Category » Curriculum

• Culturally Responsive Literacy

  1/1/08 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

  Culturally responsive literacy models examine not only the methods of teaching students to engage with and learn from multiple texts, but also consider the many purposes for which individuals become literate. This module examines the purposes of literacy in students' lives, methods of designing and implementing culturally responsive literacy instruction, and the use of many forms of literacy as powerful tools for student engagement in school and social change. Participants are guided through...

• 

  Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction

  1/1/04 - Tandria Callins

  This paper is one of the practitioner-oriented briefs produced by the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt). It applies to all teachers of culturally and linguistically diverse students who are interested in improving literacy instructions. In order for culturally and linguistically diverse students to become productive members of society, they need to be fully functional participants in literate communities. Literacy is pervasive not only in school but in...

• 

  The Mississippi Cultural Responsivity Matrix- A Teachers’ Self-study Guide for Culturally Responsive Practices in Grades K-6: Reading and Mathematics

  1/1/06 - National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems,

  Assists teachers and administrators in assessing the degree to which mandated curricular guides in mathematics and reading curricula and strategies are responsive to the socio-cultural experiences and backgrounds of their students.

• 

  They’re all ready to learn to read. Are we ready to teach them?

  1/1/08 - Ken Goodman

  Recently, a teacher told me that her colleagues believe a mandated early reading test I critiqued is necessary because “the parents of these kids don’t get them ready to learn to read in school.” Too often we expect urban youngsters to be low achievers. My years of research have convinced me that “these kids” are just as capable of learning to read and write as all the others. But if we make the old mistake of confusing difference with deficiency, it becomes a self-fulfilling...

• 

  Vertical Alignment: Ensuring Opportunity to Learn in a Standards-Based System

  1/1/09 - The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement,

  In response to requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), state policymakers have made concerted efforts to align state standards with state accountability assessments. When strongly aligned and articulated, state standards and assessments can provide a clear and coherent set of expectations for students and educators (Case & Zucker, 2005; Council of Chief State School Officers, 2002, 2006; Kulm, Wilson, & Kitchen, 2005; Resnick, Rothman, Slattery, & Vranek, 2003). However, state...