Secondary Pathway Workshop: Fostering Cultural Diversity Through Incorporating Multicultural Literature in the Secondary ELA Curriculum

With the growing cultural and linguistic diversity of students comes the need to include culturally diverse literature in the curriculum in order to reflect students' cultural experiences and broaden and challenge their perspectives. In this workshop, participants will explore a rubric designed following an extensive analysis of the language found in national and state standards across the United States, which revealed inconsistencies in how cultural diversity in literature is constructed. Participants will explore how to use the rubric to select appropriate, high-quality multicultural literature, and will also discuss multiliteracy pedagogy and how the texts can be used in the classroom.