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6 Dynamic Scholars You Should Know to Increase Capacity for Your Equity Journey

 Providing information and strategies and examples of how to create a learning space that centers equity, celebrates diversity, and affirms culture is the central focus of this piece of the internet.  Helping you develop the type of learning space that you desire and your students deserve is a privilege and an honor. It matters …

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Lessons with Impact Series: Can math really be culturally relevant? Three Tips for success

A culturally relevant math class? Indeed, my friend, it can. There is often a misconception that math classes can’t be culturally relevant or shouldn’t be culturally relevant. It should be all about the numbers. There is no place for culture. I think this is because our definition of culture is so narrow. If we were …

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What is Culture? How can it help unlock exciting and remarkable student Potential?

What do you think of when you hear the word culture?  When I think about the word culture, I imagine a network of all the individual pieces that make up a person’s life story. I think of the cultural traditions and beliefs and practices of different people that make our world beautiful.  Culture is all …

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How to Use Diverse Picture Books in the Middle School Classroom

Diverse picture books in middle school? Yep! People often associate picture books with preschool and elementary school, but they are a powerful resource in the middle school classroom as well. Picture books often discuss more challenging topics in very simple ways. In addition, the pictures help students better understand and visualize the concepts being discussed.  …

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How to Design Dynamic Culturally Responsive Lessons

Are you ready to design culturally responsive lessons, but are not quite sure where to start? Trust me, you are not alone. The good news is that today, I am going to pull up a (virtual) chair beside you and we will talk through a few strategies together. Excited yet? Me too. A Framework to …

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6 Ways to Create a Culturally Responsive Classroom

As an educator and a mother of five children, I strive daily toward intentionality in my actions, in the choices I make, and with the words I use. This is completely contradictory to the age old saying, “Do what I say and NOT what I do.” For this reason, I not only strive to have …

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