Culturally Responsive PracticesFamily and Student Voice

GETTING YOUR VABB ON: WHAT MY MAMA

AND DADDY SAY

Culturally Responsive Schools:Engage families and other stakeholders in implementation and decision making

Adjust their school culture and climate to reflect ALL the families that they serve

Understand that school culture is dynamic based on need

When there is cultural differences, schools get their VABB on.

SETTING THE STAGE

GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS (UW-MADISON) COINED THE TERM “CULTURAL

RELEVANCY” IN 1994.

IT IS A WAY OF TEACHING THAT “EMPOWERS STUDENTS INTELLECTUALLY,

SOCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND POLITICALLY BY USING CULTURE TO IMPART KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND

ATTITUDES.”

GO BEYOND RELEVANT TO RESPONSIVE

Cultural Relevancy

Teachers must create a bridge between the students’ home and school lives in order to successfully meet district and state curricular requirements.

"Our children are victims of identity theft. Someone has stolen their identity of excellence, intelligence, and achievement and made them believe they're supposed to be pimps, playas, thugs, and criminals. Identity determines activity. Education, therefore, is about identity restoration.” Chike Akua

“I don’t become what I think I can; I don’t become what you think I can; I become what I think you think I can.”

Dignity is a non-negotiable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bndCdOeMO3Y

RITA PEARSON – MAMA SAYS

VALIDATE: To make legitimate that which the institution and

mainstream have made illegitimate

AFFIRM: To make positive that which the institution and

mainstream have made negative

BUILD: Make connections between home culture and language

with the school culture and language

BRIDGE: Give opportunity for situational appropriateness (code

switching) or utilize the appropriate culture or linguistic behaviors

VABB

Schools are responsible for teaching, TO FLUENCY, what is expected in the SCHOOL setting.

Schools do not get to place judgment on how or what families teach their children.

Schools bridge and build between what is taught at home/community and what is taught in the school.

Schools teach children how to Code Switch.

CRITICAL CONCEPTS

Ari Davis

James Bliley

Taneah Braxton

Jose Padraza

Cedar Fernandez

HOW ARE THE CHILDREN?

Contact Information

Andreal Davis Davisa@wisconsinrticenter.org

Kent Smith smithk@wisconsinpbisnetwork.org

THE CHILDREN ARE WELL