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This is the first of a series of blog posts with great ideas for discussion protocols that you can implement throughout your teaching day. What are discussion protocols? Discussion protocols are forums that provide structured, engaging ways for students to discuss their learning. These forums can be used to introduce, clarify, support and reinforce learning and can be used throughout the learning day.1… [ 1234 more words. ]

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DISCUSSION PROTOCOLS IN A CULTURALLY COMPETENT CLASSROOM – PART 1 This is the first of a series of blog posts with great ideas for discussion protocols that you can implement throughout your teaching day.   What are discussion protocols? Discussion protocols...

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Attention Protocols in the Culturally Competent Classroom – Part 2 This is the second of a series of blog posts with great ideas for attention protocols that you can implement throughout your teaching day. “Attention Signals With a Physical Response” Attention Pro...

Building Your Culturally Competent Classroom Library

Building Your Culturally Competent Classroom Library It is important that our classroom libraries include a variety of texts of various formats, genres, and types, including texts that can be applied for use in all of the content areas. Yet when building a culturally responsive classroom library, we must also focus on our students’ need to access literature that offers characters and problems similar to their own lives and identities.1 They should have access to texts in which they see themselves and their experiences represented and valued, as well as texts that represent a diversity of characters, settings, and stories reflective of our broader society.2… [ 857 more words. ]