Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

by Sydney Cail Snyder, Diane Staehr Fenner

What will you do to promote multilingual learners’ equity?  

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, Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, replicable ways you can draw from students’ strengths and promote multilingual learners′ success within and beyond your own classroom walls. 

In this book you’ll find

• Practical and printable, research-based 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 actually looks like in practice
• Hand-drawn sketch note graphics that spotlight key concepts, reinforce central themes, and engage you with eye-catching and memorable illustrations


 

Genres: Education, Teaching, Teachers, Social Justice

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 9, 2021

Reviews

[Jade Gonzaba · Rating 4 out of 5]

only because I had to for grad school, lol.

[April · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource for addressing equity in education regardless of role. This is an excellent starting point for ALL education stakeholders: student teachers, teachers, paras, administrators, coaches, librarians, counselors, etc. Highly recommend. Change starts here and now with all of us!

[Natalie Cardon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Corwin always does such a great job including videos. I really enjoyed the ones in this book. It seems Syracuse School District is doing very inspiring things for MLLs. I would recommend this book to any educator seeking to enhance their teaching or for schools to read together as a book club. There are so many good thinking prompts and action items that would be good for any professional development.

[Ellie Eskola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ellie summed up— I refused to let this book take over my entire semester of grad school, so I read it in the first three days of my fall semester and took 6 tests over it... yes, also in three days. I’d say it’s pretty good🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[Hilary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a solid read and offered some excellent resources and ideas around CRT that could apply to not just MLLs but all students.

[Seth Hobson · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was an interesting read ab9ut providing equity in education.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I highly recommend this book if you are a teacher and working Multilingual learners (ML).

It is very thorough, has resources that are actually useful, with website and links for more information and is very well-rounded (looks at the entirety of the assets they bring and barriers to learning ML students bring).

I am glad my school board provided this as a book club offering. I learned a lot and glad it is on my shelf!