Culturally Responsive Math
Using the Ready for Rigor framework, Zaretta Hammond’s book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students gives educators a neuroscience-based approach to closing the achievement gap. The Ready for Rigor framework consists of four strands: awareness, learning partnerships, information processing, and community building. Acknowledging that all four strands are paramount to culturally responsive teaching but restricting focus to information processing, this session will give participants examples of and strategies for making their mathematics lessons more culturally responsive. More specifically, participants will learn to game-ify it, story-ify it, and make it social.