Using Diversity to Build a Culture of Belonging

The school also makes students’ languages and cultures central to its academic instruction. Many teachers select books, and build units, that relate to students’ languages and cultures. “I make it personal, about them, and then their interest is piqued because then they’re always doing that comparison with their lives,” says seventh-grade English language arts teacher Rebecca Grober, who has built an annual unit around poetry with a focus on haiku.
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