On behalf of the American Federation of Teachers, I'd like to welcome everyone to today's webinar. Picture books can help teach tough historical and current events. My name is Robin, Pucci and I will be your moderator before we begin. I'd like to thank today's virtual conference sponsor, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Natural History offers educational support through resource materials, virtual and in person programs and teacher loyalty passes. You can learn more about Carnegie Museum of Natural History. By clicking on their logo on the right side of your screen, we truly appreciate your support. Now let's watch a short video on how our webinars work. Hello. Hello everyone, welcome to our 2022 share my lesson virtual conference. My name is Kelly Booze, director of the American Federation of Teachers. Share my lesson before we begin. We'll go over a few housekeeping items. 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Ginny and I are so excited to be here today with you. We appreciate the time and all the work share. My lesson has made to make this kind of a really cool seamless effort. Thanks so much for putting in the chat from where everyone is from. I feel like we have almost every state represented, kind of from coast to coast and all Midwest. I am the education director in the Mountain States region which is. Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. And Jenny, it works with our. Main headquarters office in New York. So we kind of come from different parts of the country as well, so thanks for having us. We appreciate it very much and before we get started I wanna ask you a question for the poll. Not really a poll, but just in the chat. If you could, just I'm gonna jump right in. What was your? Or is your favorite children's book or picture book either when you remember from your childhood or one you read with a child or you read to a class and perhaps what you remember the most about the experience or what the impact of that book is or was or continues to be. If you could respond in the chat, we really want to have you all share some of your own experiences with books in these picture books. Because then other folks can get great ideas, not just from us, but from all of you from all over the country, which would be great. So. While you do that, I am going to do a quick and quick and dirty introduction of the ADL give you a little session flow of what we're going to do today. We always pack in a fair amount, so we're going to do some context setting weird first just to sort of why picture books. Sort of this idea of historical fiction versus narrative nonfiction. And then we're going to kind of jump right in about teaching tough topics, things to think about, and then ideas specifically about three books Ginny is going to go through some specific ideas about. Teaching ideas, and then we're going to round out with some ideas of how to select books, ages and stages to consider. And of course, resources. More resources and questions, so that's kind of the flow for today. Gives you some sense of that. Uhm, let's see. So if you don't know. ADL is an old civil rights anti hate organization founded in 1913 in response to really remember our own history history books. There was a significant rise, escalating climate of anti-Semitism during that period of time and so the mission has been the same mission since 1913 to stop the decimation of the Jewish people and the Secure justice and fair treatment to all. And we do that in many ways. Advocacy investigation as well as education. So we have different parts of the organization that do, and it all connects in a variety of ways. Jenny and I are excited to be on the education side when we provide training programs and resources. The ultimate goal is to assist people of all ages to challenge bias in themselves and others and in society. So that's kind of a quick. We have 26 regional offices and as I mentioned, I'm in the Denver office in Janice in New York. Alright, so we have our first poll. Question and I'm going to pause. I love these books, so thank you and I see Tikki Tikki Tembo. And these other books that I see here. That her Mama, Mama, some great ones Charlotte's web story for now. Thank you so much for sharing and hopefully other people can see that. Alright, have you ever used a picture book to open a unit or discussion about history or current event? Pretty simple, yes no, not sure. It's going to give you a moment to think through. If you've ever used again, we're talking about picture books. Different from chapter books or some other kinds of books. Open at history or current event. Pause. And if you have always, the chat is always open. 'cause I do think people love getting. Examples of what they've used so. The answer is yes for you. Please feel free to share what that book was about and perhaps even what unit or what historical context or topic you were trying to open. Giving tree I see greats. Too many that's awesome black snowman, Marvin K Mooney excellent, thank you. Llama llama red pajama love it. Well, we can sing that song yes all the time. It's so great. James and the Giant beach queen Esther. Great. Thank you so much. Alright checking with our moderator to see if we have. Any result? I love all the examples, so that's great. Oh excellent there so you all know this well and excited them to have you all share in the chat and in other ways of the kinds of things that you use them for. And add to the unspeakable Tulsa race massacre excellent, relatively new book. I feel like it's really great. I love it. Story of Ruby bridges great thank you so much for sharing and then again if it's a topic you know the history unit that you used it to open is great OK? Let me just check my slides here. Thanks so much for sharing and doing that. So the question is Gina, I'm going to move to that first slide of of. Why use picture books? This is a quick contact setting so many of you clearly have used them, so I'm gonna you know this already, but I wanna mention some things right that why do we use them is 'cause they supplement and complement primary and secondary sources. In many ways it engages young readers with fascinating events and in a format picture books. They're excited by familiar with it provides another kind of that visual, not just the auditory. Plan to engage with some of the. Topics, concepts. Help students connect emotionally with that narrative story. Write cultivates empathy in so many ways. And partly 'cause they can see it. And it kind of opens a door into those that kind of windows space around historical and current events. In an entry point, obviously into a longer discussions and it doesn't really compromise. Grade level rigor or text. So if you use it for secondary students. Right, it's really an interesting opportunity and they may think it's very elementary, but the opportunity that they often can be used. I've see why it's illustrated a certain way. What's the complexity of character that you see visually, not just in the in words, so it provides some really nice opportunity there. OK. So we're going to move on to the historical fiction versus not narrative nonfiction. Again, a little context setting. I love historical fiction as a as a K12 student in middle school and high school, and so I just wanna set these up in ways to know the difference is right is the story is for historical fiction is set in the past. It's a historical figure, perhaps. Or just characters that are set in this otherwise real time period. It's not necessarily the science fiction in magic, but it's. My kids also love, but this idea, these perhaps fictional characters in the real time setting and the narrative nonfiction, uses storytelling elements to explore a topic a certain period of time, a figure, and engage readers at just instead of like they were born. At this time they married at this time, or they kind of biography that simple biography. Dramatizes some of those pieces around. If it's characters, particularly or if it's an event. The Great Depression, let's say or. The Tulsa Massacre is a good example. Uses literary techniques as well and styles to tell a true story. Dialogue, characterization, description obviously biographies are a good example. Above all, though, there can be even in this. These picture books are in depth, rigorous and thorough, right? They're accurate in their research and responsible. Just remember, like we're talking here about history, which I will say often can be challenging. It's interesting. And since we're talking about that kind of this idea of representation to ensure we have that racially ethnically gender, all of those kinds of things are just as important in a fictional joy. 'cause sometimes the history doesn't bring that in some of those representation pieces around. Other stories that have nothing to do with Corvettes just to balance that out. Obviously in there. OK. Next alright, let me. I'm like flipping through chimney slides, all right. So what do we know? We know that. Teaching some of this historical events is really challenging right now, and the topics are often not easy. And so we just want you to think through again. Many of you do this already in many ways of how you set yourself up to do these topics, whether it's setting up in the syllabus front end of the. School year. War. As you go with families communities, your school administration, but at the idea that prepare yourself right. If you're feeling nervous, apprehensive, that's OK. They're not always the easiest thing. Uhm? But they also have the most opportunity for learning. Prepare yourself with background information. You know that about the topic so that you kind of can answer some of the questions you may not be able to answer all of the questions. Come up. Prepare yourself emotionally 'cause some of those things are really challenging. And your students may have that kind of reaction as well on their own feelings or personal experiences. Create an environment, obviously, where children feel comfortable expressing themselves, their curiosity. Is there questions kind of setting some norms? 'cause there are things that you know we don't know and they may not understand exactly. And so I I know in some schools and for some students they don't want to make mistakes, but the opportunity of setting up a culture in which. They can ask, kind of all those questions, provide background information that's always interesting. I think maps are always useful sometimes for certain historical events like this is where this took place. That kind of thing, right? All of those things about the background, you know, any background information. You might need to obviously scaffold some of those issues, but particularly issues around bias, unfairness, injustice, discrimination might need to be scaffolded prior. Especially whatever topic you're entering encourage questions. Obviously you know that. 'cause I think students respond to those open-ended kinds of things. It's hard, I know. Some people really want to sugarcoat history. It would be really, you know, thoughtful of your ages and stages of your students. You know your students or your youth well. Answer questions kind of as honestly and as simple as you can, particularly elementary. It's lesson. I've learned around, you know, answer the question that you were asked versus all the. 50 years of history prior to the event, and so trying to do that as well. They have. They always answer, you know they struggle with the Y and I often want you know those are really good questions. It's often how I answer so, but I don't always have the answer so. Uhm? Bias and prejudice are often ways to explain it. And then it shifts overtime with whatever age level you have of how you explain it and how in depth. You always say that the reason for injustice, sometimes complicated. It's complex and sometimes hard to understand. I know I've done that. How many? The alert of signs of distress concern, sadness, worry. Anger, all of those kinds of things that come from students when. Complexing and curious and it's hard to understand. Always be able to kind of listen, acknowledge feelings. All of those good things. It's fostering empathy. It's always important to emphasize these things happen to real people. And so I think. That's often I would get those questions even for my own kids. Is this really? Did this really happen? Yes, this really happened to real people. How do you think they felt? Those are kinds of those. Open ended questions to engage, maybe asking those kinds of questions. What do you think the experience was like for them? How, how did their loved ones feel? So those are some other ways. As Mr. Rogers, I may be dating myself, but I I remember watching Mr. Rogers a lot, but always that idea of focusing on the helpers. Child size actions. 'cause it always does help knowing there's some space there. And that there were examples of people that tried. They worked together, etc. So those are some important pieces. Hopefully many of them they've you've used. So the other thing we want to acknowledge is that we know and from all of you from all over the country. There have been lots of conversations at school boards. Legislatures, etc around book bans. In libraries specific schools we wanted to acknowledge that it is an important part of what's happening in the landscape right now. And it's hard. They are happening in some states more than others. Some have been legislated in different ways around, especially stage with anti critical race theory laws or decisive concepts. Laws that are happening. And there's really a chilling effect that's happening across the country. Come. It's been happening for centuries. Which they also want to acknowledge from different viewpoints to religious and cultural expression. There are many reasons given for why certain books are challenged and banned. These explanations have a lot much larger context, but it is important to note that in the wave of the anti CRT laws in 2020, particularly for the top ten challenged book lists, 6 out of 10 most challenged books were about race and. By author. Most of whom? The American Library Association is critical of book fans and they receive reports from libraries, schools and the media and attempts to ban books in communities across the country. And they actually produced the top 10 most challenged books every year. I was just at my own school board meeting. My hand eye. It all showed up in many ways and it was also about a lot of LGBTQ plus authors and. Characters and things like that as well. So you have some many choices, all of you sort of have those choices in your own state. Your school district, you know what the best. There's some choices you can. You can see your clear of those books that are being banned. You can decide to use those books and deal with the consequences. Or some plenty of educators use that choice. We can decide to. Talk with school staff, your department, your content area grade level team your administrators. So what your approach will be? Does somebody have your back just in case? Can engage students in critical thinking about history and current reality of book bans. Talk about it with your student. There's a we have a Lesson plan. The ADL has one we can support students, and having banned book clubs where students read and talk about banned book. And you can also report some of that banned books to the LA so. Just so you have some sense, we wanted to acknowledge that those were really important things that are happen. All over the. Great. Thanks Tara. Hi everyone, I'm Jenny spiegler. As Tara said I'm in New York and our National office and we're going to start my section. We're going to talk about a few specific books and just to say again, our focus is not on every kind of nonfiction and historical fiction and narrative nonfiction books. We focus on books about bias and justice, identity, diversity, 'cause those are the issues that we focus on in our work so. We're going to have another poll and the poll is and we don't have another here, which was an oversight on my part. But what historical or current event topics have you addressed, starting with or using a children's book and specifically a picture book? 'cause that's really what we're talking about, so there's lots of choices, Holocaust internment of Japanese American people, enslavement, voting rights, civil rights segregation, Native American residential schools, genocide. Immigrant and refugee immigrant and refugee experience racial justice LGBTQ plus. Rights, protest and activism, and sexism and gender inequities. And while you're doing that, if you want to. Sorry about that. If you want to put in the chat some of those books that you have. Used in your classroom. And if you haven't. That's fine too. We're going to learn about some of those in just about one minute, so. Just waiting for us to get all our responses and please Henry's freedom box. That's a great book that's on our books matter list. The butterfly. Where is the poll? Question the poll question should be on this slide. That you're seeing right now and you can just click right on there. They call us the enemy. Just reading aloud some of the books that you all shared. I just sent. That's a biography that's written in a really great way brave girl. So we'll just give it another minute or two. I want to make sure everybody has a chance to do the poll. Who wants to? Because I know that's tide to you getting credit for this session. Someone saying they're not seeing a slide? Sure, 'cause some people are so island born great book Malala's Magic Pencil. I don't know if our tech helpers can help with the fact that some people are not seeing the slide. Baseball saved us the butterfly. OK, let me read. What was said? The polls are located directly. In a box. So if you want to make your screen a little bigger, that may be part of the problem that you're not seeing the whole screen, I'm going to in 10 seconds, show the results of the poll. The unwanted stories of Syrian refugees. I don't know that one. That sounds great. OK so here are our responses and you could choose more than one. So many people. Let's see the top one is a civil rights and then we have segregation which is part of civil rights. The Holocaust, enslavement, voting rights, those are all kind of at the top of the list. We have genocide. LGBTQI, right, so it's pretty substantially, you know, you all have used some of these topics to to bring picture books into your classroom or the other way around. So what I'm going to do now is focus on three different genres, historical fiction, narrative, nonfiction, which touched on and current events, and for each of them I'm going to show you a few. We have our books matter online collection of children's literature. So here are some. Books that are historical fiction. The one that has the red outline which is fish for Jimmy. I'm going to go into a little more detail, but just to say there's many wonderful historical fiction books that you can use to teach about these topics. So here are examples of a book about voting rights about indigenous residential schools, about Japanese American internment, which we're going to go into more. The Holocaust, Juneteenth, and the end of enslavement, and the refugee and immigrant experience. So we're going to zoom. In a little bit, and if you really want to see if you want to make your screen a little bigger, you can see this book 'cause we're going to look at a few pages of it. So fish for Jimmy is a historical fiction book based on Japanese American internment. It's a book for ages 7 to 11, but you could definitely go a little lower and you can go a little higher depending on what you're doing in your classroom. Otherwise, for two brothers, and this is Taro, he's the older brother. And Jimmy is his younger brother. Everything changes when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the US went to war. The family was forced to leave their home and go to an internment camp. Younger brother Jimmy loses his appetite. So the older brother Taro, who you see here he takes matters into his own hands. He cares about his brother, he's worried, and so he he actually escapes and sneaks out every night and catches fish for Jimmy. The author. Katie yamasaki. Base the book on a true story from her family's history. Her great grandfather and she provides some historical context in the back of the book and those of you who use these books. You know, many of these books have about the topic and author's note and illustrators note in the back of the book, and that's really a great resource for you to learn more about that story or the whole time period. This book is, I love this book so much. It's such a good example of taking something an atrocity and something huge. And horrible and tragic in our history and and having that context. But making it relatable and paddle for a child. So you know, there's this connection for them, right? A child being hungry? Brotherly love trying to help, but then making the larger context about the lack of freedom about what internment camps were about, the injustice and the discrimination. So it's a really good example of that. And here is one part of the book when. The FBI comes to Jimmy and Toro in their parents house. Bang Bang Bang Mother answered the door to three men whose badges read FBI. The men told father that because he was Japanese, he posed a threat to America. He tried to explain that he loved living in America. He had a home and a vegetable market and a family here. But the men said he had to go with them. Then a couple pages later, Jimmy and Taro and the mother, who you don't see here are in the camp in the dusty internment camp. Jimmy lost his appetite, whose child is that the cook whispered, glancing at Jimmy, he hasn't eaten since we've been here. Mother bowed her head in shame and desperation. One thing I also really like about this book is that the expressions on the characters faces. There's a whole activity on like reading their faces and trying to understand what they're feeling at the moment that's done. Very well, the illustrator is amazing and then this is where Taro is taking matters into his own hands. He crept from shadow to shadow until he arrived at the fence. He glanced at the guards in the distance, impossible as it was, he feared they could hear his heart pounding in his chest. You see, he gets out and he is getting fish for Jimmy. So a few activity ideas and I just want to say we have all the books that I'm talking about today are books of the month for us and we create teaching guides, guide for teacher and a guide for parents. For each of these. So these activities are in there. You probably have other wonderful ideas. Every book discussion guide has. It has vocabulary discussion questions and at least three extension activities and ways to go deeper. So one thing you could do with older students is introduce them to executive Order 9066, which was Roosevelt Order in 1942, evacuating all persons who were deemed a threat for national security. So you can have them learn more about that. You can have them learn about and create a map of internment health camps around the US and talk about why they think those camps. Were built in those areas and do a little. It's an opportunity to also learn about Asian American history. So that is fish for Jimmy. Then we come to narrative nonfiction book ideas, so these are the books that are true. You know actual events that happen but told in a narrative way, so these books often use. They have plots they have setting. They have characters, they have themes. They often have, like beautiful literary devices like alliteration and metaphor and language. They're beautifully illustrated. So these books on this page and there's lots more. There are biography, some lament mentioned, I dissent. And that's about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But what's really interesting? 'cause it's not as Tara said, like a straight biography. This happened. And then this happened. It's it has a theme, it's all about her dissenting. It's about her dissenting as a child, dissenting when she was in law school, dissenting as a Supreme Court Justice. So it has a huck. And that's what's a little different about those. So here we have books that are about the history of protest, about school segregation, about labor rights, biographies, enslavement, civil rights, movement. The Tulsa Race Massacre and we're going to talk about unspeakable, which someone mentioned, and that is about the Tulsa race massacre. So just this book again. It's for ages 8 to 12, but in our discussion guide we have ways to talk about the book with younger children this would be 1 where you definitely would want to do scaffolding with not only background information but also some emotional scaffolding and getting kids ready to learn about it. Uhm? It could definitely extend older as well, and our guides share activities for children who are younger and children who are older. So this book tells the story. It is very new IT was. It was published last year and it won a lot of awards. It's incredible. It tells the story of the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. There's a larger context. If some of you know something called Red Summer of 1919, where there were many racial riots and white supremacist terrorism mostly in the South. So Tulsa has a Greenwood district that's an area of Tulsa, and it became known as Black Wall Street because it included and it was very unusual at the time thriving a thriving business district with many black owned businesses, a surrounding residential area. Are most of the 10,000 black Tulsa residents lived, so it was racially segregated. Many of the white residents resented that the black community had so much success and their own businesses and prosperity. So through a series of events in late May 1921, it led to this terrible massacre. White rioters looted and burned the Greenwood District, which is where mostly the black. Tulsa residents lived and 12 this is. This is a part of history that a lot of people don't know. I think you know when 2021 happened and it was the 100 year mark. There was a lot more attention about it and but it it was a part of history that a lot of people don't know. 1200 homes were destroyed, 35 city blocks were burned, 8000 people were left without a home, and more than 800 people were treated for injuries and historians now believe that as many as 300 people died. So it was a pretty monumental and important and terrible event. And you know, this book tells the story well. I'll just read a little bit Once Upon a time in Tulsa there was a community called Greenwood. Its residents descended from Black Indians from formerly enslaved people and from exit Exodus Dusters who invent who moved West in the late 1900s, fleeing the violence and racism of the segregated self. And then we see here we learn a little bit more about Greenwood. So many black businesses cropped up along a one mile stretch of Greenwood Ave that at that educator and business leaders Booker T Washington called the area. The ***** Wall Street of America. The name later became Black Wall Street, and the community kept thriving. So that shows you a little and I wanted to point this out and I mentioned this before. So many books like this have an author's note. This one special has an illustrators note and you can actually see this memorial, which I'll talk about in a second, but you can get this chock full of information in this I, you know, we all want to do our own research as well, but there's so much in here you can have young people read it. You can read it out loud. You can read it for your own background knowledge, so it's there's a wealth of information there. So a few ideas and these are in the discussion guide and this discussion guide has activities for young children for that middle age, middle grade and then high school. So one is to imagine and create your own reconciliation memorial, because in the book the book ends on a hopeful note, which is very helpful. It describes Reconciliation Park which was created to remember the victims of the Tulsa race massacre. It acknowledges responsibility and provides healing. So it's really beautiful. I there's a website you can go to and have like a virtual tour of it. So one idea of an activity is to think about something that happened in our history, about injustice and create your own reconciliation memorial like what would be what would be all those different elements. And there are some examples in in this one. You can have students write a letter or make a speech about Tulsa or another injustice, and you can of course learn more about this and what led to it. And the final area genre that I'm going to talk about our books about current events, which could be narrative nonfiction as well. Not exactly historical fiction 'cause they're happening right now, but again, there are so many great picture books that help explore current events with children. Here are just a few. You'll see books about LGBTQ, plus rights, immigration, and the DREAM Act. Bullying Black Lives Matter, the pandemic. Even we have a book about the pandemic called. Outside inside the news. In general, detention centers and more, we're going to zero in on a beautiful book called Dreamers by G Morales. This she is an illustrator first and she wrote this book. She is an immigrant herself and tells her immigration story in the back of the book. This book is has two versions in English and a Spanish version. It's for ages 4 to 8. It's beautifully illustrated because she is such a gifted illustrator. Oops, sorry. I don't want to get ahead of myself. It's a story about a woman who brings her young child to the US. You see them leaving on the first page, but you don't know where they're coming from, but they say when they get to the other side and when we made it to the other side, thirsty in awe, unable to go back, we became immigrants. So the book is about dreamers on 2 levels. And that's why it's so special. Because when you're talking about four year olds, you're talking about the dreams that they have for their life. You're talking about your dreams, your child dreams, the children in your classes, dreams. But of course, as kids get older, you might be talking about it on a different level of people who are dreamers. We refer to people who are young and undocumented and who were brought to the US as children who have lived here and gone to school here. And who are many cases identify as American. But they're not citizens. They are referred to as Dreamers. So as you know, if you're reading this with older kids and there's information in the discussion guide about this, how would you talk about that with with that age? So it's a great example of a book that can span many ages. That language is very simple. In a way, it's deep, but it's. There's not a lot of language, so the mother and child discover many things, some wonderful and welcoming, and some. Unfamiliar and scary and suspicious, they begin to learn English. They discover books. There's a whole thing about them discovering the library, and they think it's a miracle that people actually let you borrow books. And then they learn how to make their voices heard, which was a big part of a theme of the book it. And it's a story to remind us that we're all dreamers, and in a lot of ways that's what immigration is. It's about coming to a place because you have dreams for your future for your life. So just to show you a little bit about it, a little few pages that were so many things we didn't know unable to understand and afraid to speak. We made lots of mistakes. You see them in the fountain. To speak, to write, and to make our voices heard. Someday we will become something we have. We haven't even yet imagined, which I love that, but right now and then they talk about who they are now, so. Just to give you a few again ideas of how you could use this book, you could have children reflect on their own dreams for the future and for young children it might be what's going to happen at my birthday party and it month or two or what? What teacher? I'm hoping to get, or what hobby I want to take up or what I want to be when I grow up. So a lot of it, you know you can focus on dreams that we all have and you can connect that to why people would leave where they live to go somewhere. Well, you can have students learn more about immigration and who dreamers are, and you can have students conduct research about an act, an aspect of the, either immigration or refugee experience. There's lots of books out there about that, so those are our three highlighted books. But as you can see, there's so many wonderful books to choose from. So. Just I'm going to say a few words about this and then I'm going to turn it back to Tara. So when we think about selecting books, we shared some with you. Even though these books are about history and or biography or you know, terrible atrocity, you still want to have an engaging plot. You still want to have a story arc because we always want to make sure that these picture books are beautiful, compelling, teach something important, and that students are interested, right? They won't keep listening if they're not. Interested so you wanna make sure they're engaging and that's why rather than just more of a dry history book, which they might read for other purposes, these books we really want to pull them in that it's complex. It's not overly simplistic or moralistic with picture books. You always want the pictures to help tell the story and you really want to bring that to life for young people so you have them really study. You know the faces and what are they showing in the in the picture. That's really important. A diversity of characters and storylines depending on what the story is you want to have multifaceted characters who have conflict and who struggle because that's any good book has some kind of conflict and struggle that may be resolved or addressed in some way. We talked about having a compelling theme. Again, you want to have authentic author voices. We know that there is a lack of diversity of children's books and also a lack of diversity of. Authors these three books that I pointed out the authors each have a very deep connection to the group of people or to the story, so that's something to keep in mind. It doesn't mean that's gonna happen 100% of the time, and then also they don't have to have this, but many of these books have background information either within the text. So I, you know, reading the Tulsa Race massacre book, I learned a lot about I didn't know about Reconciliation Park. There were things I didn't know and then. In the back of the book there is often more information for you to learn from either the author or from the illustrator. And just one last quick thing in terms of choosing box. So there's two great ways. I mean, of course, you all probably have access to a lot of these resources, but the American Library Association every year gives out awards for literature and nonfiction, and it's some of the best literature. I always look at those awards, so the John Newbery Medal, the Caldecott, the credit Scott King Award, the Pura Belpre Award. These Stonewall Book Award and some of them are specifically around certain communities and identity groups and so looking at those lists are great and that link is there. So if you want to take a picture of that or it may have it in the chat somewhere and you can always contact your public or school librarian for additional help. Also subscribe to many children's literature newsletters. Tara is going to share some great websites that you might wanna get yourself on as well, so I'm gonna turn it back over to Tara. For the next section. Thanks to me, I will say the chat just continues to blow up, so I so appreciate every sharing. I I just think it's really important 'cause Jennie and I have some of those things but you all have a wealth and so it's awesome. So thank you for doing that. These are those websites, many of them people have actually shared in the chat. A great place to start is we need diverse books because many of these other websites are on there and they sort of separate them up by a different identity groups. Many of the War award lists that she mentioned and so the one. Other ones that are here, black necks and kidlit American Indian in children's literature. Color of us. There's a book called that, but there's a website so that's what you see. It also has numbers of different kinds of lists based on identity groups. So if you're looking for representation, particularly racial and ethnic, but then all the other different kinds of intersections of identity, it's really great. These are great resources. We mentioned Lee and low books. We don't have any connection to them, but they are the largest published in the US and diverse books with lots of nonfiction choices. So again, many of you shared lots of things, so that's great, but I wanted we wanted to give you some pieces, but again, we need diverse books is a great place to start, so we want to mention. Ages and stages. But I will say that you all know the youth that you work with and these are really general so I'm just gonna talk. Not really gonna talk through them. But obviously it's important to know the kind of developmental stages, and I know just in my own family I have kids that are five years apart and they are so different in where they were in stages and concepts even reading level. One asked questions a lot. The other one didn't. So right. You know your students well or the youth in your life. These aren't US static right? We know that too and there's so many things that that. Factors right that for students to discuss these issues. Maturity, exposure, experience reading levels, background knowledge. All that they have scaffolding before. But so these are some good basics. Around some of this age ages and stages as you think about which books choose checking those things and then what your students are ready for, and this gives you a sense of what's happening in that five year old level, right? Sort of kindergarten preschool kindergarten ish is that age and so I'm not gonna use the whole kind of read but you can see students are just beginning to understand their own identity, their individual and or group identity, particularly around ethnicity. Let's just say the range of differences and similarities between racial and ethnic. Groups, I think that's sort of happening as well and they start beginning to understand some of that scientific stuff. If you get a little deeper there, they ask a little few questions. They start just arranging that next slide, Jenny, you can 6 to 8 year olds Ray were kind of first grade. The 3rd, 4th grade ISH. Kind of recognizing. That group membership that it's their ethnicity, and how that fits into culture, history, local actions, right. It sort of starts getting a little bigger bridging into different connections and experience how some of their knowledge, though, is influenced by media like let's be if they're gamers at 8. Even Roblox, some of the more appropriate gaming. They start sort of seeing those kinds of deals, kind of starting fostering personal preferences. Friend groups, like all of those things, start happening. Can I start getting really influenced right by peers and in many ways and? But they start taking pride in their own identity and lots of different ways, and then the next ages and stages talking to kind of heading into middle school and that feels like a whole other section, right so? They're really interesting opportunity for those students. That kind of suddenly our understanding, historical concepts, concepts a little deeper. Asking a few more questions. That kind of shaping their attitude kind of recognizing, perhaps with the world says with their family, says what the media says. They sort of start arranging all of those things so. I know I have a 12 year old and an older child, but like the kinds of conversations we get to have are different. They understand cultural stereotypes, racial dominant, non dominant kinds of things. So. They can also start internalizing negative views right as well as positive, so there's all these are definitely not static. Like I said, it's quite dynamic so. Basics right, you know better than I do, but here's our last poll, I think. Hopefully you can see it. The question is how comfortable and confident are you using a picture book to help teach a tough topic? The choices are very confident, somewhat confident, OK. Could use more help or ideas, and the last one is I don't feel ready. From the previous poll, there was many of you that were using picture books, so my hope is that your the confidence level here is high. Because so many of you shared such great resources. I have been trying to scan for. Scan for questions. Jenny. I see one about this ages and stages and where the information came from. I just see that before as we wait for the poll. To close probably another or 15 seconds, I say that to Robin maybe. Close it in another. 10 ish seconds or so. Again, how comfortable or confident you using a picture book. I was trying to see if there was other questions so Jenny I might let you answer that one in the chat. Haven't seen lots of great sharing. OK. Couple more slides we have about 5 more minutes, OK? Oh, I see. Wait another 10 seconds. If you haven't answered the poll yet, or so getting there about 60% I think. Look at two more slides after. Nicole from Atlanta. Right? Great see. I think that first books is a great resource for types of books. You need great low prices. I love low prices. On the July see I'm just looking scanning while we're waiting for the pole alright. I think we're probably ready, great, very confident, somewhat confident, perfect. I think that tracks with the many of you that use picture books, so that's great news. Hopefully anybody that's in the kind of the last two choices. There's lots of activities, lots of websites, lots of books given by your fellow colleagues here on this webinar, OK? So Jenny, I'm gonna go to additional resources. We've mentioned it, and this is kind of a DL commercial. ADL resources. I will say that books matter is one of my favorite resources and what you will see here. It's a remarkable kids literature kind of bibliography if you will. And as you see here, there's we have graphic novels, chapter books, etc. If you also I happen to be a book giver to youth in my life and friends and things like that. I often go to these sort of sources and find books. That I get to find and give. I love doing picture books to even grade in high school like refugee Towers, falling number of books. My kids I've read so it's a great resource. But from books matter we also have books of the month. And Ginny had mentioned it earlier and this is a little deeper. Dive into the book of the month. It's a whole website, but you see that there's educator discussion guides that go with it. Vocabulary, activities. And there's a parent and family discussion guide, so that is really powerful and useful if you have that ability to kind of bring in the fuller whole family and school community. So those are really great resources. In the read Alouds, ADL has has has a for the last year and a half. Maybe their author read Alouds called changing the World One word at a time and we've included a lot of really cool authors. If you can see those faces, Jerry Craft Meg Medina, Kelly Yang, Kwame Alexander, Alex Gino, and just recently Jacqueline Woodson, it was their awesome students. Get to ask them questions. It's pretty fun. Anyway, so if you want you can get on kind of the email website and. See where the next one is, which I think is probably in the fall, so keep an eye out 'cause those are great. OK. I am done we. Had a few minutes for questions. I haven't seen a ton unless Robin you found some and if others have them, you can put them in the chat. Yep, so we have. Yeah we have about two minutes and so thank you for a great presentation and I think you answered a lot of the questions as you went. If anybody does have a question, you can put it in the Q&A widget. And we might if it's. 32nd question, but otherwise if you do have a question and we don't have time, you can put it in the Q&A and we can email it to the presenters to answer later. Or you can always visit their website For more information. But I think we are just at time and I don't have any participant questions in there so. I do want to thank people, people for sharing just 'cause I think the wealth of knowledge of people that have done it is great, so I appreciate that very much. Wrote down. Yeah, and I think Megan has put out the poll questions again in case anybody missed those earlier. You can have a couple seconds to to answer now if you missed it earlier, so I just want to thank our presenters and our audience for joining us. I don't know if the chat is saved. If we can send that out, because yeah, there was a lot of great resources. I don't know if Megan can answer that about the chat is something that gets shared. 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