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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

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For decades, researchers have highlighted the importance of comprehending and integrating diverse cultural elements to enhance teaching and learning practices. When people hear the term “culture,” it is often associated solely with ethnic culture.

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One Teacher's Plan to Close Culture Gaps in Schools

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Topics of race, nationality, class, gender and sexual orientation were all folded into my syllabus. When I launched the project in 2016, I was baffled that the culture gaps in our schools weren’t inspiring protests in the streets. The gaps at this project’s launch are alive and well today: according to the U.S.

Culture 167
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By Putting Tensions on Stage, Colleges Aim to Change Campus Culture

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Major studies reveal that sexual harassment is pervasive in some disciplines, discrimination strains women and people of color , and bias leaches into everything from teaching to tenure promotion. There’s an emotional impact of theater you don’t get through a written case study,” Kaplan says. “It Or, they might put on a play.

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Building Community, Collaborative, and Cognitive Classroom Culture 

Faculty Focus

For decades, researchers have highlighted the importance of comprehending and integrating diverse cultural elements to enhance teaching and learning practices. When people hear the term “culture,” it is often associated solely with ethnic culture.

Culture 111
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How Books Became a Mirror to See Myself — and a Window to Learning for My Students

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We then use these responses to solidify the course syllabus as a living document that prioritizes the voices and narratives absent from their previous experiences in the English department. They also posed lingering and emerging questions and identified critical links to current social, cultural and political realities.

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How to Assess Inclusiveness in Teaching

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Renea Brathwaite, chief diversity officer and dean of professional studies at Vanguard University, is an advocate for a relentless pursuit of these metacognitive efforts. Braithwaite stresses that, “We need awareness of our situatedness—in time, space, in culture and in how we experience the flow of history through us.

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Three Strategies that Support Student Well-Being and Mental Health

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The following includes a few strategies and examples to ensure clarity: A clear, inclusive syllabus with a course calendar of class activities, routines, materials, links to rubrics, etc. Recognize and limit microaggressions (Smith-Haghighi, 2022).

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