Culturally Responsive Teaching
Learn more about how to use students’ customs, characteristics, experience, and perspectives as tools for better classroom instruction
What Is Culturally Responsive Teaching?
Here's what it means to be a culturally responsive teacher and where critical race theory ties in—or not.
States
A State Changed Anti-Bias Guidelines for Teachers After a Lawsuit. Will Others?
The lawsuit filed by a conservative law firm took issue with state guidelines on examining biases and diversifying curriculum.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
You Need to Understand Culturally Responsive Teaching Before You Can Do It
Too often, teachers focus solely on the content. They need to move beyond that and get out of their comfort zones.
Teaching
Opinion
How to Make Rigorous Curriculum Accessible to All 69´«Ã½
Culturally responsive teaching is research-based. Here's why that matters for the classroom.
English Learners
Amid Political Attacks on Ohio Immigrants, How 69´«Ã½ Can Support Newcomers
Former President Trump's anti-immigrant rumors shed light on how an Ohio town's schools have helped newcomers.
Equity & Diversity
Opinion
13 Ways Educators Get Culturally Responsive Teaching Wrong
Some teachers believe adding a few culturally relevant texts or activities to the existing curricula is sufficient. It's not.
Teaching
Opinion
Student Identity Is Complex. Here's How to Honor It
There are practices to help students, their families, and teachers develop a regard for themselves, each other, and the human experience.
School & District Management
Opinion
3 Steps for Culturally Competent Education Outside the Classroom
It’s not just all on teachers; the front office staff has a role to play in making schools more equitable.
Equity & Diversity
Q&A
The Lily Gladstone Effect: A Teacher Explains the Value of Indigenous Language Immersion
69´«Ã½ in the Browning public schools district in Montana engage in a Blackfoot language immersion program for all ages.
English Learners
Opinion
How to Connect With English-Language Newcomers. Teachers Share Their Favorite Lessons
Stock classrooms with books that reflect students’ lives, languages, and cultures and invite them into as yet unfamiliar worlds.
Teaching
Opinion
Making Culturally Responsive Teaching Work: Zaretta Hammond Corrects 3 Big Misconceptions
The author and coach explains how to avoid several common mistakes in culturally responsive teaching.
Equity & Diversity
Researchers Find Need for More High Quality, Culturally Relevant Curriculum
A new report from The Education Trust examines the limited complexity of representation in children's books deemed to be high quality.
Equity & Diversity
Video
A Native Community Revitalized a Language. Here’s How a School District Carries It On
Native students' well-being and grad rates improve when they're exposed to their cultural languages. How one district is making that happen.
Teaching
Opinion
The Big Questions Teachers Are Asking Themselves Right Now
Teachers have lots of questions, chief among them why there's such a mismatch between teacher-prep and school district needs.
Mathematics
What Parents Say Would Make Math Class More Relevant
Parents agreed that their children would be more likely to succeed in math classes that are relevant and engaging.