![]() ![]() I was talking with a teacher during a recent workshop. Leaders still conceive of it as simply about social-emotional learning and not about cognitive development. Gloria Ladson-Billings reminds us that culturally responsive teaching is “ just good teaching.”Ģ. On several occasions, a group of teachers would be talking and someone would say, “But when I go back to regular teaching…” When we think of culturally responsive teaching as different from our “regular” instructional routine, we reinforce the mindset that it’s an add-on set of strategies. Teachers still think of CRT as separate from “regular” teaching. Here are five things I learned about how they think about culturally responsive teaching that might be getting in the way.ġ. Over the 10 months that followed, I crisscrossed the country and listened as teachers talked about CRT. So, I set out to learn what questions, misconceptions, and challenges teachers had related to it. As more and more teachers began reading it, I wanted to find out what was going on in classrooms around CRT. This same time last year, my book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain had been out only six weeks. I know you thought I’d gone on some walkabout. It was so exciting that it’s kept me away from this space for a while.
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