This article defines diversity in the classroom, why it is important, and ways teachers and administrators can support their diverse classrooms. Ideas include re-evaluating teaching materials to identify where certain voices are missing, and making an effort to connect with students' families and the broader community.
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Role(s): School Leaders
Topic(s): Welcoming & Affirming Environment
Toolkit
This glossary provides a list of 24 terms designed to provide foundational context related to cultural diversity as well as represent some of the challenges that can arise in diverse school contexts (e.g., privilege, power differences, inequitable distribution of resources, and classism). These terms can help familiarize all stakeholders with CRS terms and help teachers incoporate CRS practices in the classroom.
Topic(s): Welcoming & Affirming Environment
Book Recommendation
The audio book by Muhamad Khalifa identifies tenets of culturally responsive school leadership. It assist school leaders in designing culturally responsive pedagogical tools that can be incorporated and adapted to advance students educational, social and cultural tneeds.
Topic(s): High Expectations & Rigorous Instruction, Ongoing Professional Learning
Framework
Outlines how school leaders can foster equity and inclusion by critically reflecting on their practices, developing culturally responsive teachers, and creating inclusive school environments. It emphasizes using community voices, equity audits, culturally responsive professional development, and local cultural contexts to challenge dominant narratives and uplift marginalized students, particularly through data-driven decisions, authentic relationships, and social justice leadership.
Topic(s): Ongoing Professional Learning
Research Article/Report
This research article by Muhamad A. Khalifa, Mark Anthony Gooden and James Earl Davis is a comprehensive review providing a framework for expanding body of literatre that seeks to make not only teaching, but rather the entire school environment, responsive to the school needs of minoritized students.. it describes such concepts as critical self-wareness, CRSL and teacher preparation, CRSL and school environments, and CRSL and community advocacy.
Topic(s): Inclusive Curriculum & Assessment, Ongoing Professional Learning
Video
The video presents strategies teachers can use to create a more inclusive learning environment. the strategies include; know the students, have a high academic expectations, display student cultures in the room, have a multicutural curriculum, incorporate visual aides, hear their stories, build relationship with parents, and get their names right.
Topic(s): High Expectations & Rigorous Instruction
Book Recommendation
This book by Zaretta Hammond draws on a cutting-edge nueroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsible instruction. In the three sections of the book, she includes information on how one's culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships. She also discusses ten key moves to build students' learners operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners. She also offers prompts for actions and valuable self-reflections.
Topic(s): Ongoing Professional Learning
Book Recommendation
Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity provides educators with practical strategies to create inclusive, affirming classrooms that honor the cultural and linguistic assets of multilingual students. The book emphasizes equity-focused teaching, offering tools to support language development while addressing systemic barriers that impact multilingual learners.
Topic(s): High Expectations & Rigorous Instruction
Tips/Checklist
To help teachers introduce culturally responsive teaching concepts and tactics into their classroom, this is a breakdown of culturally responsive teaching and ten examples of CRT being implemented in schools. These examples include deeply learning about students and their backgrounds, using students' cultures in lessons, experimenting with peer-to-peer teaching, and involving parents in lessons when possible.
Topic(s): Welcoming & Affirming Environment
Video
This is a video recordin of a virtual conference session hosted by Charles Mohler and Kristen DeRoche training Math teachers on Culturally responsive teaching. They discussed the concepts culture, responsiveness, school culture, culturl discontinuity,, cultural responsive teaching and other concepts. They discussed Berry's Model of Response, identifying multicultural components of US schools and the implications. Culturally responsive math teaching icludes cognitively engaging tasks, sourcing math inquiry from student culture and community, and outcmes that promote individual and collective ownership.
Topic(s): High Expectations & Rigorous Instruction, Ongoing Professional Learning
Tips/Checklist
This article introduces seven culturally responsive teaching tips that help facilitate a whole-child learning environment. These include tapping into student cultures, surveying the physical classroom environment, creating a student-centered classroom, pronouncing names correctly, learning a few words in students' native languages, communicating goals with students, and embracing an asset-based mindset.
Topic(s): Welcoming & Affirming Environment
Website
This American University blog post provides both an understanding of the benefits of culturally responsive teaching and ways to create a culturally responsive classroom. The methods described aim to build trust; encourage collaboration; improve communication; and create a supportive, respectful atmosphere where every student can thrive.
Topic(s): Inclusive Curriculum & Assessment
Research Article/Report
The article "Culturally Responsive Teaching Through a Historical Lens: Will History Repeat Itself?" by Deborah A. Harmon examines the evolution and significance of culturally responsive pedagogy, particularly in the context of African American education. It emphasizes the importance of integrating cultural knowledge, personal experiences, and historical perspectives into teaching practices to empower students and address educational inequities
Topic(s): Inclusive Curriculum & Assessment, Ongoing Professional Learning
Podcast
The article/podcasts Zarretta Hammond talks about four misconceptions about Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT). She discusses these four as follows: CRT is the same as Multicultural or Social Justice education, CRT must start with addressing implicit biases, CRT is all about building relationships and self esteem, and CRT is about choosing the right strategies.
Topic(s): Welcoming & Affirming Environment, Ongoing Professional Learning
Professional Learning
Marcus Guido writes about culturally responsive teaching in this article covering e description what CRT is, how it is implemented, conditions for creating a culturally responsive classroom and offers the fifteen strategies for doing so as summarized in the resource tool kit above.
Topic(s): Welcoming & Affirming Environment, Inclusive Curriculum & Assessment