What does multicultural curriculum look like? High school and middle school? Elementary?

What are your thoughts?

Facing Realities

Seattle Public Schools Student Demographics

Enrollment October 2009 Student Count 46,523 May 2010 Student Count 46,440 Gender (October 2009) Male 23,855 51.3% Female 22,668 48.7% Race/Ethnicity (October 2009) American Indian/Alaskan Native 851 1.8% Asian 10,100 21.7% Asian/Pacific Islander 10,100 21.7% Black 9,704 20.9% Hispanic 5,362 11.5% White 20,506 44.1% Special Programs Free or Reduced-Price Meals (May 2010) 19,684 42.4% Special Education (May 2010) 6,656 14.3% Transitional Bilingual (May 2010) 5,612 12.1% Migrant (May 2010) 0 0.0% Section 504 (May 2010) 452 1.0% Foster Care (May 2010) 282 0.6% Other Information (more info) Unexcused Absence Rate (2009-10) 27,315 0.6% Annual Dropout Rate (2008-09) 909 7.1% On-Time Graduation Rate (2008-09) 2,409 70.1% Extended Graduation Rate (2008-09) 2,676 77.9%

What are some ideas you have to infuse multicultural education in your classroom?

Multiculturalism in the classroom

What's your stance? Western Traditionalists? Multiculturalists? Both?

The Levels Of Multicultural Education

Western Traditionalist

Social scientists, historians, and other scholars who argue that the European Western tradition should be at the center of the curriculum in the United States schools, colleges, and universities because of the cogent influences that Western ideas and ideals have had on the development of the United States and the world (Banks, 2008).

Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations. In this context, multiculturalists advocate extending equitable status to distinct ethnic and religious groups without promoting any specific ethnic, religious, and/or cultural community values as central.^[1]