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Culturally Responsive Teaching

The issue of cultural responsiveness in our classes ..   Scholarly resources on the topic of Culturally Responsive Teaching  Leadership approaches in education regarding cultural diversity and cultural responsiveness is closely associated with the need we feel as educators to prepare our students for the 21st century. Our learners need appropriate skills to function in their diverse cultural communities and beyond their cultural borders. (Banks, 2012)  Title: Culturally responsive practices as whole school reform. Authors: V.M. Mayfield University of Colorado, Denver & Dorothy Garrison-Wade University of Colorado, Denver. Date of publication: 2015 Journal: Journal of Instructional Pedagogies. The purpose of the study is to outline successful culturally responsive practices in a Middle School in the US which appears to be closing academic opportunity gaps between White and Black students. Data collection techniques : observations, interviews, and focus groups. There has bee