Cultural Diversity
Search by Keyword
Topic

Tips for Inclusive School Communities: Building Belonging & Equity
February 20, 2024
How can you promote equity and belonging in your inclusive school community? Try the tips in today’s post, excerpted and adapted from the new book True Inclusion With UDL by…

9 Schoolwide Changes That Support Literacy Development for Multilingual Learners
November 16, 2023
What are some schoolwide changes that can help boost language development and literacy in multilingual learners, especially those who are having academic difficulties? Today’s post outlines 9 key ideas, adapted…

Toward More Equitable Transition Outcomes: A Q&A with LaRon A. Scott & Colleen A. Thoma
October 10, 2023
Students with disabilities from historically marginalized backgrounds often experience inequities in education and support services—leading to negative post-school outcomes. In today’s author Q&A, you’ll learn about a book that helps…

8 Strategies for Culturally Responsive Family Engagement
September 19, 2023
*Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from The Handbook of Racial Equity in Early Childhood Education, by Jen Neitzel, Ph.D., & Ebonyse Mead, Ed.D., with invited contributors When early childhood…

8 Ways to Connect School to Students’ Cultural Resources
August 29, 2023
To support student learning, it’s important for teachers to relate lesson content to real-life purposes and settings—especially in diverse classrooms that include multilingual learners. Today’s post, adapted from the third…

3 Goals of Co-Teaching for Multilingual Learners
August 15, 2023
How can K–12 educators use co-teaching to strengthen success for the growing number of multilingual learners in schools? That’s the question Holly J. Porter tackles in her new guidebook, Intentional…

5 Steps to Differentiating Instruction for English Language Learners
August 10, 2023
Differentiated instruction and assessment provide different pathways to learning so that every student in your classroom—including students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds—can reach high expectations and standards. In their…

6 Effective Postreading Activities for Your Culturally Diverse Classroom
June 29, 2023
What kinds of postreading activities do you use with your students? Effective postreading activities help deepen students’ comprehension of the text and extend their learning beyond it—a goal that’s especially…

17 Teacher Tips for Multicultural Early Childhood Education
June 22, 2023
In their new book Coaching for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging in Early Childhood, Anni K. Reinking and Laycee Thigpen articulate a vision for improving child outcomes through transformative,…

“Anti-Bias Practices Are Good for All Children”: An Equity Q&A with Jen Neitzel & Ebonyse Mead
May 25, 2023
Every early educator wants to give each child a bright start—and a big part of that goal is dismantling the biases and inequities that have created an achievement gap for…