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Hacking Culturally Inclusive Teaching: 8 Anti-racist Lessons that Help Teachers and Leaders Improve Equity in Education
Integrate student culture and language to create rich learning experiences for all
Culturally and linguistically diverse students often lack representation and inclusion in the classroom, hindering their academic success. Yet when teachers integrate even subtle culturally sustaining practices, they help all students understand our global community and situate themselves within it.
Education leader Kendra Nalubega-Booker shows step-by-step strategies and best practices that educators can integrate to support and embrace every learner. When you shine a light on the rich languages and cultures of your students, you create equity in education.
In Hacking Culturally Inclusive Teaching, you’ll discover how students’ languages and cultures as a learning resourceShift away from only using Standard English assessmentsIntegrate culturally relevant and sustaining materialsConnect learning to students’ lived experiencesCreate an honest, authentic learning environmentRead Hacking Culturally Inclusive Teaching today.
Culturally and linguistically diverse students often lack representation and inclusion in the classroom, hindering their academic success. Yet when teachers integrate even subtle culturally sustaining practices, they help all students understand our global community and situate themselves within it.
Education leader Kendra Nalubega-Booker shows step-by-step strategies and best practices that educators can integrate to support and embrace every learner. When you shine a light on the rich languages and cultures of your students, you create equity in education.
In Hacking Culturally Inclusive Teaching, you’ll discover how students’ languages and cultures as a learning resourceShift away from only using Standard English assessmentsIntegrate culturally relevant and sustaining materialsConnect learning to students’ lived experiencesCreate an honest, authentic learning environmentRead Hacking Culturally Inclusive Teaching today.
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 10, 2023
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January 10, 2026
I picked up Hacking Culturally Inclusive Teaching as a parent first, not as an educator. I wanted better language for how my kids were experiencing school—and honestly, for how I was supporting them at home.
I’ll admit, at first I wasn’t sure how much of this would translate outside of a classroom or professional development setting. A lot of books talk about equity in theory. This one doesn’t. It asks you to do things differently, immediately. That part stayed with me.
I started small. Homework time. Conversations at the dinner table. Letting my son explain how he understood something instead of correcting him too quickly. Shifting from “Did you get the right answer?” to “What made sense to you here?”
The change was noticeable. Not overnight, but clearly. He started engaging more. Asking better questions. Talking about school with more confidence. One night he said, almost offhand, “I like when school feels like me.” That stopped me.
What really surprised me was how naturally this book helped me move from parent to collaborator with my son’s teacher. Instead of showing up defensive or frustrated, I had language. We talked about classroom norms, participation, whose voices get centered. Not as accusations—but as shared responsibility.
That collaboration has grown into something bigger than my own child. This is a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom, and the shifts we made benefited everyone. Students are more engaged. Families feel more included. The room feels different.
Given the current climate—where anything touching culture, race, or identity gets flattened or labeled as “too much”—this book feels especially important. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t posture. It just shows, very clearly, what respectful, responsive teaching actually looks like.
This is an excellent toolkit for teachers and instructional leaders. But parents should know: this book is for you too. If you care about how your child is seen, how they learn, and how schools can do better without turning it into a fight, this book gives you a way in.
I’m grateful for it. And I wish more people would actually read it before deciding what it is—or isn’t.
I’ll admit, at first I wasn’t sure how much of this would translate outside of a classroom or professional development setting. A lot of books talk about equity in theory. This one doesn’t. It asks you to do things differently, immediately. That part stayed with me.
I started small. Homework time. Conversations at the dinner table. Letting my son explain how he understood something instead of correcting him too quickly. Shifting from “Did you get the right answer?” to “What made sense to you here?”
The change was noticeable. Not overnight, but clearly. He started engaging more. Asking better questions. Talking about school with more confidence. One night he said, almost offhand, “I like when school feels like me.” That stopped me.
What really surprised me was how naturally this book helped me move from parent to collaborator with my son’s teacher. Instead of showing up defensive or frustrated, I had language. We talked about classroom norms, participation, whose voices get centered. Not as accusations—but as shared responsibility.
That collaboration has grown into something bigger than my own child. This is a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom, and the shifts we made benefited everyone. Students are more engaged. Families feel more included. The room feels different.
Given the current climate—where anything touching culture, race, or identity gets flattened or labeled as “too much”—this book feels especially important. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t posture. It just shows, very clearly, what respectful, responsive teaching actually looks like.
This is an excellent toolkit for teachers and instructional leaders. But parents should know: this book is for you too. If you care about how your child is seen, how they learn, and how schools can do better without turning it into a fight, this book gives you a way in.
I’m grateful for it. And I wish more people would actually read it before deciding what it is—or isn’t.
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