Strategy 1: Understanding the School Culture as a Shared Set of Values and Beliefs

• Includes the High Expectations and Positive Attitudes that Educators and Administrators have for/towards ALL students regardless of racial, cultural, socioeconomic, and/or ethnic backgrounds to include how they address social issues.

• Ensure that ALL School Personnel is formalized and adheres to a curriculum and teaching models that reflects the range, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and overall diversity represented in the world and the school population

• Assure that presentation and use of testing procedures, assessments, and instructional materials that are culturally sensitive to include situations, school events, and shows

• Representation of cultural and ethnic diversity should be reflected in school staff and supported through like ideology and same goals to support young learners and families to in all school personnel including counselors, psychologists, and leadership

Strategy 2: Assessing School Culture

• Perform a cultural audit of school Administration, community leaders, parents, and fellow educators to assess or brainstorm about how and what they see is important regarding multicultural education

• Discuss participants' norms, values, beliefs, and traditions

• Analyze language used to discuss the topic whether positive or negative and what each person sees their role as being in the common multicultural educational goals for students

• Review school policies including but not limited to, hiring procedures, anti-bias policies, and resource allocation

Strategy 3: Developing a Shared Vision

• Develop to incorporate a shared vision to achieve mutual sense of purpose for the community, parents, educators, and administrations and discuss what the implementation of a multicultural education will look like in practice

• Discuss the current state or appearance of the school from a multicultural perspective, what student success looks like and how it is measured, how is culturally responsive teaching delivered, what does respect look like and how are students equitably assessed?

Strategy 4: Developing a Culture of Collaboration and Teamwork

• Create a community of team learning dedicated to schoolwide multicultural education

• Address current school systems in place for multicultural education and develop plans to ensure that a more realistic multicultural education model is designed to benefit students, families, and communities

• Advocate to change and/or implement models that effectively support diverse cultures, abilities, and backgrounds

• Allow for open dialogue and sharing of ideas in a safe space where collaboration can be effective and a working multicultural model for educators can be built upon to gain commitment to the process with respect to young learners

• Recognizing and Accepting Students for who they are while nurturing their multiple identities

Strategy 2: Actively Using Curriculum and Teaching Practices that are Relevant and Anti-Oppressive

• Validation of students' experiences in the world to address socio-political issues and the need for systemic change while teaching history, empowerment, and political theory/discourse in developmentally appropriate ways

Strategy 3: Building Trusting, Strong, and Positive Relationships with Students, Families, and Schools

• Using student and family cultures as reference to provide context and the understanding of various concepts

Strategy 4: Supporting Students in the Knowledge Development, Vision, and Skills that Allow for Positive, Transformative Change in the World

• Help students to process and internalize content in healthy ways through music and movement, call and response, storytelling

Strategy 2: Be Attuning & Affirming by providing warm responses and consistent patterns of empathy while holding the best interest of the students in mind. Allow for appropriate, safe, free expression while remaining affirming and encouraging to promote positive behaviors

Strategy 3: Be Diffusing & Soothing by providing a safe space for open, non-judgmental, and empathetic dialogue to support healthy discourse and effective communication while offering guiding support and problem-solving strategies to resolve classroom conflict and promote student self-efficacy

Strategy 4: Be Anchoring & Building by acknowledging the cultural differences in each student yet allowing and encouraging them to build on their commonalities and using different age-appropriate lessons to teach empathy and compassion for the diversity in others

Strategy 2: Self-Assessment-Allows for educators to see themselves, evaluate themselves and check themselves for implicit biases as through this acknowledgement; positive change can occur to allow for openness and compassion when collaboration and support is needed from the community and families

Strategy 3: Be Present, Actively Listening and Showing Empathy- Educators who exhibit these characteristics allow for open conversations with families and community leaders to form systemic change for the betterment or benefit of all students. It is a foundation of trust and promotes understanding while creating and sustaining positive relationships and also showing mutual respect for the culture

Strategy 4: Build Trust-Building trust with families and community is a key component of effective communication and makes for the best possible outcomes. Doing so helps to understand and enhance the cultural connection between a student's life outside and inside the classroom as they need all aspects of their lives to come together for their ultimate success in life (Beachboard & Wright, 2023).