Chapters 2 and 3 discussed the significant role culture plays in responsive teaching in the classroom, as well as the connections and it effects it has on brains. According to the article, studies show that there tends to be a significant achievement gap among students who are culturally and linguistically diverse among others. This gap in turn leads to lower self esteem, and a lesser desire for these students to push themselves and strive for a personal desire of higher level of education. This article highlights the positive correlation between students who are culturally and linguistically diverse and culturally responsive teaching in correspondence with neuro-science. A lot of these methods including creating personal relationships with students and their families and going out of your way to learn more about their culture, as well as having a foundation for an accepting, encouraging, and positive- reinforcement based classroom environment, and they have proven to further engage linguistically and culturally diverse students, which in turn leads to their further achievements in the classroom. As a teacher in New York City myself, I find myself teaching and working closely with students who come from a variety of different cultures and linguistic backgrounds every single day. I make it a point to always educate myself on my own bias by making it a point to be conscious and educated on the values and cultures of my students I teach. I think that making this conscious effort to always be evaluating our own personal biases is key in order to successfully not only educate my students, but to further connect with them as individuals as well as their families. One tradition I have in an effort to make every student feel heard and included is to create a classroom contract as a a class. I ask my students what they think an ideal classroom environment, looks like, feels like, and sounds like, and as a team we brainstorm expectations we can all agree on following in order to foster that environment. Although most people think of the teacher as being the main figure who educates their students in the classroom, I find that once we open our minds and ears and are willing to learn about cultures and experiences from our own students eyes, we will learn just as much from them and be able to further evaluate our implicit biases as human beings.