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Culturally Responsive Teaching Culturally Responsive Teaching

What is culturally responsive teaching? Importance to MLs SupportEd’s approach

In order to teach academic language, you must be able to identify the language demands of the text and tasks MLs will be engaging with in the unit or lesson. SupportEd provides various solutions and practical tools to help build your understanding of academic language and strategies to support your MLs’ development of academic language. For a more detailed understanding of scaffolding for MLs, check out chapters 5 and 6 of Unlocking English Learners’ Potential.

Printables Printables

A Guide for Learning About Your EL Students

Use this tool to help you and your colleagues expand knowledge and leverage valuable information about your EL students. Explore items such as home languages, educational experiences, family backgrounds, and more to better understand each student and support their success within and beyond the classroom.

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A Checklist for Culturally Responsive Instruction

This checklist offers classroom and school look-fors in four areas that align to Staehr Fenner & Snyder’s (2017) four guidelines for culturally responsive instruction. We invite you and your colleagues to use this checklist as a collaborative tool to facilitate conversation around culturally responsive instruction in your school and set goals for improvement.

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Cultural Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Self

Tool to help you identify one area of strength and one area where you think you can improve your cultural awareness.

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SupportEd Lessons Unit Planning Tool

Use this lesson unit planning template to incorporate your knowledge of MLs in your classroom.

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Exploring Inequity in My Context

Explore and identify how inequities impact your own instructional context.

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Deficit-Based ML Policies and Solutions

Reflect and identify existing policies that reinforce deficit-based mindsets and brainstorm solutions for cultivating assets-based approaches to supporting your MLs.

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Books Books

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

In this innovative book, Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, replicable ways you can draw from students’ strengths and promote multilingual learners’ success within and beyond your own classroom walls.

Courses Courses

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners Book Study Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners Book Study

This self-paced book study is designed for educators looking for tools and strategies to supportthe implementation of culturally responsive teaching in their context.This professional development opportunity, applicable for administrators as well as ELD and content teachers, allows you to independently read and reflect on your learning.

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners (Application Course) Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners (Application Course)

In this self-paced Application Course, SupportEd experts share research and strategies to foster a culturally responsive approach to teaching multilingual learners (MLs). Explore the meaning of culture and its implications for teaching and learning and reflect on your school’s strengths in the implementation of culturally responsive teaching practices.

Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies and Tools (Collaborative Course) Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies and Tools (Collaborative Course)

This self-paced course, specifically designed for EDL and content teachers, administrators, and support staff working with MLs and their families, will provide you with a toolbox of strategies that you can implement in your context to foster culturally responsive teaching.

Webinars Webinars

Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs: Tools for Equity Corwin Webinar Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs: Tools for Equity Corwin Webinar

Culturally responsive teaching is an essential practice to equitably educate MLs. However, understanding what it looks like when implemented in schools and classrooms can be challenging to pin down. Together, we’ll:
• Discuss the importance of culturally responsive teaching in educating MLs
• Share our five guiding principles for integrating culturally responsive teaching for MLs and their families
• Explore look-fors, tools, and strategies to support the five guiding principles
• Reflect on how the culturally responsive teaching principles can be applied in your context

Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs with Tan Huynh Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs with Tan Huynh

Dr. Sydney Snyder (link to Syd bio) & Dr. Diane Staehr Fenner (link to Diane bio) share the five principles of culturally responsive teaching for Multilingual Learners with Tan Huynh. Tan Huynh is a career teacher, consultant, and author specializing in language acquisition and literacy development. Tan has taught students from fifth to tenth grade in public, private, charter, and international schools. He has servedas a language specialist and is currently a secondary social studies teacher.

Articles Articles

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners in a Virtual or Hybrid Setting: Where Do We Go From Here?

Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner
May 19, 2021
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