About Us
How We Serve
The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning is a non-profit organization that aims to create cultural and linguistic responsiveness for underserved populations in schools, in the workspace, and in communities. CLR is for everyone.
Who We Are
CCRTL has existed as a non-profit organization since January 2004. 20 years later, the Center has provided professional learning experiences to almost 200,000 educators from Seattle to Jacksonville to Ithaca to San Diego and many places in between, including Canada.
We have teamed up with schools and districts around the country in service to increasing the level of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning.
CCRTL exists to make cultural responsiveness a meaningful aspect of everyday life for education, businesses, and government.
200K
People experienced professional learning in CLR
20+
Years providing professional learning
4000+
Classrooms influenced
300K
Students impacted
The Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning (CCRTL) has achieved remarkable success by applying Culturally Responsive Learning (CLR) to transform stagnant situations. Through CLR, CCRTL effectively informs stakeholders, shapes policies, and drives meaningful progress.
Voices of Our CLR Educators
“Your messages were highly captivating. Your discourse on linguistics taken from a cultural perspective was refreshing, I have not heard topic discussion on language presented in such a manner before that resonated well. Mr Hollie, thank you for your mind and your steadfast insights to reshaping and refocusing our lens when addressing culture. I am inspired.”
"I saw students come alive, smile, laugh, and enjoy my math class. Before using these strategies, I felt like I was teaching/talking to myself. Class was long, boring and I (and the students) were frustrated. I know where my students are academically because I am listening to them talk, think, collaborate, and create more."
“This day could not have been possible without your dedication and commitment to the important work around equity and I can not thank you enough for sharing your time during such a busy time of year in our field.”
You were so engaging and inspiring. You make a daily difference
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Your CLR Guide
Dr. Sharroky Hollie
Dr. Sharroky Hollie is a national educator who provides professional development to thousands of educators in the area of cultural responsiveness.
In 2003, he and two colleagues founded the Culture and Language Academy of Success, a laboratory school that demonstrated the principles of cultural responsiveness in an exemplary school-wide model, which operated until 2013.
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I really appreciated his advice yesterday that being truly CLR means adapting to the culture whatever it is. That pushed me to step outside of the limitations I'd unconsciously put on what CLR pedagogy can and should be, and to VABB that lesson when I got home yesterday evening.
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Meet Our Team
Our advisers have helped train staff all across the nation. They are our secret weapon and seasoned professionals, who have been working in the area of cultural responsiveness from first-hand experience, in the classroom, and have shaped the way many teachers teach CLR in their classrooms.
