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Culturally responsive teaching is really about building relationships and validating students. Ensuring the academic success of students takes care and a little tough love.

This teacher helps students find commonalities between their own complex lives and the experiences of children a world away.

This English teacher picked up a few tips for connecting with students. It’s all about how you speak.

When a teacher accompanies her students to see the film Bully, she asks important questions about how adults in the school building handle the issue.

Watching a television program featuring deaf and hard of hearing characters changed this teacher’s perspective. She wants to pass it on to her students.

When students express outrage over the “rape culture” in another country, the teacher brings the discussion closer to home for further exploration.

Building Your Knowledge Learn more about Native Americans. First, encourage students to take a short quiz to see what they already know (or don’t know) about Native American Influences in U.S. History and Culture. Oral

The confluence of President Obama’s second inauguration and MLK Day is a fitting legacy and inspiration to continue making changes.

Evidence from the Human Genome Project.

An Oregon educator breaks the logjam of environmental conflict.