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Chapter 5
Curriculum Transformation
Advice for Effective Curriculum Transformation
http://www.diversityweb.org/Digest/W97/advice.html
This article was published in Diversity Digest, the print and online journal of DiversityWeb. It provides useful starting points and steps for transforming higher education curricula at an institutional level.
Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education
http://www.muskegon-isd.k12.mi.us/multicultural/curriculum.htm
Prepared by the National Council for the Social Studies, this position statement lays out clear guidelines for the development and implementation of multicultural curricula. Though it is specific to social studies, the piece does a good job of framing the need for, and an approach for, an overall transformation of the curriculum.
Equity Checklist for Standards Based Classrooms
http://www.terc.edu/wge/checklist.html
Christina Perez shares a reflective checklist of concerns and considerations for equity in math classrooms.
Multicultural Supersite: Curriculum Transformation
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/curriculum.html
McGraw-Hill's Multicultural Supersite includes this collection of informational resources that help teachers and teacher educators develop theoretically and pragmatically sound conceptualizations for multicultural curriculum transformation. Among the resources available on the site are a "Q&A" through which the site author answers users' questions about multicultural curriculum and an article on steps for transforming curriculum.
National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women
http://pages.towson.edu/ncctrw/
Though the Center itself is primarily a research and consulting group, its site includes some useful resources such as a statement on "What Is Curriculum Transformation?" and short descriptions of some curriculum transformation projects in secondary schools.
Heroes and Holidays
Amelia Earhart—Biography
http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html
This graphic-heavy autobiographical site focuses on three aspects of Earhart's life: "The Early Years," "The Celebrity," and "The Last Flight." The creator of the site, identified simply as "Ellen," has also developed sites highlighting the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Gertrude Stein.
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
This site was created in conjunction with the Online Books Page to celebrate the contributions and voices of women in American literature. Full texts and biographies of women writers from around the world are included in this index.
Cesár E. Chávez
http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/index.html
The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors and Public Library collaboratively sponsor this set of resources, including curriculum plans, about the great labor leader.
Chief Sitting Bull
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm
Sitting Bull is introduced through PBS's biography and links.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
http://www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm
The National Park Service provides a biography of this activist for women's rights. It includes an exceptional collection of photographs as well.
John Brown Homepage
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html
The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities hosts a site about the white abolitionist who raided the federal armory in Harpers Ferry.
Malcolm X: A Research Site
http://www.brothermalcolm.net
The life of Malcolm X is explored and celebrated through a detailed timeline, a bibliography of his works and speeches, information about his family, and a list of links to other Malcolm X Web sites.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/
The Seattle Times hosts this tribute site that combines biographical information with ideas for celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and a small selection of teacher resources.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Stanford University offers a large collection of King's speeches, papers, autobiographical writings, and sermons.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html
This collection of biographical information, photographs, and other documents introduces the onetime political prisoner who became the president of South Africa.
Spectrum Biology: Harriet Tubman
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Tubman.html
Researcher Rachel Sahlman and artist Dick Strandberg collaborated on this biographical Web site about Harriet Tubman, the escaped former slave who helped run the Underground Railroad.
Susan B. Anthony
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blanthony.htm
About.com section editor Jone Johnson Lewis compiled this selection of resources about the U.S. suffragist. The site contains wonderful photographs, quotations, and a vetted list of links to related sites.
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
http://www.thurgoodmarshall.com/home.htm
Juan Williams's book of the same name provides most of the content for this site about the first African American Supreme Court justice. The site includes speeches, articles, interviews, and photographs.
Tipu Sultan
http://home.btconnect.com/tipusultan/
This site commemorates the life of the first Indian leader to fight for freedom from the English. The site includes a biography, a picture gallery, and a discussion forum.
Integration
African American Women: On-line Archival Collections
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Duke University hosts a collection of original documents including letters to and from slaves, photographs, and other scanned materials.
Asian-Nation
http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtml
This portal of historical and cultural information about Asian Americans includes news articles, discussion forums, and an exploration of many contemporary issues.
Children of the Camps: Internment History
http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/history/index.html
Based on the film documentary of the same name, Children of the Camps provides a photographic and narrative history of the experiences of the young people who comprised most of the 120,000 Japanese Americans interned after Pearl Harbor. The site also includes copies of important documents like Executive Order 9066, which permitted the internment for the sake of "national defense."
A Deeper Shade of History
http://www.seditionists.org/black/bhist.html
This site serves as a clearinghouse for Black History resources in a way that is not limited to Black History Month or special celebrations. The site includes a "This Week in Black History" feature.
Disability Social History Project
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/
This site represents a movement by people with disabilities to reclaim their history and to highlight the contributions of people from the disabilities community in the history of the world. Resources include a timeline and an index of related sites.
First Nations Histories
http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
This site provides an examination of history by and about First Nations peoples, challenging Eurocentric perspectives on an important thread of American history.
Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html
Bill Proudfoot offers a collection of letters written by Private Newton Robert Scott, Union clerk in Iowa during the Civil War. Fifteen letters are included in their entirety. The site also includes related links.
Transsexual, Transgender, and Intersex History
http://www.transhistory.org/
This site provides historical information by and about people whose gender identities do not fit neatly into the male/female dyad.
Women Come to the Front
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
The Library of Congress hosts this collection of exhibitions about women journalists and photographers who covered World War II.
Structural Reform
Been Here So Long
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/
The fruits of a 1930s project to document slave narratives are the basis of this Web site, hosted by the New Deal Network and built around seventeen such narratives. The site also includes background on the original project.
Civil War Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html
Duke University houses an index highlighting primary sources about the role of women in the Civil War. Resources include diaries, letters, documents, photographs, and prints.
Fourth World Documentation Project
http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/fwdp.html
The Center for World Indigenous Studies presents the online community with access to Fourth World documents and resources. This project is an online library of those documents and resources, all of which represent Indigenous People's struggles to be rightfully recognized in the international community. The project archives are divided into categories including "Tribal and Inter-Tribal Resolutions and Papers," "Internationally Focused Documents," "United Nations Documents," and "Treaties, Agreements, and Other Constructive Arrangements."
Louisiana Holocaust Survivors Homepage
http://www.tulane.edu/~so-inst/laholsur.html
Five Holocaust survivors offer their stories, memories, and experiences. This site can be a perfect supplement to textbook information on the Holocaust.
Mountain Voices
http://www.mountainvoices.org/
This site is a portal of the voices and stories of over three hundred people who live in mountainous regions around the world. Interviewees from Pakistan, Kenya, Poland, Ethiopia, Peru, and other nations share struggles and triumphs with culture, change, and reform.
My China: Chinese Culture
http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/China/proverb.html
Haiwang Yuan compiled and translated this collection of Chinese stories and proverbs and included them among the many resources of his My China site.
The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
http://adh.csd.sc.edu/sa/sa-table.html
Ann D. Gordon, Ann Pfau, Kimberly Banks, and Tamara Gaskell Miller compiled this collection of the early collaborative works of Stanton and Anthony, pioneers in the women's suffrage movement.
Social Action and Awareness
The Dakota Conflict of 1862
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/conflict/history.htm
Twenty-three 13- and 14-year-old students from Dakota Meadows Middle School collaborated on this Web site about a little-known battle between Native Americans and white settlers in Minnesota during, but not directly related to, the Civil War.
Human Rights Education Library
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) sponsors an extensive collection of curricular and teaching resources on local and global human rights concerns.
A More Perfect Union
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/index.html
Combining text and image media, A More Perfect Union encourages critical thinking about the relationship between human rights and the power of the state through an examination of Japanese American internment during World War II.
Never Again
http://www.africana.com/slavery/
Eric Ensey, a fifth-grade teacher, engaged his students in an in-depth examination of African slavery when they collaboratively decided that the three pages their textbook dedicated to the topic were inadequate. This Web site is the result of their work to learn more and share their findings.
Students Against Landmines
http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~sel/mine/
Over one hundred students from St. Elizabeth Catholic School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, contributed to the development of this site through which they lobby for the clearing of landmines from schoolyards in Afghanistan and Mozambique. The site also highlights similar work by students around the world.
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
Students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School created this site, built primarily around interviews they conducted with women who served in the armed forces during World War II.