Cultural Education Webography Related to September 11, 2001

Alaska Native Knowledge Network http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/standards offers model standards for culturally responsive education for students, teachers, curriculum, and communities.

American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress provides two projects for educators and older students to consider replicating: September 11, 2001 Documentary Project, http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/nineeleven, and the Veterans Oral History Project, http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets

Arts International invited artists around the world to post responses to the terrorist attacks. Their site has photo galleries and video clips of Union Square memorials http://www.artsinternational.org/ai_condolence_page.htm

Ask ERIC: "Teaching Students about Terrorism and Related Resources" has many links http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/Subjects/Social_Studies/Current_Events/tragedy.html

Chicago's Old Town School for Music has posted titles for songs of hope http://www.oldtownschool.org/hopesongs.html

City Lore, http://www.citylore.org, has a photo exhibit of spontaneous shrines put up around New York City. Its People's Poetry Gathering site, http://www.peoplespoetry.org, invites contributions to a collaborative poem, "Crisis!" and its Place Matters site, http://placematters.net, offers a place for thoughts and dialogue about the place the twin towers hold in memory and history.

Coalition for Essential Schools has established a page of commentary and links http://www.essentialschools.org

Detroit Free Press has a "Guide to Arab American Culture" in a question-and-answer format http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs

Educators for Social Responsibility Metropolitan Area offers ideas and resources for teachers on 9/11 and the war, http://www.esrmetro.org

Facing History provides lessons on writing and remembering, buildings as metaphors, and ways to frame and conduct difficult discussions http://www.facinghistory.org/facing/fhao2.nsf

Healing Power of the Arts, Colorado Arts Council response to Columbine http://www.artslynx.org/heal

National Education Association offers a "Crisis Communications Guide and Toolkit" that includes "Managing Spontaneous Memorials and Donations" http://www.nea.org/crisis

National Council for the Social Studies provides "Teaching about Tragedy" http://www.ncss.org

National Association of School Psychologists provides "Cultural Perspectives on Trauma and critical Response" and "Memorials, Activities, Rituals" http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/crisis_0911.html

National Writing Project [http://writingproject.org/Resources/sept11.htm] has compiled a list of curricular and counseling links for educators, students and caregivers. They think broadly about how to support writing and the sharing of writing during the difficult times ahead.

New York City Division of Instructional Support has posted K-12 activities and strategies for dealing with prejudice and stereotyping http://www.nycenet.edu/dis/bias

PBS America Responds offers classroom and parent resources http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds

re:constructions: Reflections on Humanity and Media after a Tragedy is an MIT Comparative Media Studies Program site offering interesting perspectives and a study guide for older students and adults, including media analysis tools http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions

Teaching About Religion with a View to Diversity provides a worldview sampler, background information on a broad range of topics such as religious liberty, teaching about religion and the nonreligious worldview, civic responsibilities, bias http://www.teachingaboutreligion.org

Teaching for Change http://www.teachingforchange.org links to articles, teaching ideas, and student activities, including many Arab and Muslim resources.

Teaching Tolerance offers anti-bias information and articles on http://www.tolerance.org as well as activities on http://www.teachingtolerance.org

What Kids Can Do is a national nonprofit organization that documents the collaborative work of young people, teachers, and other adults on public projects. Their current web exhibit presents the artistic responses of New York City school children to the September 11th terrorist attacks. The exhibit, "Sketchbook, Students Rebuild Hope through Art" is available through http://www.whatkidscando.org/studentwork/sketchbook.html

WNET New York, Dealing with Tragedy http://www.thirteen.org/teach/tips.html

Women Make Movies offers free rental through 2001 on selected titles of films about the Middle East and Arab culture, pay shipping and handling only http://www.wmm.com