Community of Practice Shared Resources

We are a group of educators and researchers dedicated to Anti-Racist and Culturally Relevant Teaching in the Science Classroom. This page acts as a living resource of the tools that we find useful in this work.

Antiracist teaching includes:

• Using our perceived influence/privilege to call out immediately and disrupt racism/racist systems within our own classroom/educational community.

• Holding conversations with everyone, not of any specific race, about these inequitable systems.

• Inspiring and encouraging others to take action after thoughtful reflection (both internally and externally) to implement meaningful changes that will work toward rebuilding liberated educational spaces.

Culturally Relevant teaching includes:

• Actively noticing, learning and integrating cultural backgrounds (experiences, values, traditions, language, country of origin) of students, local culture, and the culture of science into the classroom

• Nurturing student relationships in order to incorporate student identity and input into the learning experiences and environment, helping students to build their confidence and competence.

• Reflecting upon and adapting instructional strategies to reach both teacher and student learning goals, making the educational community accessible and inclusive.

• Tapping and leveraging students’ funds of knowledge, in order to help them make the connections between science and their daily life experiences.