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Zaretta Hammond is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students.

• Second phase - building capacity of teachers.
• Learning partnerships.
• We can’t learn when we don’t trust.
• How to quickly build trust through trust generators.
• Selective vulnerability.
• Social pain and physical pain are equal as far as the brain is concerned.
• Power of acknowledging students out in the community.
• Culturally responsive teaching isn’t about just relationships.
• We have the relationship so the teacher can push when the learning gets hard.
• 4 cultural learning tools.
• Understand there is a common thread through most cultures - collectivism.
• Individualism vs. Collectivism - figuring out a problem together.
• This is not a subject area you need to tackle, but something that you need to bring into the meeting.
• World cafe - strategy for teacher discussion.
• How to be a transformative principal? Facilitative leadership. How do you create an agenda that is equity focused?

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