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Beyond celebrating: Debunking myth-perceptions to build strong diverse schools and communities.
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Innovative Voices in Education: Engaging Diverse CommunitiesEileen’s new book is out!


Innovative Voices in Education:

Engaging Diverse Communities

Insights, resources, and strategies
from 17 ground-breaking educators and community leaders
around the world.

Contact Eileen or call 703-644-3039 for a 20% discount!

Eileen is a frequent contributor to national and international media on issues that impact our diverse schools and communities. Here are several articles, commentaries and radio interviews you may find valuable in your work. To quote them, please email Eileen or call her at 703-644-3039.

Is Anyone Listening to Families’ Dreams? Schools can build partnerships with “invisible” parents through targeted programs that value their dreams and experiences.

Educational Leadership May 2011

Partnering with Parents and Families to Support Immigrant and Refugee Children at School

Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, Issue Brief June 2009

Helping immigrant and refugee students succeed: It’s not just what happens in the classroom

Article documenting that school-based mental health services which partner with families open doors to academic achievement.

A version of this article appears in November 2009 Kappan

Families: The Key to Ending College ‘Mismatch”

Education Week,  December 4, 2009

Building Partnerships with Immigrant Families Creating authentic two-way partnerships with immigrant families by transcending traditional parent involvement approahces

Educational Leadership, March 2007

Why are We Out to Destroy Our Diversity?

Washington Post, Outlook commentary, May 11, 2008

Bridging the Disconnect Between Educational Leaders and Diverse Families

BAM Radio Interview – Leadership Challenges

VolunTouring – Gaining Far More Than What is Given

NEA website,  April 2009

Finding a “Good School” – Beyond the Myths

National PTA Magazine, Our Children, September 2003

What we Owe Immigrant Children

Education Week – May 17, 2006

Building Partnerships with Immigrant Parents (pdf)

Educational Leadership, March 2007

Increasing Diversity in Rigorous Challenging Classes

Educational Leadership, June 2006

For copies of other articles, please contact us.

DEBUNKING THE MIDDLE-CLASS MYTH:

WHY DIVERSE SCHOOLS ARE GOOD FOR ALL KIDS

Excerpts and Reviews

EXCERPTS

Introduction, p. xxii

Schools with diverse student populations constantly battle myths that these schools are less desirable. The reality is that a diverse school can provide a first-class academic education. Learning comes alive when wisdom is shared not only by competent teachers and textbooks, but also by fellow students with life experiences and cultures that illuminate whole new worlds. With a teacher who encourages all students to speak their minds and listen to others, classroom discussions with students from varying backgrounds are rich and challenging, fostering critical thinking skills. Students learn there are a range of perspectives on issues, motivating them to study and thoughtfully define their own views. These schools provide world-class academic environments.

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REVIEWS

This is a forceful and straightforward support for public school diversity from a parent activist. Rarely do we find in print first-person parental accounts that forward the notion of diversity as a clear indicator of academic excellence for majority students. Free of educational jargon and hard-to-understand statistics, Kugler’s book is suitable for both popular and academic audiences. …This book is recommended for all parents, teachers, and professors of education who are looking for literature that chronicles health rather than pathology in public education. Summing Up: Essential. All levels.

American Library Association

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  • Debunking the Middle Class Myth: Why Diverse Schools are Good for All Kids (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), is changing the dialogue about diversity. Required reading in schools, universities, and community gatherings, it earned two national Book of the Year awards – from The National Association for Multicultural Education and from Delta Kappa Gamma International, the women educators’ honor society active in 14 countries.

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