Have a Good Life: Culturally Responsive Teaching with Zaretta Hammond Transformative Principal 156

Culturally Responsive Teaching with Zaretta Hammond Transformative Principal 156

Sunday, January 8, 2017 by jethrojones

Zaretta Hammond is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. You can find her on the web at Ready4rigor.com and on Twitter at @ready4rigor

Culturally responsive teaching is seen as classroom management or one-off - both of these are wrong. It is really about learning.
Dependent vs. Independent learners
Brains aren’t any different, but the system is stacked against them.
It’s about getting students to take control of their own learning.
Once learning is relevant, then students can be engaged.
Multi-cultural education vs. culturally responsive education.
Where to start (Thanks to @feedurmind_read) in culturally responsive teaching.
Leader to create the conversation to talk about our students.
Counter-narratives - acknowledge the dominant narratives. Not about preaching from the leader.
Trust undermines culturally responsive teaching.
Here’s the three things we believe about our X students.
What’s being said in the media about those students?
Teachers are mirroring what they are seeing in the media.
Starts with relational trust and creating counter-narratives.