This document outlines the tenets of culturally responsive teaching including validating student experiences, being inclusive, having multidimensional content, empowering students, helping students grow, and enabling student independence. It promotes teaching approaches like contextualization and collaborative teaching to foster complex thinking. The advocacy project highlights integrating student differences and similarities into the curriculum. Quotes discuss what it means to be American in terms of opportunity and education as well as celebrating diverse cultures.

1. Culturally & Educationally Responsive Teaching Advocacy Poster By Lawtnee, Banhi, Noreen, Erin, Frank, & James Tenets of Culturally Responsive Teaching Validating: How do I make it "real"? Comprehensive: Am I an "all inclusive" teacher? Multidimensional: Are the components of my content diverse? Empowering: How effective am I? Transformative: Do my students leave me better than they came to me? Emancipating: Will my students succeed on their own? Must See! CNN, Coca-Cola Museum, ATL Aquarium, Stone Mountain Park Language Across Curriculum Making Meaning Contextualization Used at all levels of education and is the best way to create a cross-cultural and multilingual responsive environment. This is a process of constructing meaning through connections of actions and their context. Schools achieved this process by teaching students the rules, abstractions and verbal descriptions. “A classroom that is comprehensive and multidimensional fosters complex thinking skills in students” Teaching Complex Thinking Content Menu Group Presentation of Chapters 2 and 3 Oral Presentation of Summary of Chapter Anticipation/Reaction Guide: Chapter 2 & 3 Differentiation Menu: Tic Tac Toe Whole Group Activities Collaborative teaching is a dynamic process that educators constantly reconfigure to fit instructional plans and the learning needs of their students. Collaborative Productivity I am from poem… Critical Thinking Questions What is diversity & how has diversity changed over time with regard to education? We are a culturally diverse society in the United States. Yet, why are there educators who have not made attempts to culturally diversify their minds, attitudes and teaching strategies with regard to education? Advocacy Project Highlights Our differences and our similarities must be accommodate, beloved and integrated into the curriculum, instruction and assessment. In the book “Why Culture Counts”, Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra Darling have talked about how culture and poverty both affects teaching and learning. Oral History Quotes “To be American involves a lot of meanings. For me it means opportunity, especially with education. If I had stayed home in Jamaica I would not have been able to go as far in my education.” “Being an American is strictly about where you are born-not your culture, because Americans celebrate so many different cultures.” Engaging interaction which builds critical thinking skills and enhancing insight, hence deriving shared knowledge among parties. Dialogic Engagement