Culturally Responsive Curriculum

Freedom Dream #1

We want the district to adopt a culturally responsive curriculum that affirms the identity of Black and Brown students.
Demands:
  • We demand current and relevant, asset based curricula that represent the students we teach, written by credible people with multiple lenses.
  • We demand primary resources.
  • We demand that teachers in DDSD use curriculum that highlights BIPOC as assets and combats the erasure of history.
  • We support the Black Student Union’s demand that Black studies be a mandatory course at the high school level.
  • We demand that our teaching staff have deep professional development to support the above demands!


Updates/Connections:

  • School Board Racial Equity Sub-Committee - working to develop equity lens to be used in decision making district-wide, including in selection of curriculum.

  • Black Studies course being added at high school (optional version of English).

  • Multiple groups examining elementary’s Fuel Ed curriculum for cultural unresponsiveness / insensitivity (CODE, union, etc.).

  • District Strategic Plan emphasizes equity and prioritizes culturally responsive curriculum and practice.

  • Connection to Freedom Dream #2 - PD must be provided not only in practices, but in content to equip teachers to teach adopted curriculum appropriately.