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Pop-ethni-cally Relevant Teaching

With the growing range of diversity within the walls of schools, ignoring the cultural variances within a classroom is a disservice to both teachers and students. This gap supersedes just race and ethnicity; it also includes the age disconnect between staff and students. If teachers can present culturally relevant texts, they can scaffold the material and begin to shift the responsibility from themselves to students, who flock towards pop culture, ethnocentric material, and music. If they are reading, writing, and thinking about higher level concepts, in correlation to material that interests them, they will rise to the challenge and accept the responsibility of their own education. Through various text types, writing and output opportunities, and a variety of tech tools, any teacher can create a “Pop-ethn-ically” Relevant learning environment.

Let us GROW TOGETHER  by replacing just one of your current texts and see what happens!

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It is not an overnight trick and it cannot happen in one day. It is a gradual process that you begin instilling within your students on the first day of school

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Learning Styles and How they Impact Self-Advocacy

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Learning Styles and How they Impact Self-Advocacy

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The Importance of Culturally Relevant Texts

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The Importance of Culturally Relevant Texts

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This is something that already exists, that I made colorful to assess the cultural relevance of a piece of text. You may use this when selecting a piece of texts for your students, or have the students complete it after they read a piece of text.

*Higher level activity, have your students read a text with a character in it, and then read a second piece through the eyes of that character and then assess the cultural relevance of the text for the character they are reading for

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Sometimes Thinking Differently is Hard...

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Sometimes Thinking Differently is Hard...

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...especially when our teaching ideals are so deeply engrained in our beliefs about "literature."

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Micah Bournes - "Native Tongue" | All Def Poetry x Da Poetry Lounge

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I love free choice in the classroom. This folder contains four projects that I would allow my students to choose from.

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Perhaps my favorite way to use a text besides a model or mentor text! #PennyKittleIsTheBest

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Writing Ideas do not always have to start off as writing. I start with symbols, move to mandalas, and then my students made their own, shared them with others, and finally completed a writing assignment about themself and their mandala

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Links are in the Comments!! :)

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This is a great way to assess your student's understanding of a pieces or pieces of text.

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Based on your PERSONALITY, what kind of MUSICAL GENRE or “CULTURE” are you?

Using FlipGrid: create a video explaining your genre choice and play us a snid-bit of a song that falls within that genre.
PASSWORD: Talk2Me!

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Planning Quality Lessons with Culturally Relevant Texts

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Planning Quality Lessons with Culturally Relevant Texts

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PASSWORD: literacy

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Take the power back. #Rageagainstthemachine

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#amalgamation

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Empower Students to Examine their Society to Work for Social Change

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Empower Students to Examine their Society to Work for Social Change

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@kt_crysup Gregory-Portland HS