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Culturally Responsive Teaching Culturally Responsive Teaching
Culturally responsive teaching is an assets-based approach to teaching MLs that leverages students’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds to support learning. This approach prioritizes learning about and building relationships with MLs, their families, and their communities.
Culturally responsive teaching is essential for MLs in that it creates space for students’ backgrounds and experiences to be understood and valued. It prioritizes an assets-based view of all students. Culturally responsive teaching also creates opportunities for MLs to share differing ideas and perspectives and learn from one another. These practices result in a safe and supportive learning environment for MLs while at the same time fostering high expectations of all students.
The SupportEd team frame their work in culturally responsive teaching around five guiding principles grounded by principle one: an assets-based approach to MLs and their families. Instructional practice is focused on supporting and challenging students, putting students at the center of the learning, and leveraging students’ linguistic and culturally backgrounds. Additionally, relationship building with MLs’ families and communities is prioritized. SupportEd provides various solutions and practical tools to help build your understanding and implementation of these five guiding principles of culturally responsive teaching. For a more detailed understanding of the guiding principles of culturally responsive teaching, check out chapter 1 of Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity
Self-Paced Learning Self-Paced Learning
Webinars Webinars
Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs: Tools for Equity Corwin Webinar Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs: Tools for Equity Corwin Webinar
• 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
Podcasts Podcasts

Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs with Tan Huynh Culturally Responsive Teaching for MLs with Tan Huynh
Sydney Snyder, PhD and Diane Staehr Fenner, PhD, 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.