Tool: How principals can support culturally responsive teaching
In order for teachers to succeed with students from culturally diverse
backgrounds, principals must set the conditions that make it possible
for teachers to develop and enact culturally responsive practices. This
tool helps you to reflect on and plan for setting these conditions. See
the Culturally relevant teaching resources
to identify resources for your own learning and for teacher learning in
your school.
| How do I… |
Current practices |
Plan for further action |
| Encourage and support teachers’ learning about students and their
communities? |
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| Cultivate caring, engaged relationships with students and their
families? |
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| Encourage and provide opportunities for teachers to critically analyze
curricular and instructional materials and classroom and school policies
that contribute to discrimination and unequal access to learning? |
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| Support professional development that builds the knowledge, skills
and dispositions for teaching culturally diverse students? |
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| Build collaborative relationships with other agencies and institutions
that serve students and their communities? |
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Adapted from Lucas, T. (2000). Facilitating the transitions
of secondary English language learners’: Priorities for principals.
NASSP Bulletin, 84 (619), 2-16.
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