This is how we do it: Helping teachers understand culturally relevant pedagogy in diverse classrooms.

Try beginning to teach a diverse classroom with: "We must first learn our heritage.

Newly diverse classrooms often do not work by the old rules.

"They are in more diverse neighborhoods and more diverse classrooms than their parents grew up in."

There is therefore an increased possibility that monolingual teachers will find themselves in linguistically diverse classrooms.

In particular, she reflects on her own experiences as a white teacher of children of color and analyzes how she can best support and promote a racially diverse classroom.

Supporters counter that race is merely one of many considerations used in admissions, and that there is educational value in culturally diverse classrooms.

A "green" schoolyard not only allows for safe, free play, but can be used as a giant, diverse classroom, where hands-on activities integrate math, science and the language arts.

Middle-class black or Hispanic teachers can be as ill-prepared for inncer-city classrooms as middle-class whites, she said, and many of them will be entering diverse classrooms, too.

For their youthful target audience, who are products of diverse classrooms and consciousness-raising curricula, fraught identity politics are passé.