Education Buzzwords Defined: What Is Culturally Responsive Teaching?

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:

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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