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Journey to Responsiveness
We are all on the journey to be responsive to the students and communities who need it the most. CCRTL supports and guides your journey, keeping you on the path.
On The Journey,
We Validate & Affirm
Being on the CLR journey means making a commitment to shifting your mindset around cultural and linguistic behaviors to be validating and affirming and to improving your skillset to practice the act of validation and affirmation
An underserved student is any student who is not successful academically, socially, and/or behaviorally in school because the school as an institution is not being responsive to the student.
A definite area of agreement in education is the persistent failure of schools to equitably educate all children, in particular African Americans and Latinos.
Ultimately, CLR challenges this persistent failure through validation and affirmation of cultures and languages that have been historically disenfranchised and marginalized.
Our work exists because our educational system, as is, continues to underserve too many of our students, particularly African American and Latino children. We offer an alternative – a pedagogy grounded in the systemic validation of home culture and language as the basis for teaching and as a bridge to standards-based learning.
We Change our Mindsets, Improve our Skillsets
The first way is the change in mindset. As the initial step to changing the instructional dynamic in the classroom and the overall school climate, educators have to see their students’ cultural and linguistic behaviors. A change in mindset is rooted in four areas: speaking a common language, listening to your deficit monitor, knowing your race-ethno cultural identity, and identifying the students who are in most need of cultural responsiveness.
Going to Where Students Are
Culturally & Linguistically
CLR is metaphorically diving into the pool and getting into the water with your students; you are meeting your students where they are culturally and linguistically.
As mentioned previously, U.S. schooling is based on the sink‑or‑swim approach. You have some students who are simply good swimmers, meaning they “do” school well. On the other hand, you have some students who are not good swimmers or are not swimmers at all. These students don’t do school “well.”
Dive in the CLR Pool
Courses & Workshops
Start Your Responsiveness Journey
Whether online or in-person, the CLR professional learning experiences will move your journey to the next level.