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Navigating cultural diversity in American education

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Within the educational landscape, the concept of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) has emerged as a multifaceted approach that aims to promote equitable excellence and validate the diverse experiences of students. Effective teaching is deemed as inherently and inevitably culturally responsive.

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4 lies the system teaches school leaders about struggling readers

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These misconceptions are having a detrimental impact on struggling readers, and school leaders need to set the tone and build a school culture where best practices and evidence-based research are shared to create a system of support for all readers. “School leaders are just following along and are starting to believe them.”

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Let’s Teach Computer Science Majors to Be Good Citizens. The Whole World Depends on It.

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However, as books like “ Brotopia ” by Emily Chang and “ Race after Technology ” by Ruha Benjamin indicate, the culture of tech companies can be misogynistic and racist and therefore unwelcoming to many people. I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do.

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Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning

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The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs)” (Frankenburg 2024, para. Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia.

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Cultural Immersion: An Eye-Opening Experience to Facilitate Learning

Faculty Focus

The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs)” (Frankenburg 2024, para. Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia.

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I Spent Years Hiding Parts of My Identity When Students Really Needed Me to Embrace My Whole Self

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In my drive to transcend the label of “the Asian teacher” that colleagues and students attached to me, I ended up suppressing another part of my identity as a disabled person with a visual impairment. In the former, it was my disability that defined who I was, but in the latter, it was my skin color.

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As Safety Threats Rise in Schools, Could SEL Programs Help?

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There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. This suggests that students are better able to engage socially when they have a foundation in their own emotions, attitudes and beliefs.