Gender-Affirming Care is Trauma-Informed Care
This downloadable tip sheet offers tips for showing support and acceptance for transgender, gender diverse, and intersex (TGI) youth.
Family & Community Context
Making Culturally Responsive Teaching More Manageable
Zaretta Hammond explains why one of the biggest challenges teachers struggle with when first embracing this approach is trying to operationalize it in their classrooms. They worry that they have to learn 19 different cultures – their customs, holidays, foods, and language. This simply isn’t true. The other instinct is to reduce it to a set of checklists for each culture as a way to make it manageable. Cultural responsiveness is more of a process than a strategy. The process begins when a teacher recognizes the cultural capital and tools students of color bring to the classroom. She then responds positively by noticing, naming and affirming when students use them in the service of learning. The teacher is “responsive” when she is able to mirror these cultural ways of learning in her instruction, using similar strategies and tools to scaffold learning. The author offers three easy starting points to help make the process more manageable.
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Principles of Trustworthiness: Community Engagement
Since 2015, the AAMC has produced an annual series of Community Engagement Toolkits in collaboration with our members and their communities. These toolkits provide unvarnished community perspectives on crucial issues and views about how our members can be better partners.
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Making Connections: Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain
Elena Aguliar interviews Zaretta Hammond about her book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. Read about how cultural responsiveness is more of a process than a strategy. It begins when a teacher recognizes the cultural capital and tools students of color bring to the classroom.
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Reimaginando del Apoyo a la Salud Mental de los Migrantes
Curso para proveedores no de salud mental, como personal de refugios y promotores de salud, enfocado en estrategias universales.
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HR Toolkit for Racial Equity
This resource comes from W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s work that includes recommended tools and resources for implementing racial equity strategies as part of a human resources function. This resource can be valuable to human resources and culture and equity professionals. It may also be useful to any leader doing internal organizational transformation work in school communities.
Creating Identity-Safe Schools and Classrooms
This research report addresses the ways in which practitioners can build inclusive and affirming school environments with keen attention to identity safety that can support all students in feeling safe, protected, and valued in school environments. A growing body of research points to effective school-based practices and structures, described below, that educators can use to foster the identity safety that nurtures student achievement, positive attachments to school, and a genuine sense of belonging and membership for each student.
From a Nation of Risk to a Nation of Hope
This report explores how the promotion of social, emotional, and academic learning is not a shifting educational fad; it is the substance of education itself. A solid body of scientific evidence confirms that learning has social, emotional, and cognitive dimensions that are inextricably linked. It is not a distraction from the “real work” of math and English instruction; it is how instruction can succeed. And it is not another reason for political polarization. It brings together a traditionally conservative emphasis on local control and on the character of all students, and a historically progressive emphasis on the creative and challenging art of teaching and the social and emotional needs of all students, especially those who have experienced the greatest challenges. Based on conversations with hundreds of people across the nation over the past two years, including students and their families, the report’s recommendations describe strategies that can help local communities address young people’s comprehensive development, including illustrative examples from the field.
Building a Culture of Joyful Learning
Research shows that students who feel known and valued are more prepared to meaningfully engage in learning. Students who experience a sense of belonging have better self-esteem, higher rates of classroom participation, and higher academic achievement (Korpershoek, 2018). As a result of creating a positive school climate for both students and educators, the elementary school featured in this report had the conditions in place to make rapid academic gains. When educators implemented the instructional improvements described in this case study, student proficiency improved dramatically because children were in the right mindset for learning.
