Helping our students feel like they belong is an important starting place for real learning. This workshop will focus on how we as educators include the rich diversity in our classrooms and schools to ensure all students succeed by creating culturally responsive learning environments where culture and identity are viewed as assets, valuable resources and where what is being taught connects to a student’s lived experiences. By promoting and respecting our students' cultural backgrounds we can improve and deepen learning, promote educational equity, and create a community of learners among individuals from different cultural, social, and ethnic backgrounds; thus, developing students' agency, efficacy, and empowerment.

Educators will be introduced to culturally sustaining pedagogy that affirms and values students’ cultures, and that prior experiences ensures learning is more relevant and effective while building community and developing student agency. Participants will learn strategies to promote teaching and learning principles of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to achieve academic achievement, cultural competence, and sociopolitical awareness. This encourages students to accept and affirm their cultural identity while they develop critical perspectives that challenge inequities. Sign Up Here.