CRS Resource Repository

​The article emphasizes the importance of integrating community involvement into project-based learning (PBL). It suggests strategies such as having students shadow community experts, inviting professionals to teach skills, and organizing field trips to connect classroom learning with real-world experiences. These approaches aim to enhance student engagement, develop 21st-century skills, and create meaningful learning opportunities

A list of fifteen culturally responsive teaching strategies and their examples. It includes such strateies as gamifying lessons, learning about your students, interviewing the students, intergrating relevant word problems, using learning stations, bringing in guest speakers, among many others.

The article provides educators with practical strategies to enhance cultural responsiveness in social studies classrooms. These methods include crafting lessons that reflect students' cultural backgrounds, analyzing diverse perspectives and historical figures, and integrating culturally relevant materials to foster a more inclusive and engaging learning environment.

This comprehensive resource offers 20 culturally responsive strategies tailored for special education, helping educators create inclusive, supportive classrooms for diverse learners. It includes over 100 pages of actionable frameworks, tools, and justifications for building cultural awareness, differentiating instruction, and fostering equity and access.

​The video "highlights three educational platforms designed to teach children about diversity and inclusion:​ Sesame Street's "Coming Together" Initiative, PBS Kids and Queer Kid Stuff.

The article by Tasha Squires eplores three ways to make the the library more useful to multilingual students. These strategies include: Showing all students that they are welcome in the library; Ask students what formates they prefer, and validate their choices; Present diverse characters and formats in booktalks.

The article Authored by Ari Gerzon-Kessler discusses five culturally responsive family engagement strategies: Making communications accessible for all families; Making consistent efforts to learn about families' cultures, identities, beliefs, and rich histories; Making it easy for families to participate in events and share their input; Help all students and families see themselves reflected in the school community; and Help families support their children's learning at home.

​Edutopia's article "5 Keys to Challenging Implicit Bias" offers actionable strategies for educators to identify and address unconscious biases in the classroom.

Elizabeth Canavan writes about five ways to implement culturally relevant pedagogy in the Math classroom. She suggests that research on Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP), reflecting on one's own experience, adopting teaching strategies to highlight and support student voices in the classroom, beginning with units that connect to students' lives and building relationships with school communities are the five ways to implement culturally relevant pedagogy.

An article by Jenny Muniz in Education Policy discusses five benefits of culturally responsive teaching to students. These benefits include facilitates brain processing, motivates and engages students, cultivates critical thinking and problem solving skills, strengthens students racial and ethnic identities, and promotes a sense of safety and belonging.

This gives some of the strategies parents can use to help students assimilate Mathematics concepts in real life experiences. These strategies include, identifying math opportunities in everyday experiences, play board and card games with them, break the math down, step by step, draw connections from familiar experiences and avoid negative maths attitude.

This resource created by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) provides a list of 50 multicultural books for children. Accompanying the listed books are related resources, guides, and lessons to use in teaching these books.

This article discusses culturally responsive pedagogy strategies to boost students engagement. The author, Carine Marette, defines Culturally Responsive pedagogy as one which depends on student-centred teaching approach. She suggests inclusion, positive attitude, enhance meaning, and creating competence as some of the conditions necessary for culturally responsive teaching. She further discusses the six culturally responsive pedagogy strategies including: student-centric course; making room for differences, encouraging grou interaction in class, validating multiple perspectives in class, a culturally responsive curriculum and connecting school learning with students' real life experiences. She cocludes her article by highlighting som of the benefits of culturally responsive strategy i.e. facilitates brain processing, strengthens students' sense of belonging and identity, makes learning more meaningful for students and promotes a sense of safety and support among students.

Tatiane Rigonati recommends six book publications with pictures that offer strategies to students and inspire them to welcome and honor newcomer children's languages and culture. The books are; Where are You From by Yamile Saied Mendez, We Laugh Alike by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand; My Favorite Memories by Sepideh Sarihi; Mina Belongs Here by Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert; Tomatoes in My Lunchbox by Costantia Manoli; and My America by Karen Katz.