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[|Culturally Responsive Teaching] A web site called the Knowledge Loom, with content presented by The Education Alliance at Brown University. The question, "What is culturally responsive teaching?" is answered via these topics: Communication of High Expectations, Active Teaching Methods, Teacher as Facilitator, Positive Perspectives on Parents and Families of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, Cultural Sensitivity, Reshaping the Curriculum, Culturally Mediated Instruction, Student-Controlled Classroom Discourse, and Small Group Instruction and Academically-Related Discourse.

[|Teaching Diverse Schools Initiative] The Teaching Diverse Students Initiative is a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The goal of TDSI is to help educators enhance the learning opportunities, especially the quality of teaching, experienced by students of color. SPLC is working with professional associations (e.g., the American Association for Teacher Education and the National Education Association), prominent scholars and expert educators to develop and implement the Initiative. The SPLC Teaching Diverse Students Initiative (TDSi) is unique in its focus on how educators can improve their professional skills, understandings, and dispositions that are especially relevant to the race and ethnicity of their students. The Initiative has developed a suite of tools to enhance teacher effectiveness and student opportunities to learn, at the center of which are interactive multi-media professional development resources.
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