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Culturally sustaining practices (CSP) allow, invite, and encourage students to not only use their cultural practices from home in school, but to maintain them. CSP allows students to exist not only in the culture of their school, but also in the culture of their home.

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You have to study the students!

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Culturally competent teachers push and stretch kids because they have no way of knowing where the next genius resides.

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- Operationalize CRT to close the achievement gap -

First) Recognize the learning tools students bring to the classroom.

Then) Mimic those learning tools during instruction.

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Culturally responsive teaching allows students to be who they are in the classroom.

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Learned helplessness is the byproduct of inequity.

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You cannot be a teacher who is culturally responsive until you are comfortable with who you are.

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Only showing Black suffering or slavery does not begin to break down problematic beliefs about Black people.

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1. Understand the difference between prejudice and racism.

2. Teaching color blindness leads to color silence.

3. Recognize the systemic forces at work against communities of color.

4. Choose community over chaos.

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How can we develop culturally responsive students if our teachers are culturally incompetent?