With changing demographics, socio-cultural and linguistic landscapes are shifting, prompting educators to adjust their curricula and expand their understanding of the world to account for their students’ lived realities. Despite the diversity of the students present in their classrooms, there is often inequity in whose histories, heritages, experiences, and ways of knowing are valued and included in the curricula.

Participants in this webinar will explore how they can cultivate culturally responsive classrooms by engaging their city’s diverse communal spaces as teaching canvases to reshape how knowledge is constructed, represented, and taught in K–12 classrooms. The purpose of this webinar is threefold: (1) to reimagine teaching and learning by going beyond traditional classrooms and textbooks; (2) to affirm students’ diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic identities and; (3) to encourage global learning and equity mindsets during a time in which the country is grappling with nativist attitudes as well as racial tensions and violence. Participants will learn how they can foster equity-consciousness in their classrooms by exposing and redressing social and historical exclusionary practices that shape real lives.

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