Connecting students’ culture and backgrounds to the classroom isn’t just a nice thing to do—it can have a huge impact on keeping them engaged and making learning materials relevant.
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To learn more about culturally responsive teaching, check out these resources:
Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (Third Edition), Teachers College Press, 2018 https://www.tcpress.com/culturally-responsive-teaching-9780807758762
Zaretta Hammond, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Corwin Press, 2014 https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/culturally-responsive-teaching-and-the-brain/book241754
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question, Teachers College Press, 2021 https://www.tcpress.com/culturally-relevant-pedagogy-9780807765913
Django Paris and H. Samy Alim, editors, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World, Teachers College Press, 2017 https://www.tcpress.com/culturally-sustaining-pedagogies-9780807758335
For more strategies on culturally responsive teaching, visit: https://www.edutopia.org/topic/culturally-responsive-teaching
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