Culturally Responsive Teaching by Z.Hammond my Reflections on Chapter 1 & 2

Culturally Responsive Teaching Reflection on Hammond Chapter 1

After reading the first Chapter, I was inspired as an A.Principal of Middle School to reach out to My literacy coach and tackle Chapter 1. I hope we can have meaningful dialogue around the framework as well as the importance of diving in.

Framework from Ch. 1 here:

http://ready4rigor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/READY-FOR-RIGOR_Final1.pdf

Quote from Chapter 2:

P.31
"Over time, because of structural racialization in education, we have seen a new type of intellectual apartheid happening in schools, creating dependent learners who cannot access the curriculum and independent learners who have had the opportunity to build the cognitive skills to deep learning on their own. Rather than stepping back, looking at the ways we structure inequity in education, and interrupting these practices, we simply focus on creating short-term solutions to get dependent students of color to score high on each year's standardized tests. We don't focus on building their intellective capacity so they they can begin to fill their own language gaps with proper scaffolding."

- I find this quote resonated deeply with me.  I feel like the individualist values I've place in education in my own daughter in order to succeed has been huge.  She is definitely a part of this intellectual apartheid by the nature of me as an educator knowing how to play the game of education so it benefits her in the long run. As I see what this means for me as an Educational leader, I grapple with the deficit model thinking I encounter among educators and how the reinforce this thinking when teaching becomes ultra-challenging in their classroom. Blaming the student or family vs. having to rethink their own practices.