Culturally Responsive Education

Culturally responsive schools exhibit the following traits:
• The curriculum content is inclusive, meaning it reflects the cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity of society and the world.
• Instructional and assessment practices build on the students' prior knowledge, culture, and language.
• Classroom practices stimulate students to construct knowledge, make meaning, and examine cultural biases and assumptions.
• Schoolwide beliefs and practices foster understanding and respect for cultural diversity, and celebrate the contributions of diverse groups.
• School programs and instructional practices draw from and integrate community and family language and culture, and help families and communities to support the students' academic success.
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