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Chicago - our favorite city!

Megan Dowd Lambert is so brave - all alone on video. Hee hee

Whoop whoop!

Seattle - just heard about the old-time “seamstresses” in Seattle!

someone just asked if there was sound yet and I accidentally deleted the question. The answer is no; we all have our mics turned off at the moment

can you hear us now?

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I can hear you!

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Yay for having a parenting partner!

lucky, right? thanks, alice!

good to hear that you can hear us

I prefer to donate monthly by check. Is there an address and phone number for sending that check?

yes! hold on …

Hi Suzanne!

EmbraceRace c/o Proteus Fund, 15 Research Drive, Amherst, MA 01002

JennyKate? I will send shortly!

mute off, hannah

UofA and Simmons - where I got both my grad degrees :D Yay!

I'm only seeing a portion of the slide (it looks zoomed in)...is this happening for everyone?

Nevermind, fixed!

I can see the wholse slide

View options - at top

“Fit to screen"

I also follow Books for Littles FB page which is also wonderful!

are the links on the slideshow clickable?

I second Books for Littles

Good to know, I don’t know that resources

Good to know, Siobhan and Ellen. I don’t know that resources.

Christi!!!! so cool!

great addition, Michelle

Maggie - we have a tipsheet that will be sent to you. All those links are there

Thinking about how we can use these same approaches to discuss middle grade and YA novels with youth.

I teach middle grade and picture books to my elem ed students, Sandra. It would be great to explore that! I’ve been wanting to come up with a way to do that.

Looks like Lissa Paul's quetions would work for YA and middle grade too.

Thanks for sharing your personal experiences, Megan.

If anyone happens to be nearby, the Milwaukee Art Museum has a great exhibit about Dave the Potter and other artists of the African diaspora - totally suitable for children

Thanks. Need to get to questions now.

W.A.I.T.? Love it!

I love it too!

I’m also an ELL teacher, so I think it’s just a generally good tool to utilize in the classroom.

I think I did too, Sarah. it’s a very Allie thing to say.

we have a tipsheet for you!

we will send it to you within the week!

I love the idea of rereading! I wonder how many teachers and librarians think about that?

I bet they do if they’re parents ;-)

Great point Melissa, about co-creating meaning. Such an important stance for educators to take.

yup.

tru dat

YES!!! Read against books!!!!

I had to be reminded, too, that this particular generation of college students is the product of No Child Left Behind, and they were trained out of engaging with books and told to comprehend books

Hmm. interesting.

I've found it only takes a few class periods to reinvigorate many of them.

:-)

Yes, and to read against the text too. Change pronouns, etc.

I love the idea of "reading against books." How can we help teachers engage with that idea too? Thinking about my teenage son who reads against but faces teachers who shot down conversations.

Great session! Thank you all and Andrew for organizing this!

It requires that teachers be willing to not be the expert on everything

Sandra - looking forward to talking about these ideas in class this spring

"Child centered" - so critical. Thanks Megan for reminding us of that the need to do that!

I find the whole book approach and Visual Thinking Strategies hugely engaging for students. Generally I have to end converstaion because our time is up.

How about, until that child/class is ready?

I love it too and try to use it in my classes. I work with older learners, but these tips are very helpful for them too! I teach students from other countries (mostly Turkey), and because their cultures are so different, that a lot of the time students expect the teacher to feed them information and not engage. This can be frustrating. Any advice? In these political times we’ve had some great (but heartbreaking) discussion on islamophobia, but I don’t want to force my students to engage with their trauma.

Off limits books…I struggle with this because I want to encourage reading choice at the library as a parent. And that’s when my child always picks choice books that I struggle with. I end up changing words and saying why I don’t like some of the books. But, this is an area I think about all the time.

What age was he reading Tintin?

5th or so grade, Megan said

Thanks for the Tintin example.

thx

Joe Sutliff Sanders has some fantastic articles about the problems in Tintin books

Sarah, do you happen to have a title or a link for articles by Joe Sutliff Sanders?

Families of Color Monterey County also often does some great, detailed children’s books reviews!

He edited this book: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1895

I'm sure all of you know, but check out https://www.tolerance.org/ for a curriculm re: antibias curriculum.

Yes! Teaching Tolerance is wonderful!

https://socialjusticebooks.org/ (Teaching for Change) is also a great resource

Here’s the 2015 Diversity in Children’s Lit infographic: https://readingspark.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/picture-this-reflecting-diversity-in-childrens-book-publishing/

where we depicted that 12.5% of children’s books depict animals, inanimate objects, etc., using data compiled by the CCBC

"If you don't know, they're coded as white." Interesting.

Would you say that Families! Families Families! by Suzanne Lang? is an example of this?

Of course. Because white in our society is seen as the default.

Alice, in addition to coding, you can look up “white as neutral” or “white as raceless” for more on that

"white" as the normative default setting.

or “white as default"

But what about books that aren't about issues at all ... for instance "Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball" or something that isn't ... engaging in social issues, it's just parent-loves-baby?

Yes, Megan. We need to talk abou the industry and their role in this whole conversation.

I discussed this briefly on the Horn Book podcast, which you can find on any of your usual podcast sources (iTunes, Stitcher, etc)

I mean, I get that those are white-coded, but

Yes…white as faceless. I’ve had a challenging time teaching my white students that they have a race. (I’m a south asian brown teacher so race is a daily thing for me)

raceless

Thank you! Very interesting and helpful! Thank you Siobhan for letting me know about this webinar, I have more questions for you!

YES! MOSTLY ANIMAL!!

So glad you joined! Yes - let’s talk!

ARRRGGGHHH!

*I meant to say raceless…autocorrect!

Yes, that! SO MANY books about black kids by White authors and illustrators

and not enough by Black authors or illustrators

The stats are horrible. Yes, we need to focus on #ownvoices and who conrols the narrative!

Hear, hear!!

Can we have a convo about animals in books?

Somewhere sometime?

Thanks for a great discussion. So much to talk about!

YES, this is lovely.

thank you so much!

the Asian insider/outsider authorship blip was in 2013, 2014 I think, and has since gone back to more being on par with the other 3 groups

Thank you so much for this discussion.

thank you!

Thank you so much.

:D :D :D

Thank you!

Thank you!!

thanks, Sarah! I should have qualified that

Thank you!

This was amazing!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!

Thank you all so much for your time!! This was WONDERFUL!!

Thank you! This was fabulous!

This was wonderful.

Thank you, all!

Thanks M & A!! Great topic, once again>

Thank you, Hannah and Megan! :)

Thank you Hannah and Megan

Thank you!

Thank you!!!

Thank you

Thanks all!

Thank you all so much. This was such a valuable presentation!

You should be getting a check next Tuesday.

Thank you so much!

Will there be a list? :-)

Thank you so much! Can’t wait to share with my collegugs

(in the resources?)

i’d like to see more on racial coding next time.

100% interested

Yes, we have a list for you all that you’ll get soon!

I would love that

thank you!