The Alvin ISD Emergent Bilingual & Cultural Services Department believes in honoring the diversity of our students’ cultures and backgrounds. We believe in creating culturally responsive learning environments where all students are seen, valued, and respected.

• Ruby Bridges Goes to School – The True Story

• My Name Is Maria Isabel  by Alma Florada

• Separate is Never Equal – Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation

• We are Grateful

• Young Water Protectors…A Story about Standing Rock

• Hair Love by Matthew Cherry & Vashti Harrison

• My Family Divided

• Brown Boy Brown Boy What Can You Be?

• I Am Not A Number, by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

• Shining Star – The Anna May Wong Story

• Little Leaders – Bold Women in Black History

• Let It Shine – Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

• Something Happened in Our Town

• Twice Toward Justice

• As Fast As Words Could Fly

• The Stone Thrower, by Jael Ealey Richardson (Ages 4-9)

• Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years