Episode notes
Zaretta Hammond defined culturally responsive teaching as . .
“An educator’s ability to recognize students’ cultural displays of learning and meaning making and respond positively and constructively with teaching moves that use cultural knowledge as a scaffold to connect what the student knows to new concepts and content in order to promote effective information processing. All the while, the educator understands the importance of being in a relationship and having a social-emotional connections to the student in order to create a safe space for learning” (Hammond, 2015, p. 15)
Keywords
racismsystemic racismracism in educationcritical race theorycultural responsive teachingculturally sustaining pedagogy