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A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction
The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning
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The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learning
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Paperback, 192 pages
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December 1st 2014
by Corwin Publishers
(first published November 25th 2014)
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If you teach, read this book. If you are white and work with anyone of another race, read this book. If you are middle class or above and ever interact with anyone in the working class or working poor, read this book. If you have read Buddha's Brain and want to know how to apply it to ed work, read this book. If you are working on mindfulness, read this book. If you want to build productive relationships with students so they can learn more with you and succeed in college and/or career, read thi
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It's hard to write a book on culturally responsive teaching. I'm not quite sure what an excellent one would look like but this one also seemed a bit too... "fluffy" for my taste. For example, there is no way I would do a "verbal battle"/ "trash talk" in my class to capitalize on African American culture, even if I wasn't teaching math.
One thing I really did appreciate, however, was the Individualism-Collectivism Continuum list. It is a list of 65 counties ranked by how individualist or collecti ...more
One thing I really did appreciate, however, was the Individualism-Collectivism Continuum list. It is a list of 65 counties ranked by how individualist or collecti ...more
I've read about a dozen professional development texts about culturally responsive teaching because I am very committed to this pedagogical concept. I particularly liked this text because it offered a new angle. Zaretta Hammond weaves neuroscience with both traditional and contemporary ideas of culturally responsive teaching. She doesn't just say how we can practice this pedagogy, but she tells what is happening in students' brains when we do and do not use culturally responsive practices. Hammo
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Read this with fellow educators as a book club at my school. I learned the “why” behind perceived student apprehension to learning and was truly able to contextualize the neuroscience in a tangible and approachable manner. The concepts in this book serve as a reminder that cultural responsiveness in the classroom requires a commitment to embracing conscious incompetence in order to truly teach through a lens of equity.
Very thankful to be part of a community of learners who continually push me to think about how to best educate ALL learners ... I learned so much from reading and will continue to “build [my] will, skill and capacity to engage in ‘courageous conversations’ about race, implicit bias and structural racialization that limit the learning opportunities of culturally and linguistically diverse students.”
I felt affirmed by Zaretta Hammond's book. It's one of those reads where I kept reading and nodding my head. I'm glad she's getting good press and that her take on the importance of creating independent learners (instead of dependent learners) is getting a lot of play in education right now. The only downside is that it's very conceptual and theory based. There's no practical chapter of strategies that work. Maybe that's coming next?
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7 stars. Every teacher should read this.
I read many reviews on this book before starting it and folks were quick to point out it’s not a road map on how to be a culturally responsive teacher. However, Zaretta Hammond makes that quite clear from the beginning. She tells readers this book is not going to be a “bag of tricks” and even acknowledges readers may “feel frustrated that [she] didn’t give...a step-by-step guide for creating culturally responsive lessons”.
With that said, I personally enjoyed this book. I feel I’ve been a cultur ...more
With that said, I personally enjoyed this book. I feel I’ve been a cultur ...more
Professional Development books about teaching can be really dull and full of buzz words and fads that are already out of date by the time of publication, but this book isn’t like that. It’s incredibly well organized and I love how it looks at some educational psychology and teaching methods and really focuses on (you guessed it!) the brain and culture and how we can be more mindful as educators to take these into account. I loved the charts and lists that really broke down the info presented and
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An introduction to the concept of culturally responsive teaching which gave me a lot of interesting ideas about how to better support my students, while also frustrating me at times. I found my experience reading this book to be most positive when I picked through it for useful concepts and viewed it as a starting point for conversations around addressing the inequities within our educational system, rather than as a road map for doing so. A fairly accessible read that I would recommend to all t
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So. Good!! Reading this in prep for my role as Diversity, Equity, & Inclusiveness Coordinator at a summer training institute for new teachers. It taught me so much about the brain science behind many aspects of CRT I already embraced as best practice - and pushed me in a whole new way to consider CRT as a mindset rather than a set of strategies or practices. Highly recommend to teachers and school leaders everywhere!
AMAZING BOOK!!! Used as a book study. Would HIGHLY recommend!!
Every educator needs to read this book.
This is a great resource for educators. I appreciate that Hammond offers a framework for thinking about Culturally Relevant Teaching, rather than simply offering a random list of strategies. A key takeaway from the book is that Culturally Relevant Teaching is not merely about behavior management or classroom engagement, rather, Culturally Relevant Teaching is about cognition.
Perhaps my favorite part of the book was the second to last chapter where Hammond explains information processing and off ...more
Perhaps my favorite part of the book was the second to last chapter where Hammond explains information processing and off ...more
I am grateful to have read this book while learning alongside colleagues from across the district and with Stella Villalba as our leader. This is an important read for all educators. So much to think about!
A quote from today’s reading:
“Children grow into the intellectual life around them.”
-Leo Vygotsky
A quote from today’s reading:
“Children grow into the intellectual life around them.”
-Leo Vygotsky
Helpful, but even more helpful was this YouTube discussion with the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...
Here are some FIRE quotes which the bookd idn't quite get to in the same way for me: "You can’t begin to be culturally responsive if you don’t have racial literacy. Because you don’t understand why this is happening.Then the myth of meritocracy takes over (“I don’t know why those parents…”)… those parents came from the same broken system. And we’re blaming the parents. This is not ...more
Here are some FIRE quotes which the bookd idn't quite get to in the same way for me: "You can’t begin to be culturally responsive if you don’t have racial literacy. Because you don’t understand why this is happening.Then the myth of meritocracy takes over (“I don’t know why those parents…”)… those parents came from the same broken system. And we’re blaming the parents. This is not ...more
Culturally responsive teaching is often miscategorized as merely including culturally-relevant material when possible or worse, lowering expectations of learners based on cultural assumptions and stereotypes (and racial stereotypes for that matter). As such, it's an approach to teaching and learning that is often taken up by educators who have a stronger sense of implicit bias, stereotype threat, racism and ethnocentrism along with the implications of each for teaching and learning. Contextualiz
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This book provides a framework for implementing culturally responsive practices in the classroom. Hammond’s basic argument is that culturally responsive teaching practices deepen student learning and build students’ capacity to be independent learners and critical thinkers. The book summarizes and synthesizes a ton of complex information in a very accessible way. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended texts for further reading on that topic making it easy for teachers to go deeper in
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I quite liked this book and I’m typically hesitant to read books of the “here’s how to do your job better” variety. A good bit of what sold me is that Ms. Hammond isn’t satisfied with surface level lip service multiculturalism and is asking for a deeper understanding and empathy down to the roots of the tree. To switch metaphors: it’s not a spice to sprinkle on lessons, but a framework to redefine the whole flow of the educational kitchen.
4.5 I haven’t marked up a book this much in a very long time. I appreciate the balance between conceptual ideas and practical actions in this book. There are ideas, practices, and quotes that I can apply both in my context of providing professional development for teachers and in my classroom when I return to it.
Run, don’t walk to add this to your list of must-read-before-school-starts. Read with a highlighter and a pencil. Read with page markers. Stop often and tell someone about what you’ve just read. This one is important.
Highly recommend to all my teacher friends!!! The level of information/ideas in this was amazing but what was really great was its purposeful moments for reflection throughout. So glad I joined this book club at my school!
Required reading for anyone who works with the human race.
An educator must-read!
I wanted to like this more than I did. It didn’t feel concrete enough for me, and at times some of the suggestions felt too young for my students. There’s some really good info here, but I just can’t help but feel that after reading this, a bunch of white teachers are just going to start doing rap battles in their classrooms 🤦🏻♀️
Everyone should read this book, not just for teachers! But all teachers should DEFINITELY read this.
Every teacher needs to read this book-- especially if you talk about social justice or anti-racism. It's a wonderful mix of theoretical and practical.
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I’m reading this book with a Voxer group of educators during the pandemic summer, and it’s impossible to summarize that experience in a Goodreads review. I keep coming back to a sentence from midway through the book: “There is no formula.” As educators, we are inundated with books and professional development that claim otherwise, and I so appreciate Hammond’s candor. Instead of step-by-step instructions or specific resources, this book gives the reader instruction in the neuroscience explaining
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This book is an excellent resource that provides neuroscientific rationale for a relationship-driven approach to classroom teaching. It’s only flaw is that the suggested approaches do not take into consideration the specific needs and preferences of neuro-diverse students.
Very useful and important book about being a more mindful ally and coach to students, particularly students of color who can easily become disengaged from school because of low expectations or unintentional bias. It's way past time for white teachers like me to get serious about being anti-racist advocates in our classrooms and schools, and this book can help us do so in practical ways. The theories and strategies are easily applied, though the mindset of culturally responsive teaching takes act
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Zaretta Hammond is a former classroom English teacher who has been doing instructional design, school coaching, and professional development around the issues of equity, literacy, and culturally responsive teaching for the past 18 years. She teaches as a lecturer at St. Mary’s College’s Kalmanovitz School of in Moraga, California.
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