Culturally responsive teaching is really about building relationships and validating students. Ensuring the academic success of students takes care and a little tough love.
Deborah Walker recalls that, growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, fear and rage lived side by side. She credits her lifelong fight for equity to her guardian angels.
Chandler P. Miranda is a doctoral candidate at New York University and is currently conducting her dissertation research at a high school for recently arrived immigrant teenagers. Her research focuses on school culture and schooling practices for immigrant youth. She taught high school science for seven years in San Benito, Texas, and in Barranquilla and Bogota, Colombia, before pursuing a doctoral degree.