Culturally-Responsive Pedagogy
Being Learner-centered = Being Culturally Responsive
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Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Pedagogy
Getting Started Guide (click image)
What We're Reading
The Learning Accelerator
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
High-Quality Curriculum as a Transformation Tool for Equity "The design of curricula deeply affects how students experience school."
Be an Advocate for English Language Learners "It's time to break out of our professional boxes and take the message and methods of English learner advocacy to all educators and stakeholders in a school."
National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC)
What We're Doing
Culturally Responsive PBL Practice
From PBLWorks.org: This is the first in series of posts related to equity and PBL, which we introduced in this post about the Alliance for Excellent Education’s equity campaign to honor the 65th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools, Brown vs. Board of Education.
Move 1: Know Your Why
Move 2: Avoid the Danger of a Single Story
Move 3: Be Courageous and Robustly Vulnerable
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Social Justice Standards
TT-Social-Justice-Standards-June-2019.pdfFor more information about Teaching Tolerance or to download this guide, visit tolerance.org.
Per Teaching Tolerance: Founded in 1991, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation’s children. The program provides free educational materials, including a K-12 anti-bias curriculum: Perspectives for a Diverse America. Teaching Tolerance magazine is sent to over 400,000 educators, reaching nearly every school in the country. Tens of thousands of educators use the program’s film kits, and more than 7,000 schools participate in the annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day program.
Teaching Tolerance materials have won two Oscars, an Emmy and dozens of REVERE Awards from the Association of American Publishers, including two Golden Lamp Awards, the industry’s highest honor. The program’s website and social media pages offer thought-provoking news, conversation and support for educators who care about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools.
Resources
This is a culturally-responsive lesson structure proposed in Zaretta Hammond’s book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (2015): ignite, chunk, chew, and review.
READY-FOR-RIGOR_Final.pdf