George Lucas Educational Foundation
Connecting students’ culture and backgrounds to the classroom isn’t just a nice thing to do—it can have a huge impact on keeping them engaged and making learning materials relevant.
November 18, 2022
To learn more about culturally responsive teaching, check out these resources:
- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (Third Edition), Teachers College Press, 2018.
- Zaretta Hammond, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Corwin Press, 2014.
- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question, Teachers College Press, 2021.
- Django Paris and H. Samy Alim, eds., Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World, Teachers College Press, 2017.
