Rationale: Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) has been shown to improve students’ learning (Bassey, 2016), help students discover their interests and talents, build relationships (Bassey, 2016), increase participation and communication (Chen & Yang, 2017), and result in higher rates of positive student behavior (Lars, Pas, Bradshaw, Rosenberg &Vines, 2013). As such, faculty may choose to incorporate Culturally Responsive Teaching pedagogies and techniques into their course and assignment design.

The project: You will design a CRT learning activity for your own course utilizing the SPISE model of Culturally Responsive Teaching framework. You will then present your learning activity at a follow-up community of practice session where the workshop coaches and fellow participants will provide feedback on your activity. You will also be given tools to help you assess the re-designed activity as implemented in your course.

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