Adams & Iuzzini: Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Strategies in Designing Equitable Digital Learning Environments
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This document discusses culturally responsive teaching and learning strategies for an equitable digital learning environment. It introduces Achieving the Dream's network of over 4 million students across 40 states and outlines the goals of centering identity as a cognitive tool and visualizing strategies for equitable digital classrooms using Zaretta Hammond's framework. The framework includes four components: awareness of one's own cultural biases and student cultures; learning partnerships that empower students; information processing through connecting new concepts to student experiences; and building a community of learners through communal structures and a culture of learning.
Adams & Iuzzini: Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Strategies in Designing Equitable Digital Learning Environments
- 1. Centering Identity as a Cognitive Tool:: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Strategies in an Equitable Digital Learning Environment
- 2. Jon Iuzzini Director, Teaching & Learning Susan Adams Associate Director, Teaching & Learning
- 3. Our Network 4 Million Students 40 States and D.C Over 270 Colleges Over 60 Coaches ATD and our Network colleges will help all students—particularly the most underserved—realize substantial value from their postsecondary experience and their earned credentials, thereby strengthening their communities.
- 4. Our Fundamentals Framework Our Institutional Capacity Framework helps us integrate and align 7 essential capacities at all colleges to support a student- centered culture that promotes student success.
- 5. Intended Goals Participants will: • Explore how to position cultural knowledge as a cognitive tool in digital classrooms. • Visualize strategies that create equitable digital learning environments through the lens of Zaretta Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching Framework.
- 6. What is culturally responsive teaching?
- 7. Culturally Responsive TEACHING is… “An educator’s ability to recognize students’ cultural displays of learning and meaning making, 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. (Hammond, p. 15) -- Hammond (2014) Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Corwin Press
- 9. Culturally Responsive Teaching BUILDS on students’ prior knowledge. UNDERSTANDS there is more than one way of knowing. ENCOURAGES students to embrace their culture to fuel their learning. HIGHLIGHTS students’ strengths and empowers them.
- 10. • Differentiated Instruction • Inquiry Based Learning • Service Learning • Project Based Learning Culturally Responsive Teaching & Constructivist Teaching
- 11. A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching Zaretta Hammond, 2013 www.Ready4rigor.com
- 12. • Know and own your cultural bias • Understand the three levels of culture • Recognize cultural archetypes of individualism and collectivism • Understand how the brain learns • Acknowledge the socio-political context around race and language • Recognize your brain’s triggers around race and culture • Broaden your interpretation of culturally and linguistically diverse students’ learning behaviors Awareness
- 13. Hammond (2014), Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Corwin Press Levels of Culture
- 14. • Reimagine the student and teacher relationship as a partnership • Take responsibility to reduce students’ social- emotional stress from stereotype threat and microaggressions. • Balance giving students both care and push • Help students cultivate a positive mindset and sense of self-efficacy • Support each student to take greater ownership for their learning • Give students language to talk about their learning moves. Learning Partnerships
- 15. • Provide appropriate challenge in order to stimulate brain growth to increase intellective capacity (having power to understand) • Help students process new content using methods from oral traditions • Connect new content to culturally relevant examples and metaphors from students’ community and everyday lives • Provide students authentic opportunities to process content. • Teach students cognitive routines using the brain’s natural learning systems • Use formative assessments and feedback to increase intellective capacity. Information Processing
- 16. • Create an environment that is intellectually and socially safe for learning • Make space for student voice and agency. • Build classroom culture and learning around communal (sociocultural) talk and task structures • Use classroom rituals and routines to support a culture of learning • Use principles of restorative justice to manage conflicts and redirect behavior Community of Learners & Learning Environment
- 17. A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching Zaretta Hammond, 2013 www.Ready4rigor.com
- 18. Can you visualize how the elements of Zaretta Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching Framework play out in your digital classroom? https://padlet.com/sadams191/cen terequity ACTIVITY ACTIVITY
- 19. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY! Jon Iuzzini Director, Teaching & Learning jiuzzini@achievingthedream.org @joniuzzini Susan Adams Associate Director, Teaching & Learning sadams@achievingthedream.org @edtechinsight