Students' lived experiences and funds of knowledge are the foundation for the development of identity, purpose, intellect, and character.

Learning experiences reflect what students bring and are designed with their current knowledge and skills in mind.

Students' cognitive, physical, social and emotional development are all addressed in the design of learning environments and experiences to promote student success and autonomy.

Learning requires active intellectual engagement and appropriate support aligned to students' individual differences and needs.

• How do you get to know your students?

• How do you uncover each student's cultural background, heritage, language proficiency?

• What type of personal student records do you keep; how do you organize this information?

• What types of accommodations do you provide to non English speakers?

• How do you learn about each student's interests both in and out of the classroom?

• Do parents have a way to describe their student to you?

• What types of cultural groups represent your students? How do you incorporate this knowledge into your lesson planning?

• How do you ensure that you are following all IEP, 504, BIP, medial plans?

• What accommodations do you provide for accelerated learners?

• How do you contribute to a student's self-concept?

• What strategies do you utilize to incorporate to validate each student's cultural identify?

• How to you ensure that every student is challenged?

• Can you explain the theories of growth mindset and challenge based learning?

• How do you scaffold activities to challenge students?

• What is the difference between scaffolding and differentiation?

• What are my students doing outside of my classroom?

• How involved are the parents of each of my students and how do I ensure opportunities to connect to my classroom?

• Failing to consider your own personal bias.

• Grouping students together rather than getting to understand each student individually.

• Forgetting to involve parents' perceptions of their unique child.

• Ignoring mandates of students' accommodations and plans.

• Not being "cultural responsive" such as saying negative comments or making fun of a student's identify.

• Failing to identify the mindset of each student.

• Failing to uncover the background, knowledge and skills of every student.

• Forgetting that every student has a story outside of the classroom.

• Failing to involve parents as part of your classroom community.

• Become a member of a community group that focuses on culture.

• Lesson plan that celebrates holidays with a cultural lens.

• Sample documentation of an individual student (like a survey, questionnaire, parent input, etc.)

• Pictures of how you decorate your classroom to be an inclusive environment.

• Sample lesson plan that highlights accommodations for ESL or advanced students.

• Sample accommodated activity for IEP, 504 students.

• Sample activity that involves your parent community.

• Sample activity that promotes growth mindset of each student.

• Documentation of the background for a sample student that explores their prior skills, prior knowledge and current mindset.

• Sample lesson that includes scaffolded activities that challenge students appropriately.