Guidelines for a Culturally Responsive Curriculum

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We are so excited to collaborate with everyone again this year to serve all of our diverse learners to help them achieve maximum growth. As DeEtta mentioned in her presentation, we are all at different stages on the spectrum of cultural competence, and THAT IS OKAY!!!

Developing intercultural competence is both a professional and a personal pursuit. Therefore, in an effort to help all of the amazing professionals focus their professional growth on serving all of diverse learners, I wanted to share this table of reflective questions that can help guide your professional learning and support for diverse learners. Feel free to use it as a reflective piece (I know that I constantly engage in many of these questions thinking about my own evolving practice) or invite us to work collaboratively with you.

We look forward to this school year!

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