KIm's CRT Teacher Toolkit

 1.     ISTE Video: Creating a Culturally Responsive Classroom by Alicia Discepola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VixB5WBiLqE                                                                       Summary : This video highlights importance of educators reaching the families/parents of our students simultaneously as we get to know our students. It emphasizes that a stable and culturally responsive learning environment is one that reaches into the homes of our students and highlights the necessity of digital technology within classroom culture as a means of doing so. Thus, keeping families engaged and in tune with educational journey of their children and daily classroom activities and events.                          ...

                    1.  Dear Teacher, Video by Students with Special Needs and Disabilities  https://youtu.be/lTMLzXzgB_s                                                                                                                                                                                Summary: This video provides and presents students of all different color, age, and size the opportunity to ...

 1. Colorin Colorado- 8 Strategies for Building Relationships with ELL's in any Learning Environment Summary: Colorin Colorado is a billingual site that for educators and families of English Language learners that provides strategies on how to approach ELL lingustic development, how to best support them and their needs within the classroom, and most importantly how to connect with their families in the most meaningful ways. Colorin Colorado provides useful books, authors, guides and tips to help educators who are teaching, supporting ELL students.  Rationale: This website is perfect and a necessary tool for my teacher toolkit because it provides a myriad of articles, readings and even a series of book collection and authors that showcase and pinpoint how to best serve ELL'S. This website focuses on the different settings, learning environments and even abilities that often times come into play when serving ELL's and how to best serve and adapt to their needs. This website p...

                                   1.        The Skin That We Speak by Lisa Delpit                                                                                                                                                                Summary: The Skin That We Speak is a collection of anecdotes and scholarly advice from passionate educators that highlight the myriad of ways ...

       1. Culturally Responsive Colorful Sign Saying "Hello" in all Different Languages                                                                                                    Rationale This sign would serve as a form of welcome/greeting to both students and parenst from different racial an ethnic backgrounds that come into my classroom. This type of culturally responsive decor would serve as a sense of welcome to our families of their cultures, and language and even as a reminder that they are seen,  and acknowledged upon coming into my classroom. This type of sign also communicates that there is room for languages such as these within my classroom space. ...