The Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC) in partnership with the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education has developed the Standards and Promising Practices for Schools Educating Boys of Color Tool as a set of guidelines to assist school districts and educational leaders that seek to develop and enhance schools and programs serving boys of color.

Listed below are some of the guidelines as they relate to curriculum and instruction.  See the entire document here.

Curriculum & Instruction includes:

1. Culturally Relevant Instruction that:
a) Relates to the cultures, lives, and/or
experiences of boys of color, allowing them
to “see themselves” reflected in curricular
materials2
b) Is made “practical” – pertinent to the current
lives and futures of boys of color, especially
as they might relate to their socio-economic
backgrounds
c) Challenges “traditional” curricula that
excludes the contributions and perspectives
of racial/ethnic minority groups (in other
words, does not limit the boys’ learning to
the contributions of dominant, White, or
European groups)
d) Does not make assumptions about students
because of their races or ethnicities, accounts
for multiple perspectives on what is or is not
“relevant” to them as boys of color

2. Teachers should be careful not to make assumptions about the ways in which students from select groups will or will not “see themselves” reflected. Children should
be guided to critique and interrogate images selected to represent them and their racial/ethnic groups, as well as be encouraged to “see themselves” in materials that do
not match their experiences exactly (i.e. in literature representing characters/figures in other countries who have had similar life experiences).

Interesting blog about how African-American authors and books are marketed ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504125.html

I hadn't thought much about this... but she definitely has a point.  I'm just sayin ...

Here are some wonderful reading resources to check out this summer:

7 Ways to Prevent Summer Reading Slide

5 Ways to Get Boys to Read

*  The Boys Have Fallen Behind

How to Make Summer Reading Effective