanding what it means to be kind, respectful, and culturally competent. In our current world, my students see many opportunities for strife and division without ever really getting an opportunity to see the people behind the wars, politics, religious movements, and nonstop flashing news stories. But when students read about culturally diverse characters in literature and real people experiencing the same emotions and struggles as they do in informational texts, they get an opportunity to contemplate and expand their world view. They see the differences in culture, but they also get to see that a kid who is deaf has the same internal struggles as one who is not; that a student who lacks resources--black, white, or interracial--must face and overcome the same hurdles. My goal is to provide my students with books that they will enjoy--but that will open their eyes to the many lived experiences of children just like them who don't seem like them at first. Books like A Long Walk To Water and Boys Without Names show the extraordinary odds that children in other places experience while still dealing with the normal every day changes of growing up. Books like Five Flavors of Dumb and Inside Out and Back Again show students what it feels like to be differently-abled without shame or even sometimes trying to overcome it.

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No one can truly become a productive citizen of America without first understanding what it means to be kind, respectful, and culturally competent. In our current world, my students see many opportunities for strife and division without ever really getting an opportunity to see the people behind the wars, politics, religious movements, and nonstop flashing news stories. But when students read about culturally diverse characters in literature and real people experiencing the same emotions and struggles as they do in informational texts, they get an opportunity to contemplate and expand their world view. They see the differences in culture, but they also get to see that a kid who is deaf has the same internal struggles as one who is not; that a student who lacks resources--black, white, or interracial--must face and overcome the same hurdles. My goal is to provide my students with books that they will enjoy--but that will open their eyes to the many lived experiences of children just like them who don't seem like them at first. Books like A Long Walk To Water and Boys Without Names show the extraordinary odds that children in other places experience while still dealing with the normal every day changes of growing up. Books like Five Flavors of Dumb and Inside Out and Back Again show students what it feels like to be differently-abled without shame or even sometimes trying to overcome it.

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