![]() ![]() ![]() Gloria Ladson-Billings and Geneva Gay are two prominent figures in education whose work on culturally relevant teaching and culturally responsive teaching, respectively, has been very influential in the work I do supporting student learning and academic success for students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and the teachers who teach them. Approaches that foreground, support, and value student culture and identity are critically important, particularly now. What kinds of approaches are used to raise critical consciousness and cultural connections in the content that we teach to our students? Several approaches have been used that focus on student diversity ( Mensah 2011), and given the challenges of remote emergency teaching, these approaches will not address every circumstance, but they do offer assurance that teaching and learning remain high goals for all our students. As we think about what to teach during a global pandemic, questions regarding the curriculum and instruction also come into greater focus. ![]() In the current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, educational, health, and racial disparities are magnified and brought into the light more than ever. Much of this diversity brings challenges in meeting the needs of all our students. As we know, our society-hence, our classrooms-are becoming increasingly diverse in terms of racial, ethnic, cultural, economic, and religious diversity. ![]()
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