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Personal Learning Networks for Culturally Relevant Teaching
Personal Learning Networks for Culturally Relevant Teaching
Our team identified a large group of relevant accounts, blogs, networks, institutes, and other digital sources for a personalized learning network to assist you in culturally relevant practices in the classroom. Please see the subsections below and click on their drop-down arrow for a full list.
You can also access a handy PDF that has all of these resources in one place by clicking here.
Websites - Organizations/Institutions
Websites - Organizations/Institutions
The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
This website and group brings together researchers, analysts and community organizers to provide research, data, develop policies and create strategic support for justice within the educational movement. They specifically have focused on the creation of a Culturally Responsive Scorecard to help schools determine the extent of a schools cultural responsiveness in ELA curricula.
Education Week
Op-Eds, Articles, Blogs
Articles that are centered on what is going on in education across the world and the US. I use this as a place to find articles that help incentivize and reinvigorate my own emotions. Getting the perspective of what are global issues vs. those that are local.
The Center For Culturally Responsive Teaching And Learning
Website, Twitter
The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (CCRTL) exists for making cultural responsiveness a meaningful aspect of everyday life. Being culturally responsive is an approach to living life in a way that practices the validation and affirmation of different cultures for the purposes of moving beyond race and moving below the superficial focus on culture.
The Education Alliance, At Brown University
The Teaching Diverse Learners (TDL) website, is a resource dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with all learners. This website provides access to information -- publications, educational materials, and the work of experts in the field.
Edutopia
Edutopia is a foundation started by George Lucas that is dedicated to transforming K-12 education so that all students can acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to thrive in their studies, careers, and adult lives.
Websites - Blogs, Resources, Etc.
Websites - Blogs, Resources, Etc.
Cult of Pedagogy
Website/ Podcast
Created by a former Kentucky ELA teacher, this website has great articles that help provide direction on strategies for learning. In addition, you can get ideas that are tested and vetted to help you with classroom management, learning, and organization.
Impact in Tulsa - Equity in Education
Website, Articles, Blog
https://www.impacttulsa.org/impacttulsa-equity-in-education-defining-equity/
ImpactTulsa aligns the community to provide a pathway for all students to thrive through training, articles, outreach, programming, and other services dedicated to providing equitable education in their community and elsewhere.
Truth for Teachers
A former teacher equips teachers with materials that will help to increase productivity and learning. Throws in facets of real-life aspects to help facilitate learning in the culture/environment you are in.
Tolerance.org
Website, Blog, Twitter, etc.
https://www.tolerance.org/professional-development/culture-in-the-classroom
The mission of Tolerance.org is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school.
Anti-Defamation League
Website, blog, resources, training, etc.
The ADL website includes a blog, articles, and a Toolkit which all work to help equip teachers to tackle bias and social justice in their classrooms.
Facing History and Ourselves
Website, blogs, videos, etc.
Facinghistory.org acts as a wealth of resources to explore racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in classroom and our communities at large. The site has an extensive collection of powerful curricula that teachers can use as-is or adapt to their students' needs.
Zinn Education Project
Website, blog, and resources
Zinn Education Project offers resources and lessons to help teach a more inclusive version of U.S. history. Their free downloadable resources encourage critical thinking and active learning in search of a more accurate picture of American history.
Iowa College of Education, Social Justice Resources Website
Website, links, articles, and catalog of organizations and resources
https://education.uiowa.edu/social-justice-resources-k-12-teachers
This website, while built for use in Iowa schools, is available for free and catalogs a plethora of online resources, channels, blogs, and more that teachers can use for a multitude of social justice concepts - and it’s all in an easy-to-use search engine style set-up.
Kentucky-Based Twitter Accounts
Kentucky-Based Twitter Accounts
Delquan Dorsey
@DelQuan3
Mr. Dorsey is the JCPS DEP Community Engagement Coordinator and an advocate for culturally relevant practices in Louisville.
Dr. Aaron Thompson
Dr. Thompson is the 4th President at the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and an advocate for providing college and training opportunities to underprivileged students in Kentucky.
JCPS Diversity, Equity, and Poverty Department
@JCPSDEP1
The Jefferson County Board of Education (JCBE) is committed to a world-class school system that supports educational excellence regardless of ethnicity, gender, national origins, different abilities, or religion. Equitable academic programs and services that respond to the needs of a diverse student population and prepare all students for a changing the workplace within a global economy is essential.
Olivia Krauth
@oliviakrauth
Krauth is an education reporter for the Courier Journal in Kentucky and works actively to hold schools accountable for their equity and equality practices.
Ryan New
@JCPSSocStudies
Extremely active on Twitter, New is a Louisville social studies teacher who works to educate the community on the perspectives of different cultures in past and present events.
Allison Slone
@joallison_slone
Slone is a teacher, Kentucky Board of Education Ex Officio Member, member of KYREADS and KTITK, and a strong advocate for student advocacy and voice - especially on matters related to cultural equity.
Andrew Brennen
@aebrennen
https://twitter.com/aebrennen
Brennen is a massive social media advocate and supporter of youth-led movements around the state and world. He’s also a co-founder of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team and works to raise awareness of student advocacy in their own learning.
Prichard Committee
@prichardcom
The Prichard Committee has worked to study priority issues, inform the public and policymakers about best practices and engage citizens, business leaders, families, students, and other stakeholders in a shared mission to move Kentucky to the top tier of all states for education excellence and equity for all children, from their earliest years through postsecondary education.
National Twitter Accounts
National Twitter Accounts
Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice
@hope4college
The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice is redefining what it means to be a student-ready college, with a national movement centering #RealCollege students’ basic needs. Food, affordable housing, transportation, childcare, and mental health are central conditions for learning. Without those needs met, far too many students leave college in debt and without degrees.
Culturally Responsive Curations
This Twitter (and corresponding website) work to help educators ensure that how they teach reflects the students they teach. The account boasts that it is your one-stop-shop for culturally responsive resources.
CCRTL (THE CENTER FOR CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING)
@validateaffirm
CCRTL describes their organization as “for those who are on the journey to cultural responsiveness and believe in validating, affirming, building, and bridging” perspectives for those we teach and serve.
Zaretta Hammond, "Ready 4 Rigor"
@Ready4rigor
Hammond is a writer, educator, and literacy advocate who is passionate about empowering teachers with knowledge and tools to be culturally responsive. Her twitter includes a plethora of ongoing resources, links, and articles.
The Center for Educational Equity
This Twitter account is a part of the Teaching College at Columbia University and believes that children deserve an education that prepares them for college, careers, and civic participation.
#GrassrootsEd
This a hashtag rather than a specific Twitter account, but the idea behind this movement is providing equitable and quality education to everyone via public institutions rather than privatized opportunities.
Schott Foundation
@SchottFound
Schott Foundation is an education justice fund working to build a movement for equity and opportunity in public education.
#culturallyresponsive
Though not an actual account on Twitter, using #culturallyresponsive will lead you to a myriad of resources and accounts discussing this integral concept in teaching.
#Langchat
Weekly Twitter Chat, Thursday at 8 EST
I have connected with the best of the best across the country through this chat. And then it's fun when you get to meet in person at conferences!
EL Education
Website & Twitter
I have completely fallen in love with EL Education and their broader school network. There are so, so many good practices that their schools have seemed to master... I just want to steal all of their ideas.
YouTube Accounts
YouTube Accounts
Too Cool for Middle School
Instagram, YouTube
Middle School Social Studies/English teacher who strives to create students who practice social justice and educate other teachers about the importance of social justice in the classroom, mixing in other strategies and tips, too.
Nasia Bachman-Streitfield
Playlist on Culturally Responsive Teaching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbmyxZaBnhI&list=PLcG-lYdd8j1IgadlYbmzexLjE8bbf1d_h
This independent playlist organized by Bachman-Streitfild encompasses multiple videos of various perspectives that talk about general infusion of cultural responsiveness into classrooms.
Teaching Tolerance
Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations, and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. This channel includes videos on practices, activities, and more related to cultural acceptance in the classroom.
Magazines, Instagram, & Other Accounts
Magazines, Instagram, & Other Accounts
Teaching Spanish to Children
Facebook group
This group is run by one of my favorite bloggers Julie Speno of Mundo de Pepita. Lots of great ideas that are age-appropriate.
Incorporating Afro-Latino culture in the Spanish Classroom
Facebook group
This group has lots of great authentic resources that show the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.
The Language Educator
Print Magazine
Our national professional organization ACTFL puts out this quarterly magazine that always has great and timely articles on teaching World Languages and intercultural competence.
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