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Good teachers have empathy and understand the children that are in their classroom. CRSE is ingrained inside of them.  As a whole, the children in our school have respect for one another. The DOE has already  spent tens of millions of dollars on providing workshops that discuss equity.  The money would better be spent giving teachers a chance to purchase materials for individual students  that would accomplish this goal.

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I wonder how the materials will effectively address the loss, harm, grief, and embrace true healing?

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The big ideas from the CRSE Framework is to get to really know your students and respect their cultural differences. Also, the 4 Principles of CRSE will allow the achievement of student success outcomes for all students.

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How can we develop an easy way to tap into our differences in order to enhance daily lessons?

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I wonder how we make students co designers of the curriculum?

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A big take away from the framework is how cultural differences should be celebrated.  Cultural differences are valuable and provide opportunities for teaching/learning and allow for the development of relationships.   

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A big take away from the framework is how cultural differences should be celebrated.  Cultural differences are valuable and provide opportunities for teaching/learning and allow for the development of relationships.   

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My biggest take away: In education, we see diversity as something we need to assess and look for areas needing support. However, we can look at our diversities as something we need to assess and use as leverage in our classrooms.  

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My biggest take away: In education, we see diversity as something we need to assess and look for areas needing support. However, we can look at our diversities as something we need to assess and use as leverage in our classrooms.  

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Kristen Hicks

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The CRSE helps teachers create

Positive perspectives on parents and families.

Communication of high expectations.

Learning within the context of culture.

Student-centered instruction.

Culturally mediated instruction.

Reshaping the curriculum.

Teacher as facilitator.

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I wonder how we can promote respect and understanding between young students of diverse cultures. Especially those with deeply rooted cultures at home.

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One take away is the educational responsibility not only to prevent exclusion of cultures but to promote and perpetuate diverse cultures. Understanding that culture includes ways of thinking, values, and expression, is key to understanding that student's learning is diverse. Student's cultures should not be viewed as "deficiencies to overcome" but assets to their education and the school community.

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Shouldn't diversity always be recognized as a positive for teaching and learning?

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The CRSE framework helps teachers create learning environments that focus on racial and cultural identities. The framework provides students with rigor and independent learning.

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One big idea: The 4 Principals of Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education:

🌎 Welcoming and affirming environment
🌍 High expectations and rigorous instruction
🌏 Inclusive curriculum and assessment
🌍 Ongoing professional learning

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When it comes to culturally responsive teaching, the meaning of culture goes beyond race, religion, and languages spoken. Instead, culture refers to all of the components that make us who we are, such as abilities, perspectives, and values. Furthermore, one’s culture is in a constant state of change.

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NYC school children are the most diverse in the country.  It's very important and our responsibility as teachers to create an environment where children feel safe to share their backgrounds without any judgement.  Our children must have an awareness of their own cultural identity and views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of students and their families.

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NYC school children are the most diverse in the country.  It's very important and our responsibility as teachers to create an environment where children feel safe to share their backgrounds without any judgement.  Our children must have an awareness of their own cultural identity and views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of students and their families.

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The CRSE is a nice approach to teach our students to be respectful to all cultures, nationalities, and religion. Also, we need to work more closely with families in order to find out about our students' needs. I wonder if it is enough time during parent engagement.

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The CRSE is a new and unique approach to creating learning opportunities that embrace all forms of diversity that exists within every classroom in NYC

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I think that a big part of this  is the importance of having student-centered learning approaches and show cultural differences in a positive light.

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I think that a big part of this  is the importance of having student-centered learning approaches and show cultural differences in a positive light.

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We feel it is important to expose our students to as many cultures as possible and incorporate that across all subject areas. The big ideas that we took from the framework are setting high expectations for all students, the importance of diversity and the need for teachers to continue to their growth through valuable professional development in the area of CRSE.

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One of the big ideas of the CRSE framework is giving educators the tools to foster equity and inclusion in the classroom through professional development, setting high standards, and creating curriculums that cater to the diverse needs of students.

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Victoria Lau

Culture is identified as a group that one belongs to. CRSE defines culture as one's gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and so on.

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I wonder if much of the training that staff members will be undergoing in the coming months will be readily available to parents/families, as well.

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I think the most important ideas from the framework were: setting high student expectations, diversity focused professional development, meeting the needs of diverse learning styles, and creating a welcoming/inclusive school environment.

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I wonder how to create identity and pride within my students without creating divisions amongst them.

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I think the summary of the CRS in the tree graphic on p. 12 is powerful on its own. In order to do this work with our students, we may have to regrow and explore our cultures with each other first.

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I wonder how we can address issues such as getting the parents of all of our students more involved in school events and activities.

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I think that a big takeaway from this is the important of creating student-centered learning approaches and affirm cultural differences rather than gloss over or discredit them. It is essential that students have a strong sense of self while not have a strong feeling of being "other." From many we are one. Culture is more than music and food, more than languages, that can be shared across many. Culture is deeper and harder to define, because culture is not just limited to the region of the world you are in now. It isn't limited just to your family connections.

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I wonder how powerful our work in classrooms surrounding equity will be if we still have the same institutional systems in place that have allowed these inequities to flourish. For this work to be most effective and for it to produce meaningful change, we must also work to dismantle systems of oppression.

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Culture is also about language diversity. The linguistic form a student brings to the school is intimately connected with love ones, their community and personal identity. Teachers need to support the language that students bring to school and provide them with new opportunities to use new language codes that make them feel welcome.

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What does their definition of culture mean?  How can culture be more than music, food, traditions or clothing?

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What does their definition of culture mean?  How can culture be more than music, food, traditions or clothing?

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I wonder where the breakdown of inequities occurs? Is it on the elementary level or more on the 6-12 level and how can the continuity of what we teach progress foward.

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What are some of my wonderings from reading the CRSE Framework?

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What are some of my wonderings from reading the CRSE Framework?

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What were some of the big ideas from the CRSE Framework?

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What were some of the big ideas from the CRSE Framework?

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I think that ongoing professional development will be key for all stakeholders. While there may be the need for this framework in our school system, how the framework is  introduced and presented
has to be meaningful and purposeful if it is to be lasting and impactful.

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The big idea I got from all this is quite simple. I will quote from Lisa Delpit in the book she wrote Called Other Peoples Children, "In order to teach you I must know you:! Its been my mantra for the last 20 years. To successfully educate all of our children we must work to remove the blinders built of stereotypes, monocultural instructional methodologies, ignorance, social distance(not the COVID-19 kind) biased research and racism. We must work to destroy those blinders so that it is possible to really see, to really know the students we must teach.