Operationalize Culturally Responsive Practices

AWARENESS

• Understand the three levels of culture

• Recognize cultural archetypes of individualism and collectivism

• Understand how the brain learns context around race and language

• Know and own your cultural lens

• Recognize your brain's triggers around race and culture

• Broaden your interpretation of diverse students' learning behaviors

LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS

• Reimagine the student and teacher relationship as a partnership

• Take responsibility to reduce students' social-emotional stress from stereotype threats and microaggressions

• Balance giving students both care and push

• Help students cultivate a positive mindset and sense of self-efficacy

• Support each student to take greater ownership of his learning

• Give students language to talk about their learning moves

INFORMATION PROCESSING

• Provide appropriate challenges in order to stimulate brain growth to increase intellective capacity

• Help students process new content using methods from oral traditions

• Connect new content to culturally relevant examples and metaphors from students; community and everyday lives

• Provide students with authentic opportunities to process content

• Teacher students cognitive routines using the brain's natural learning systems

• Use formative assessments and feedback to increase intellective capacity

COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS

AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

• Create an environment that is intellectually and socially safe for learning

• Make space for student voice and agency

• Build classroom culture and learning around communal (sociocultural) talk and task structures

• Use classroom rituals and routines to support a culture of learning

• Use principles of restorative justice to manage conflicts and redirect negative behavior