Educators, staff members, and district leadership must be able to acknowledge cultural differences and the impact of those differences on teaching and learning. LEAs use that knowledge to understand how perspectives rooted in culture, race, or ethnicity, can impact a student's ability to achieve. Towards that end, effective LEAs commit to implementing culturally responsive policies, practices, and procedures in order to create a culturally inclusive learning climate for all students.
Culturally Responsive Practices
Ethnic/Racial Disproportionality | School Climate & Academic Success | Parent Engagement | Inclusive Education | Teaching & Learning | Implicit Bias | Literature Reviews | Videos | Tools | Bibliography
Ethnic/Racial Disproportionality
- US DOE School Climate and Discipline
- Webinar Series from the Wisconsin DOE addressing Disproportionality in Special Education
School Climate & Academic Success
- Dr. Renae Azziz, Supporting Student Success through Culturally Responsive Practice
- Positive School Climate available at Colorado School Safety Resource Center
- Using School Climate Data to Promote Safe, Supportive Learning Environments
Parent Engagement
- Building Culturally Responsive Family-School Relationships by Ellen S. Amatea, University of Florida
Teaching and Learning
- Multiculturalism and teaching diversity in the classroom
- National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
- National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments
- NYU Steinhardt: Metropolitan Center for Urban Education
- PBIS Cultural Responsiveness Field Guide: Resources for Trainers and Coaches
- Teaching Diverse Learners
- Teaching Tolerance
Videos
- Implicit Bias, Lifelong Impact (how implicit bias impacts us)
- Implicit Bias Video Series from BruinX, the R&D unit within UCLA's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Lessons 1: Schemas discusses schemas, which are mental short-cuts that help us navigate the world around us.
- Lesson 2: Attitudes and Stereotypes explores the differences between two primary categories of automatic associations: attitudes and stereotypes.
- Lesson 3: Real World Consequences explores findings that implicit biases can influence our real world behavior.
- Lesson 4: Explicit v. Implicit Bias discusses the differences between explicit and implicit bias.
- Lesson 5: The IAT discusses the Implicit Association Test ("IAT") and the wealth of data it has generated.
- Lesson 6: Countermeasures discusses three primary strategies for countering implicit bias: (1) mindset; (2) de-biasing; (3) decoupling.
- What Would You Do? Bike Theft (White Guy, Black Guy, Pretty Girl)
Tools
- Culturally Responsive Teaching: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching All Students Equitably
- Guiding Principles: A Resource Guide for Improving School Climate and Discipline
Bibliography
- Adams, M., Bell, L.A., & Griffin, P. (2007). Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. New York City, NY: Routledge.
- Eber, L., Upreti, G. & Rose, J. (2010). Addressing Ethnic Disproportionality in School Discipline through Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Building Leadership, 17(8).
- Goodwin, A. L. & Hope, S. (2002). Culturally Responsive Parental Involvement: Concrete Understandings and Basic Strategies. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Available at: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED472940.pdf
- McKibben, S. (2016). Charting a Course to Transgender Inclusion. Education Update, 58(1), 2. Available at: http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/jan16/vol58/num01/Charting-a-Course-to-Transgender-Inclusion.aspx
- O’Hara, N., Munk, T. E., Reedy, K., and D’Agord, C. Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity: Addressing Success Gaps White Paper (Version 3.0). (2016). IDEA Data Center. Rockville, MD: Westat. Available at: https://ideadata.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017-09/success_gaps_white_paper.pdf