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Culturally responsive teaching for multilingual learners [electronic resource] : tools for equity / Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner ; foreword by Ayanna Cooper ; sketchnotes by Kate Monick

Author
Snyder, Sydney
Published
Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, [2021]
Physical Description
xxvii, 322 pages ; color illustrations ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Fenner, Diane Staehr
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Contents
Why culturally responsive teaching matters -- Building cultural competency -- Operating from an assets-based approach -- Simultaneously supporting and challenging students -- Placing students at the center of the learning -- Leveraging students' linguistic and cultural backgrounds -- Uniting students' schools, families, and communities -- Putting it all together.
Summary
"Despite recent efforts to shift the narrative for our nation's English learners, most of our present policies and practices are indisputably informed by a deficit lens. The very label English learner (or EL) -- a term used both in federal (most recently in ESSA) and local policies -- suggests a deficit in that it focuses on what is lacking (English language proficiency) rather than on an emergent asset (developing multilingualism). This deficit perspective typically permeates all aspects of our country's education system beginning at the classroom level, extending through the culture of schools and districts, and ultimately manifesting itself in misguided legislation and policy such as Proposition 227 in California which effectively prohibited bilingual education for nearly two decades"--
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ISBN
9781544390253 (paperback)
9781071817223 (epub)
9781071817247 (epub)
9781071817254 (pdf)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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