Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity

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Overview

What will you do to promote multilingual learners’ equity?

Our nation’s moment of reckoning with the deficit view of multilingual learners has arrived. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated long-standing inequities that stand in the way of MLs’ access to effective instruction. Recent events have also caused us to reflect on our place as educators within the intersection of race and language. In this innovative book, Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, replicable ways you can draw from students’ strengths and promote multilingual learners' success within and beyond your own classroom walls.

In this book you’ll find

• Practical and printable, research-based tools that guide you on how to implement culturally responsive teaching in your context
• Case studies and reflection exercises to help identify implicit bias in your work and mitigate deficit-based thinking
• Authentic classroom video clips in each chapter to show you what culturally responsive teaching actually looks like in practice
• Hand-drawn sketch note graphics that spotlight key concepts, reinforce central themes, and engage you with eye-catching and memorable illustrations



Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781544390253
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 02/23/2021
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 235,160
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sydney Snyder, Ph D, is a principal associate at Support Ed. In this role, Dr. Snyder coaches ML educators and develops and facilitates interactive professional development for teachers of MLs. She also works with the Support Ed team to offer technical assistance to school districts and educational organizations. Dr. Snyder has extensive instructional experience and has worked in the field of English language development (ELD) for over 25 years. She started her teaching career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa. This experience ignited her passion for language teaching, culturally responsive instruction, and ML advocacy. Dr. Snyder is co-author of Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity and contributing author to Breaking Down the Monolingual Wall. She served as an English Teaching Fellow at Gadja Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She earned her Ph.D. in Multilingual/Multicultural Education at George Mason University and her M.A.T in TESOL at the School for International Training. You can connect with her by email at Sydney@Support Ed.com or on Twitter at @Sydney Support Ed.

Diane Staehr Fenner, Ph D, is the president of Support Ed (Support Ed.com), a woman-owned small business located in the Washington, DC metro area that she founded in 2011. Dr. Staehr Fenner and Support Ed are dedicated to empowering multilingual learners (MLs) and their educators. Dr. Staehr Fenner leads her team to provide ML professional development, coaching, technical assistance, and curriculum and assessment support to school districts, states, organizations, and the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to forming Support Ed, Dr. Staehr Fenner was an English language development (ELD) teacher, dual language assessment teacher, and ELD assessment specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. She speaks German and Spanish and has taught in Berlin, Germany and Veracruz, Mexico. She grew up on a dairy farm in central New York State and is a proud first-generation college graduate. This is the eighth book she has written on ML education (and counting), with other titles including Unlocking Multicultural Learners’ Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible, Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners: Tools for Equity, and Advocating for English Learners: A Guide for Educators. She is a frequent keynote speaker on ML education at conferences across North America. She earned her Ph D in Multilingual/Multicultural Education at George Mason University and her MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training. You can connect with her by email at Diane@Support Ed.com or on Twitter/X and Linked In at @DStaehr Fenner.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ayanna Cooper vii

Why We Wrote This Book xi

Acknowledgments xv

About the Authors xviii

How to Approach This Book xx

Chapter Overview xxiv

Chapter 1 Why Culturally Responsive Teaching Matters 1

Chapter 2 Building Cultural Competency 36

Chapter 3 Operating From An Assets-Based Approach 73

Chapter 4 Simultaneously Supporting and Challenging Students 105

Chapter 5 Placing Students at the Center of the Learning 149

Chapter 6 Leveraging Students' Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds 197

Chapter 7 Uniting Students' Schools, Families, and Communities 227

Chapter 8 Putting It All Together 268

Appendices 293

Index 315

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