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 Please share your thoughts on the guiding questions and resources to share widely (To add your response click on the plus (+) sign to the right for each question and type your response)

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 Please share your thoughts on the guiding questions and resources to share widely (To add your response click on the plus (+) sign to the right for each question and type your response)

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Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Practices Summary

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Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Practices Summary

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Bond and connect with my students so they are able to trust me with how they are feeling about the material or themselves 

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Bond and connect with my students so they are able to trust me with how they are feeling about the material or themselves 

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Focus on connecting with students, making sure they feel seen and that they feel like they have a support system in you/someone who knows what’s going on their life

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I elevate teacher credibility but focusing on trust and being my authentic self. Students know when you are being a different version of who you really are and when they know you are real, they trust you and are willing to work with you.

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I listen and try to remember - check in daily with each student if possible.

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Anonymous question submission and addressing them during class over the semester

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You have to demonstrate vulnerability and quite transparent at the age appropriate level 

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You have to demonstrate vulnerability and quite transparent at the age appropriate level 

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I am trying to do better in this area. How can I make our classroom’s content relevant and important to students? I dunno. I’m at a place where I need to make this a daily question during planning and delivery.

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I teach a mini lesson on belongingness.
First 1-5 minutes of every class to check in with students about what's happening outside of our classroom.

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Show respect for student, their answers, and their questions.

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I believe that creating rapport with students and showing them you can be trusted as a teacher will show them your credibility. Teaching the course content in a way they can understand and relate to it also shows credibility.

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Within each lesson there is always opportunity to explore how this connects to other countries, cultures. This broadens horizons for the other students and the teacher and makes them feel comfortable 

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Within each lesson there is always opportunity to explore how this connects to other countries, cultures. This broadens horizons for the other students and the teacher and makes them feel comfortable 

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No matter how tired of or frustrated with a student I may be, I coach myself to say, "let me help you with this.  I enjoy helping you with math."

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No matter how tired of or frustrated with a student I may be, I coach myself to say, "let me help you with this.  I enjoy helping you with math."

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By being honest and showing trust to my students so they can also trust me 

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By being honest and showing trust to my students so they can also trust me 

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Providing a google form at the end of the lesson on which parts they struggled and which parts they liked. Students can be brutally honest which is good, because it allows teachers to improve.

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Do role playing activities. It can be a current event from the news and students will be assigned a role and have to have a discussion from that person perspective. For example, the conflict in Ukraine. One person is Putin, another Biden, Ukraine soldier, mother of a soldier, etc.

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Create relationships and close connections with students
Strengthen communities

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I try to stay current within Research, of both pedagogy and content knowledge.

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Have exercises where students can bring examples from their own cultures

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Allowing time to have discussions that may not be directly related to the lesson when they come up

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Allowing time to have discussions that may not be directly related to the lesson when they come up

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We include examples of inequity in data and students "discover" how very different experiences are for different groups. It offers a great opportunity to discuss.

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Reverse popsicle sticks.

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Being able to be credible to your students, you have to create a positive report while being able to be trustworthy, honest, inclusive, relevant, and productive and happy with your knowledge in the content.

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Various Kagan cooperative learning strategies 

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Various Kagan cooperative learning strategies 

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Equity cards

Facilitating classroom discussions worth voting with your feet

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I include special lessons on various SEL topics and have conversations with my students a means to show them that is okay to discuss these topics

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building real connections and learning about what makes your students tick

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Always ask the questions, “Who is not in my classroom?”, “Why not?”, and “What am I going to do about it?”

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Provide a sense of organization and structure to the classroom. Try and connect with students. Use student names from day one by using name tents.

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Share your experiences, particularly failures/challenges and how you overcame them; invite/discuss other strategies to overcome those issues.

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Connecting activities or learning structures based on the cultural differences between students. Ensuring that each student is represented in some way or form throughout each lesson

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I like to focus on letting the students know that I am paying attention to concerns and feedback and adapting as well as monitoring how they do and feel in the classroom

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Environmental/Social Justice project. Use statistics for good.

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Understand and accommodate students and their backgrounds
Provide cultural lessons or integrate understanding diversity

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Extend my privilege to students.  Use my privilege to advocate for them.

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Extend my privilege to students.  Use my privilege to advocate for them.

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Get to know you in 8 words intro assignment/video

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Get to know you in 8 words intro assignment/video

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Making sure the students know that every day, they are going to be loved, respected, and are going to have to work! Sharing my love and excitement for science through my lessons

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Allowing students to share their experiences out loud or anonymous and discussing it. It allows them to know they can talk about it as well as a process to help them with experience.

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We use living slide decks to check in frequently and encourage learning about each other with a place to document beautiful differences.

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Relate topics to the students lives and cultural backgrounds

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Relate topics to the students lives and cultural backgrounds

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You can gather information on topics students would like to know more about through surveys, class engagement, or personal chats with students.

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Always encourage participation and have different strategies to get students to speak in class. Telling students that being wrong is also okay!

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Be open about discussing more taboo subjects like identity, suicide, teen pregnancy, divorce, etc. 

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Be open about discussing more taboo subjects like identity, suicide, teen pregnancy, divorce, etc. 

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Create a community in the classroom where students supportive of each other.

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More discussions, room for relationships

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By having trust in your student to be able to bring in items to help your teaching a lessons. When teaching geology I brought in real gems, rocks and minerals so the student can have see these in person.

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I try to see and celebrate the individuality of each student. I want to share and connect students to each other when they might otherwise not interact. This sometimes feels contrived forces or strained. How do I make it more organic?

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Mini lessons on positive self talk.  Precision over perfection.

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Mini lessons on positive self talk.  Precision over perfection.

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Model expectations. Have explicit conversations around this.

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Create an environment where it is safe to ask questions and mistakes are expected

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By building relationships with every student

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Incorporation of these practices would include ability to include conversations about differences in communities while being able to connect with others

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Family survey and Involving parents in lessons

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Family survey and Involving parents in lessons

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Recipe sharing for biomolecules unit
Having parents help with projects, science fair, building gardens (tools), etc

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Having educational discussions in class that are outside of the content.

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I try to frame conversations between teachers and students within the “courageous conversations compass”: feeling thinking believing acting.

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This is more effective in higher ed, but take a moment to acknowledge the diversity in your classroom and lament the lost potential due to prejudice and lack of inclusion.