How a School Puts Culturally Responsive Teaching Into Practice
The small K–8 dual-language immersion public school has practiced culturally responsive teaching for years. It’s a philosophy that informs everything from its pedagogy to the school’s philosophy about Spanish-English immersion. “There are no blank slates walking into the classroom,” says Amigos’s principal, Sarah Bartels-Marrero. “Culturally responsive teaching is capitalizing on all that students bring with them from their personal lives and their home lives.
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