Gloria Ladson Billings, who coined the term, Zaretta framed culturally responsive teaching as teaching with students’ “academic prowess” at the center. So, what is culturally responsive teaching?Ĭulturally responsive teaching (CRT) is often talked about in terms of classroom social-emotional learning, building teacher-student relationships, or motivating students.Ĭiting the researcher Dr. Watch the interview above, and read on for highlights of the conversation. Zaretta talked with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller in this PLtogether Lounge Talk, and the two discussed the meaning of culturally responsive teaching and what it looks like in practice. Many educators have heard of culturally responsive teaching, but do they really know what that entails? The term is often incorrectly used interchangeably with other classroom pedagogies and practices such as trauma-informed care.Īccording to Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, culturally responsive teaching is distinctly different from trauma-informed care and anti-racist education, and it is also not one specific strategy that teachers can pick up and implement “tomorrow.”Ĭulturally responsive teaching is a framework and approach for how to teach.
