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READY FOR RIGOR FRAMEWORK: THE FOUR PRACTICE AREAS OF CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHIN:
Practice Area One: Awareness Successfully teaching students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds—especially students from historically marginalized groups—involves more than just applying specialized teaching techniques. It means placing instruction within the larger sociopolitical context.
Locate and acknowledge their own sociopolitical position
Sharpen and tune their cultural lens
Learn to manage their own social-emotional response to student diversity
Practice Area Two: Learning Partnerships The second practice area focuses on building trust with students across differences so that the teacher is able to create a social-emotional partnership for deeper learning. Culturally responsive teachers take advantage of the fact that our brains are wired for connection. As they move through the work in this area, teachers build capacity to:
Establish an authentic connection with students that builds mutual trust and respect
Leverage the trust bond to help students rise to higher expectations
Give feedback in emotionally intelligent ways so students are able to take it in and act on it
Hold students to high standards while offering them new intellectual challenges
Practice Area Three: Information Processing The third practice area focuses on knowing how to strengthen and expend students’ intellective capacity so that they can engage in deeper, more complex learning.
Understand how culture impacts the brain’s information processing
Orchestrate learning so it builds student’s brain power in culturally congruent ways
Use brain-based information processing strategies common to oral cultures
Practice Area Four: Community Building In the fourth practice area, we focus on creating an environment that feels socially and intellectually safe for dependent learners to stretch themselves and take risks.
Integrate universal cultural elements and themes into the classroom
Use cultural practices and orientations to create a socially and intellectually safe space
Set up rituals and routines that reinforce self-directed learning and academic identity
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