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Jeffrey Dessources presents ways school leaders and educators can do to ensure their schools and lessons are culturally responsive. Some of his ideas include raising authentic communication, collaboration and risk taking, innovating or reshaping the curriculum, and redefining the role of an educator.

Discusses curturally responsive teaching, describing it, how it can be applied in Math lessons such as use of recipes, use of small group collaboration, use of maniputives etc. The panelists also discuss some of the mistakes math teachers make when incorporating culturally responsive lessons.

The "Using Data to Promote Culturally Responsive Teaching" workshop series, hosted by the Institute of Education Sciences, focuses on integrating data literacy with culturally responsive teaching (CRT) to enhance educational equity. The first session introduces the concept of culturally responsive data literacy (CRDL), emphasizing the importance of understanding students' cultural backgrounds and experiences to inform teaching practices. It outlines a five-step iterative inquiry process for educators: identifying a problem, using data, transforming data into information, making decisions, and evaluating outcomes. The session also highlights the need for teacher preparation programs to incorporate CRDL into their curricula to better support diverse student populations.

Place-based history lessons engage high school students by connecting classroom content to local history and community landmarks. This approach deepens students' understanding of their surroundings and fosters a sense of belonging.

Dr. Ruanda Garth-McCullough and Dr. Richard Sebastian highlight how open educational resources (OER) can support culturally relevant teaching by allowing instructors to center diverse student experiences, build on prior knowledge, and challenge deficit-based ideologies. OER provides flexible, adaptable content that enables educators to create inclusive, equity-minded classrooms that reflect and affirm students' cultural identities.

​The Open University's OpenLearn Create platform offers educators guidance on integrating local community and environmental resources into their teaching. This approach enhances student engagement by connecting classroom learning with real-world experiences and diverse cultural perspectives

This brief discusses the intersection of cultural responsiveness and social and emotional learning (SEL), offering three opportunities for equity-focused SEL practices: self-awareness and social awareness; self-management and social management; and self-efficacy and social management. Each domain is separated into two categories: strategies to support students and strategies to support educators.

This article breaks down culturally responsive classrooms into three specificities: how they look, sound, and feel. Educators are encourage to analyze how their classroom is perceived (whether the materials present reflect student identities), how the classroom sounds (the language used and whether there are ongoing student and teacher conversations), and how the classroom feels, which should be safe and welcoming for all students.

The 7minute video is a work of American Federation of Teachers, demonstrating how teahers can help ELL students in the classrooms for a welcoming environment. It suggests creating comfortable environment, creating vocabularly accessible resources, being open to students cultures, etc.

Who Do You Call On? Rooting Out Implicit Bias," highlights how unconscious biases can influence classroom interactions, such as favoring certain students based on seating position or perceived background. To mitigate these biases, educators are encouraged to employ strategies like using participation cards, equity sticks, thumbs-up responses, and tactical pauses to ensure all students have equal opportunities to engage and contribute. ​

This blog post addresses ways to rethink and reimagine student assessments in order to make them more culturally responsive. Specific methods such as creating rubrics and collaborating with students and their families are discussed.

Would You Rather? Math is a free math resource for grades K-12 promoting critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, and classroom discussion based in real-world examples. Educators can incorporate activities provided by Would You Rather? Math as warm-ups, brain breaks, cool-downs, and more within any given curriculum, while simultaneously promoting student-student interaction and community building.