Session 6

SESSION 6
C H A P T E R S 8 - 9

OBJECTIVES

  • Understand what it means to be a culturally responsive practitioner in your classroom and school.

  • Make a commitment to transform individual practice based on your new knowledge.

  • Engage in Courageous Conversations around race and equity with fellow practitioners.

PRE-WORK

  • Chapters 8-9 of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (pp. 122-151)

  • Read through React | Reflect | Rethink and the Courageous Conversation (below)


SESSION OUTLINE

  • Welcome and Level Setting, and Community Launch

  • Listening and Learning

  • React | Reflect | Rethink

  • Courageous Conversation

  • Closing and Appreciations

React | Reflect | Rethink
Active Processing and Cognitive Routines:
How does your understand of active processing (124) and cognitive routines (131-134) change your practice as an educator or leader?

Student Agency and Voice:
How does your understanding of building student agency through discourse structures (148-150) change your practice as an educator or leader given the need to move away from a passive-receptive style that dominates the status quo?

Embracing Conscious Incompetence:
How does your understanding of embracing conscious incompetence (153) affect your work as a culturally responsive teacher or leader?

Courageous Conversation
Drafting a Vulnerability:
Use learnings and reflections from Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain to identify a "vulnerability"—an aspect of practice that you would like to work on.

Reflect on your Vulnerability

Fall 2022 Session Materials

Fall 2022 | 22-23 RRP CoP | Book Study | Session 6
Final Fall RRP Book Study 2022.mp4

Summer 2022 Session Materials

22-23 RRP CoP | Book Study | Session 6
RRP Summer Book Study Final.mp4