Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Bling Groups

Hello if you've clicked on this, and that means that

you are ready to start your culturally responsive teaching and

learning journey.

Now, as I talked through each book, I want you

to really think about and be really reflective on if

it is the right book for you.

You know, we can say that about shoes.

We can say that about clothes, you know.

Are these the right will ends?

This is the right look.

We have to say that same thing about books and

especially culturally responsive ones.

I don't want you to teach.

Choose something because you think it sounds good because everybody

else was choosing it.

I want you to really, really think about the books

that are being offered.

And you have to make a decision and decide where

you are on this journey so that you can get

the most out of this.

Okay, so let's get started Less fine.

The best choice book for you, The very first both

that we're gonna look at is called how to teach

students who don't look like you buy Bunny and Davis.

This, when I would say, is the beginning start of

your cultural awareness journey um was she does in this

book is she provides definitions for cultural responsive teaching.

What it is, what it is not.

And she also has your journal and think about the

process along the way.

She does give you strategies that you can try but

nothing too overwhelming just things that can help make you

the better you.

So this is what I would like to start off

with because even the title was great.

How to teach students Who Don't look like you.

This is not just how to teach one ethnic group

of students.

This is any group of students that look very different

from you.

OK, so let's keep going.

Let's go to the next book.

This book is we got this by Cornelius Minor.

Now I say this is the next step of your

journey because what community is minor is gonna do is

he's going to teach you how to listen and see

Children who don't look like you or who sometimes look

like you.

He's going to teach you to kind of think beyond

and give you strategies and help because one part of

the culture responsive teaching peace is to actually be a

listener to be the best listener for our Children so

that you can hear them in ways that you weren't

prepared to hear them before.

Okay, let's look at the next book.

The next book is called Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

Now, if you've heard the term systemic racism and you're

trying to figure out what that means, then this is

the book for you.

You also heard the term from preschool pre school to

prison pipeline, and you've been trying to figure out what

in the world is that mean?

Everybody keeps talking about it, but what does that mean

than just mercy is the right book for you?

Because what Bryan Stevenson does is he's gonna break down

with systemic racism is he's going to show you how

this preschool to Pipeline on Theory works, and he is

going to do it with riel, live accounts and stories

so that you can understand exactly what he's talking about.

OK, let's keep going on the next step.

If you look at this book and you look at

the title and you cringe me and white supremacy, then

you you should, um, part of culture.

Responsive teaching is getting outside of your comfort zone, and

this book is meant to be outside of your comfort

zone. But I have to tell you a secret.

So get a little closer come a little closer.

Yeah. Even though this book was written by a black

female Layla Sayyed is actually a book written for white

people. That's why it's called me and white supremacy.

You might have a concept of what you think.

White supremacy is in your mind.

What she's gonna do is break that down for you

so that you can understand it's day today, things that

we take for granted.

So what she has done is she has set it

up. Where's the 28 day journaling process where you read

you journal?

You read your journal, you process and you don't take

that journey alone.

So if you're ready and you need to be ready,

because this is one of those books that it requires

you to do the hard work.

If you're ready, then this is the book choice for

you. Now the next book is called Stamped First Office,

written by Jason Reynolds.

Anything written by Jason Reynolds is going to be amazing,

but what he does in this book is he that

has you think about systemic racism in history.

He starts all the way at the beginning of historical

happenings up into the present day timeline of events.

And he has this kind of thing through how races,

races, practice.

This have systemically been put in place throughout history and

how the stories of who tells that and who gets

to decide kind of shape us.

Now. You have to be ready for this book because

it's not an easy book, just like the one previous

one. It's not easy book.

This is not where I would start my journey.

But this is definitely a place that I would go

if I already know what cultural responsive teaching is.

I've already worked on me a little bit.

Now I'm ready to kind of understand and see past

that to see other people's perspectives, because this is what

is going to do is gonna take your perspective of

what you've gotten in school about historical happenings, and it's

going to completely change that.

So you need to be ready for that for that.

That piece of information now, This is also a next

level type of book.

This is we want to do more than survive abolitionist

teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom written by patina

l love.

Now, if you've ever watched a podcast by her, then

you know that she does not care about sparing your

feelings was she cares about in this book in particular

is she wants you to be a abolitionist teacher and

abolitionist teachers, one who's gonna advocate for their students.

They're gonna change your lifestyle.

So when you think of a diet and you think,

hear people say you can diet if you want to,

or you could do a lifestyle change this book is

the lifestyle change, and she does not sugar coat or

how you need to, you know, consider this lifestyle change

is 100% the lifestyle change.

So if you're ready to change what you say, how

you say it when you say it, who you say

it to, This is the story that will help you

kind of reach that journey.

Okay, then.

This is the last book that is an option.

I want to bring it up.

This book was actually put in my hand this couple

weeks ago By Debra Reese.

This year it's by Sarah Ah Mead, and it's called

Being the change Lessons and strategies to Teach social comprehension.

It's a great read.

It is a easy read in the sense that is

going to provide you with strategies, lessons, activities and things

that you can take and do in your classroom tomorrow.

It starts with having kids kind of think about their

identities and build upon that to be them but their

best Selves.

But I left this book for the end for a

reason. Okay, The reason this book is the last book

on this journey is because this book is about Children

working on themselves.

And if you have done the hard work of working

on yourself, then you can ask kids to do the

hard work of working on themselves.

But if you have not decided to take a journey

that leads you down this road of these books, that

puts you in the mind of what is going on

so that you can speak better toe what cultural responsive

teaching is and what cultural responsive learning is.

Then you're not ready for that book to just flip

it back into the classroom yet.

But if you are ready for that, you've done the

hard work.

You're ready for that journey That that is an excellent

choice book for you.

So whatever you decide to do, please know that we

are taking this journey together.

There will be times and parts of it that will

be uncomfortable.

That will take you outside of your box and your

comfort zone.

But at the end of it, you will be a

much better person.

You will be the best.

You so decide which book works for you and let's

start this cultural, responsive teaching and learning journey together by

Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Bling Groups

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