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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners

By Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner

$39.95 | Paperback

Our nation’s moment of reckoning with the deficit view of multilingual learners has arrived. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated long-standing inequities that stand in the way of MLs’ access to effective instruction. Recent events have also caused us to reflect on our place as educators within the intersection of race and language. In this innovative book, you’ll find practical, replicable ways you can draw from students’ strengths and promote multilingual learners’ success within and beyond your classroom. In this book you’ll find:

• Practical and printable tools that guide you on how to implement culturally responsive teaching in your context.

•  Case studies and reflection exercises to help identify implicit bias in your work and mitigate deficit-based thinking.

•  Authentic classroom video clips in each chapter to show you what culturally responsive teaching looks like in practice.

•  Hand-drawn sketch note graphics that spotlight key concepts and reinforce central themes with memorable illustrations.

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Chapters About the Authors Product Details
Chapter 1 - Why Culturally Responsive Teaching Matters

Chapter 2 - Building Cultural Competency

Chapter 3 - Operating from an Assets-Based Approach

Chapter 4 - Simultaneously Supporting and Challenging Students

Chapter 5 - Places Students at the Center of Learning

Chapter 6 - Leveraging Students’ Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds

Chapter 7 - Uniting Students’ schools, families, and Communities

Chapter 8 - Putting it all Together

Sydney Snyder, PhD,  Principal Associate at SupportEd, coaches ML educators and develops and facilitates interactive professional development for teachers of MLs. She also works with the SupportEd team to offer technical assistance to school districts and educational organizations. Dr. Snyder has extensive instructional experience and has worked in the field of English language development (ELD) for over 25 years. She started her teaching career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa. This experience ignited her passion for language teaching, culturally responsive instruction, and ML advocacy. Dr. Snyder is co-author of Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity and contributing author to Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall. She served as an English Teaching Fellow at Gadja Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She earned her Ph.D. in Multilingual/Multicultural Education at George Mason University and her M.A.T in TESOL at the School for International Training.

Diane Staehr Fenner, PhD, president and founder of SupportEd, established the company in 2011 as a way to serve educators who work to help multilingual learners (MLs) realize their full potential. Dr. Staehr Fenner is an author of six educational learning books. She is a frequent keynote presenter on ML education at conferences across North America. She spent a decade as an ESOL teacher, dual language assessment teacher, and ESOL assessment specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools, VA and taught English in Mexico and Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in Multilingual/Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Literacy at George Mason University. She earned her MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training and her Masters in German at Penn State University. She lives in Fairfax, VA with her husband and three school-age kids who learned math and science through Spanish in their public elementary school. Dr. Staehr Fenner grew up on a dairy farm in New York State’s Finger Lakes region and is a first-generation college graduate.

ISBN: 9781544390253

Release Date: February 2021

Page Count: 352

Publisher: Corwin

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Reviews Reviews

"It is not like me to finish a book in one sitting. I did with this book! I could see these activities in action with my staff. A value to staff and creating a multi-cultural school environment and culture of acceptance.”
Tricia Peña, EdD. Professor, Northern Arizona University, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education
“Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners is a must read for anyone in the field of education. The authors have done an outstanding job of helping the reader to recognize cultural bias as well as demonstrating how to overcome this bias so that all students can achieve success, regardless of their background. I highly recommend this book!”
Melissa Miller NBCT-EAScience, NGSS Writer, 6th Grade Science Instructor
"Given the growing anti-immigrationand Black Lives Matter Movements in the USA, I cannot imagine a better time to seriously consider the role of culture in our classrooms and how culture and teacher beliefs about their students and families ultimately hold the key to success for our multilingual learners. This book goes to the heart of these crucial issues and effectively advocates for assets-based approaches in our schools. This book has something for everyone: teachers, future teachers, and teacher leaders."
Tim Boals PhD, WIDA Founder and Director, WIDA at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research
"A relevant and research-based interactive text that guides educators through the process of becoming culturally responsive with multilingual learners. Using practical strategies such as case studies, video clips, and sketch notes, educators will be led through exercises inspiring them to become more reflective about their own culturally responsive teaching."
Ivannia Soto, PhD Director at the Institute for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching
"With an unflinching focus on equity, Snyder and Staehr Fenner offer an asset-focused, forward-looking, and nuanced text in service of multilingual learners, drawing from the most relevant and up-to-date sources. Intended for a broad andinclusive audience, Snyder and Staehr Fenner address the tensions and competing issues within the field, and offer pragmatic, attainable steps forward, with accessible explanations, interactive questions and planning guides, as well as video clips to highlight key constructs. This text is an outstanding resource for all those engaged in the education of multilingual learners."
Dr. Anita Bright Associate Professor, Portland State University
"And they have done it again...another invaluable resource for all educators. As an ESL teacher, coach, and teacher educator, this is going to be a go-to book for workshops, pre-service educators, and for professional development. This text is mindful and intentional in how it addresses so many aspects of culturally-responsive teaching, and the reflection questions are a beautiful addition for educators to self-examine their own practices. Ta bluh doh mah (thank you very much)."
Dr. Amy Hewett-Olatunde ESL Teacher, Teacher Educator, Professor SPPS/Hamline University/The University of St. Thomas
“Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner have succeeded in exploring the complex intersectionality of culture, equity and language. The result is this thoughtful, insightful book that gives educators real step-by-step tools and strategies to increase their professional learning and sensitivity. We are in a volatile time in our history, when the need for cross-cultural understanding and healing could not be greater.Snyder and Staehr Fenner meet educators where they are and guide them expertly and with understanding through the process of becoming self-aware and culturally-responsive.”
Giselle Lundy-Ponce Manager, Educational Rights and Social Justice Initiatives and Policy American Federation of Teachers

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