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Erika Sanneman
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The Multilingual Mind helps schools and education teams close the gap between what they know they want to do and what their people actually have the time, training, tools, systems, and support to impl
Culturally responsive teaching can become very abstract very quickly.
So I like starting smaller: pick one lesson.
Who wrote the sources?
Whose knowledge is treated as familiar?
Whose experience is missing?
What is one structural shift that would make the lesson more representative, accessible, or connected to the students actually in front of you?
Then keep the why with the change.
If a teacher adapts a source, adds context, or changes how students can access the content, save the source and a short note about why. That way the next teacher does not have to rediscover the same problem from scratch.
That is the systems piece I keep coming back to. A thoughtful choice matters. A thoughtful choice that someone else can understand, reuse, and keep developing is much more likely to become part of the culture.
Where would you start with one lesson?