In the reading “Responding to Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Universal Design for Learning,” the author argues that combining these two instructional approaches is not enough to create tru […]
Reading The School Days of an Indian Girl connected strongly to the article by Gregory Cajete because both texts show how important culture, identity, and storytelling are in learning. Cajete explains that […]
This week’s reading, “Translanguaging to Teach,” really made me think about how a lot of classrooms still expect bilingual students to separate their languages, even though that is not how many of them natur […]
I really liked the examples you pointed out from the article. Using rap music to teach literacy is a great example of culturally relevant teaching because it connects learning to something students actually enjoy […]
One assumption that stood out to me in the readings is the idea that good teaching is not separate from students’ cultural identities and experiences. Gloria Ladson-Billings argues that culturally relevant t […]
When I went through this week’s readings, the first thing that stood out to me was how much technology has become part of our classrooms, but not always in ways that actually change how students learn. The article […]
In this course, I hope to continue growing as an educator by learning strategies that help students think more independently and engage deeply with their learning. As a current 5th-grade teacher, I plan to […]
Education as Liberation: Reflecting on Baldwin and Sealey-Ruiz Education is not neutral. That was the biggest idea that stayed with me after reading James Baldwin’s A Talk to Teachers and Yolanda S […]
