Black female teacher holds a globe and smiles as a diverse group of elementary students gather round engaged.

Assess Your Inclusive Practices: Bring Culturally Responsive Practices Into The Daily Routine

Inflexion February 15, 2021

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The only way to get students to open up to us is to show we authentically care about who they are, what they have to say, and how they feel.

– Zaretta L. Hamond

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This activity will help your team assess and identify how inclusive practices, supports, and structures, such as co-teaching and teaming, are at your campus.

Are the environments on your campus (classrooms, extracurricular and common areas, virtual spaces) set up to be most welcoming and accommodating for your students, or for the adults?

OBJECTIVES

Learn about the role culturally responsive practices, restorative practices, and leveraging student voice and choice play in supporting inclusive environments.

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VIDEO: 6 Ways to be an Antiracist Educator

The below activity is designed for your leadership team.

Reflect on how educators can bring culturally responsive and restoratives practices into their daily routine.

Watch the below video on 6 ways to be an Antiracist Educator for ideas.

Discuss the video, and brainstorm any other ideas as a group.

Discuss as a group how you can lead teachers into incorporating some of what Dena spoke to in the video.

Identify one thing each leader will do to move this work forward.

Categories: Instructional Practices, Leadership Activities, Organizational Structures, Rituals & Routines

Tags: Equitable Access (Individual), Inclusive Leadership, Inclusive Practices, Leading for Equity, Onboarding Practices, School Leaders

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Elementary teacher and students sit in a circle smiling and laughing.

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Student Cell Phone Policy: Best Practices for Student Success

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