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Our TTSD MTSS triangle sits on top of a plate labeled trauma informed and culturally and community responsive. A common misconception is that these are additional initiatives in our district. Instead, they are a lens in which we must filter all our systems; if a practice isn't trauma-informed, equity centered, or community and culturally responsive, it have no place in our MTSS.
Our TTSD MTSS triangle sits on top of a plate labeled trauma informed and culturally and community responsive. A common misconception is that these are additional initiatives in our district. Instead, they are a lens in which we must filter all our systems; if a practice isn't trauma-informed, equity centered, or community and culturally responsive, it have no place in our MTSS.
Culturally and Community Responsive Resources
Culturally and Community Responsive Resources
Culturally Responsive
Culturally Responsive
A culturally responsive approach to Transformative SEL means the implicit recognition and incorporation of the cultural knowledge, experience, and ways of being and knowing of students in teaching, learning, and assessment. This includes identifying, valuing, and maintaining a high commitment to students’ cultural assets in instruction and assessment, as well as their diverse frames of reference that correspond to multifaceted cultural perspectives/experiences, and finally the classroom behaviors which can differ from White-centered cultural views of what qualifies as achievement or success. This means creating a climate that values and integrates linguistic and cultural ways of knowing and being so all students feel seen, affirmed, and valued.
Community Responsive
Community Responsive
A community responsive approach to Transformative SEL centers a community’s context and variety of lived experiences. It is inherently mindful of what writer Chimamanda Ngoza Adichie (TED, 2009) describes as, “The Danger of a Single Story,” which contributes to generalizations and assumptions about focal groups wherein culture is often conflated with and essentialized around race. Community refers to the cultural, political, social, spiritual, and economic spaces and places that shape student, staff, and family realities. A community responsive approach to Transformative SEL is equity-centered and, by default, culturally responsive and grounded in the particular needs and interests of the community it serves.
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