Cultural+inclusion

Culturally responsive schools exhibit the following traits:
 * The curriculum content is inclusive, meaning it reflects the cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity of society and the world.
 * Instructional and assessment practices build on the students' prior knowledge, culture, and language.
 * Classroom practices stimulate students to construct knowledge, make meaning, and examine cultural biases and assumptions.
 * Schoolwide beliefs and practices foster understanding and respect for cultural diversity, and celebrate the contributions of diverse groups.
 * School programs and instructional practices draw from and integrate community and family language and culture, and help families and communities to support the students' academic success.

Adapted from //Strategic Teaching and Reading Project Guidebook//. (NCREL, 1995, rev. ed.).

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