Teaching and Promoting Diversity and Inclusion

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
–Mohandas Gandhi

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
–Albert Einstein

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual."
–Albert Einstein

Almost 23 years ago, Andrew Kutt founded Oneness-Family School based on the principles of inclusion, peace and harmony and a recognition that education is fundamental in advancing these causes. Today, Oneness appreciates and embraces the diversity of our local and global community and recognizes that it is a key component of achieving many of the School's founding principles.

In furtherance of our school’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and embracing our world community, OFS has developed a diversity commitee to ensure that the school's curriculum, culture and operational plans fulfill the school's mission to celebrate and reflect the diversity of our human race in all its forms (e.g., race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, physical attributes, sexual orientation, socio-economic, etc.). Please click here for suggested readings for both adults and children, as well as local places to go as a family that may help broaden your child's view of the world.

Recommended Reading
Suggested Books for Adults:

• Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time), Claude M. Steele (author), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Series Editor)
• I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, Marguerite A. Wright (author)
• “Why Are All the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, Beverly Daniel Tatum

Books for Children:

• We’re Different, We’re the Same (Sesame Street), Bobbi Kates (author), Joe Mathieu (illustrator)
• I Love My Hair, Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (author), E.B. Lewis (illustrator)
• Colors of Us, Karen Katz (author)
• Whoever You Are, Mem Fox (author), Leslie Staub (illustrator)
• All the Colors of the Earth, Sheila Hamanaka (author)
• Let’s Talk About Race, Julius Lester (author), Karen Barbour (illustrator)

Local Places To Go
Places to go and things to do with children to help broaden their world view.

• African American Civil War Memorial and Museum 
  Exhibits the finest examples of traditional and contemporary art from the entire continent of Africa.
• Culture Kids DC
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site 
• Heritage Trails
  • African American Heritage Trail
  • Civil War to Civil Rights: Downtown Heritage Trail
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 
  The only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history and culture.
• Smithsonian Museum of African Art
  Exhibits the finest examples of traditional and contemporary art from the entire continent of Africa.
• Smithsonian American Indian Museum
  Home to one of the largest and most diverse collections of Native art and historical and cultural objects; exhibitions are designed in collaboration with Native communities from across the hemisphere.
• Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
  Examines, documents, and interprets the impact of historical and contemporary social issues on urban communities.
• Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
  Features both permanent and temporary exhibitions of Asian art from ancient times to contemporary.
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
  Dedicated exclusively to the exhibition, preservation, and acquisition of works by women artists of all nationalities and periods.
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  Devoted to the scientific, cultural, social, technological, and political development of the United States.

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