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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. You can find her on the web at Ready4rigor.com and on Twitter at @ready4rigor

• Culturally responsive teaching is seen as classroom management or one-off - both of these are wrong. It is really about learning.
• Dependent vs. Independent learners
• Brains aren’t any different, but the system is stacked against them.
• It’s about getting students to take control of their own learning.
• Once learning is relevant, then students can be engaged.
• Multi-cultural education vs. culturally responsive education.
• Where to start (Thanks to @feedurmind_read) in culturally responsive teaching.
• Leader to create the conversation to talk about our students.
• Counter-narratives - acknowledge the dominant narratives. Not about preaching from the leader.
• Trust undermines culturally responsive teaching.
• Here’s the three things we believe about our X students.
• What’s being said in the media about those students?
• Teachers are mirroring what they are seeing in the media.
• Starts with relational trust and creating counter-narratives.

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