Culturally Responsive Teaching Online and In Person: An Action Planner for Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments

"With the onset of COVID-19, K-12 educators across the United States were thrown into online teaching and learning. In the translation of lesson plans into online instruction, teachers needed to attend to their students' academic and socioemotional needs. At the same time, while the nation was dealing with the pandemic, civil unrest was heightened. There is now a more pronounced focus on issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. Many teachers were not trained on how to address these issues in the classrooms. However, culturally responsive pedagogy can be used to provide teachers with a framework to guide their teaching of diverse learners. Moreover, with the one-year anniversary of schools shutting down, many schools are now starting to transitionto part-time and in-person learning, but keeping elements of online learning while needing to address issues of diversity. This book addresses both of these issues - incorporating equity and diversity across a range of learning environments. There are noresources currently available that address embedding culturally responsive teaching across in-person, online, and simultaneous learning settings. This book will provide teachers with a toolkit that will not only inspire them, but help them to translate their care and concern for students into their online classrooms. Culturally responsive teaching has enabled K-12 educators to foster inclusive classrooms and facilitate student learning. However, online teaching presents a new space for teachers to imagine how they might support and engage students across diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Because teachers will be charged with students in, in-person, online, and simultaneous learning environments, this book will offer K-12 educators demonstrative, inspirational, and practical approaches to culturally responsive instruction across any educational setting"--
An equitable, inclusive and practical application of culturally responsive teaching that transcends learning environmentsEducators in the 21st century are teaching diverse learners across a range of learning environments, while attending to critical issues related to equity, inclusion, and social justice. Now there’s a resource to help you merge the essential skills of embedding culturally responsive teaching practices into online and in person learning settings. Using the Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments (DELE) framework, you can build the knowledge, awareness, skills, and dispositions to pivot instruction to facilitate equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist learning experiences that transcend cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds—no matter where, when, or how your students do their learning.Combining an interactive workspace with teacher preparation and professional development, this book provides an action planner and toolkit for embedding culturally responsive teaching into online and in person instruction. Other features include: Demonstrative, inspirational, and culturally responsive practical approaches for online and in person educational settings Self-reflection questions, anti-bias exercises, and critical-thinking activities that support equity-mindedness Culturally sustaining checklist templates Links to additional responsive online resources, readings, and culturally relevant media Action plan templates to work through in each chapter Additional Call to Action practices to pursue after completing the book