Perhaps you have come across the term "culturally responsive teaching" in your work as an educator. Many schools and districts around the country are encouraging their teachers to become more familiar with culturally responsive teaching.

girl with brains standing in front of a city and a mountain
By: Charlene Willing McManis Traci Sorell

Regina Petit's family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known.

Child standing in waves holding a feather
By: Carole Lindstrom
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Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, Carole Lindstrom's bold and lyrical picture book We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguarde the Earth’s water.

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This poetry anthology, edited by Miranda Paul, explores a wide range of ways to be grateful (from gratitude for a puppy to gratitude for family to gratitude for the sky) with poems by a diverse group of contributors, including

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To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it.

a salmon and a bear
By: Brett D. Huson
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To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the sockeye salmon is more than just a source of food. Over its life cycle, it nourishes the very land and forests that the Skeena River runs through and where the Gitxsan make their home.

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Careful--you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written--whose next chapters are up to you. 

brightly colored hands raised in fists and peace signs
By: Amy Reed Julie Murphy Sandhya Menon Ellen Hopkins Amber Smith Nina LaCour Stephanie Kuehnert Sona Charaipotra Anna-Marie McLemore Brandy Colbert Martha Brockenbrough Jaye Robin Brown Maurene Goo Aisha Saeed Jenny Torres Sanchez Hannah Moskowitz Ilene I.W. Gregorio Tracy Deonn Walker Somaiya Daud Christine Day Alexandra Duncan

From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.

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