The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific ways to make lessons more culturally responsive and culturally sustaining? In Part One, Dr. Rocio del Castillo, Dr. Julia Stearns Cloat, Lisa ...

I had a student I will never forget, a young man who was destined to become the product of low expectations from educators who didn’t believe in his potential. He was told multiple times he didn’t ...

I was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, the youngest of eight children. When my family immigrated to the United States, I was only 5 years old and entered elementary school without knowing a ...

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(This is the final post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific ways to make lessons more culturally ...