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Unfortunately, we often see classroom libraries that group diverse books into categories that isolate or limit their use. Simply having a book bin labeled “cultures from around the world” or “black history month books” does not mean that a library is culturally responsive. I want my students to think critically by providing books that reflect their diversity, backgrounds, and the communities in which we live, while exposing them to new ideas and concepts. By providing students with this kind of literature, I am giving them the power to connect cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles to academic knowledge and intellectual tools in ways that legitimize what students already know.

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Unfortunately, we often see classroom libraries that group diverse books into categories that isolate or limit their use. Simply having a book bin labeled “cultures from around the world” or “black history month books” does not mean that a library is culturally responsive. I want my students to think critically by providing books that reflect their diversity, backgrounds, and the communities in which we live, while exposing them to new ideas and concepts. By providing students with this kind of literature, I am giving them the power to connect cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles to academic knowledge and intellectual tools in ways that legitimize what students already know.

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