Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogical perspective oriented towards placing a student's cultural and social identity at the center of an educational process meant to affirm and develop a student's academic achievement, cultural competence, and critical consciousness.
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"Classroom teachers and other educators need to understand that achievement, or lack thereof, is an experience of an accomplishment. It is not the totality of a student's personal identity, or the essence of his or her human worth."
- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research and Practice
- Geneva Gay, Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research and Practice