Classroom environment Suggestions
- Include images of Arab Americans in your classroom posters,
decorations, presentation graphics and course handouts.
- Consider displaying signs in Arabic as well as English.
Curricular Suggestions
- Comb through district course materials to detect and eliminate bigoted content.
- Actively integrate Arab and Arab American experiences, literature, history, and realities into your district’s curricula.
- Represent Arab and Arab American children’s, young adult, and adult literature in classroom and school libraries.
- Actively integrate Arab and Arab American experiences, literature, history, and realities into your district’s curricula.
- Represent Arab and Arab American children’s, young adult, and adult literature in classroom and school libraries.
Suggestions for Improving School Climate
- Question and contradict colleagues and administrators who engage in anti-Arab American conversation and practices.
- Via classroom rules and demeanor, make it clear that racist jokes, insinuations, caricatures, or epithets are not tolerated in your classroom. Encourage colleagues to do the same.
- Include cultural respect and prejudice-reduction in your school's vision statement. Celebrate the revision with a school-wide assembly.
- Via classroom rules and demeanor, make it clear that racist jokes, insinuations, caricatures, or epithets are not tolerated in your classroom. Encourage colleagues to do the same.
- Include cultural respect and prejudice-reduction in your school's vision statement. Celebrate the revision with a school-wide assembly.