massachusetts partnership for diversity

The Importance of Minority Teachers: Student Perceptions of Minority Versus White Teachers

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0013189X16671718

Returning To The Classroom With A New Focus On Social And Emotional Learning

https://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/09/13/commentary-social-emotional-learning

About Massachusetts Partnership for Diversity in Education

Our Focus is Cultural Competencies

To Help Educators Close Achievement Gaps American classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse. As NEA President Dennis Van Roekel has noted, “Educators with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to value the diversity among students will contribute to an educational system designed to serve all students well.”
Cultural competence is a key factor in enabling educators to be effective with students from cultures other than their own. Cultural competence is having an awareness of one’s own cultural identity and views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on the varying cultural and community norms of students and their families. It is the ability to understand the within-group differences that make each student unique, while celebrating the between-group variations that make our country a tapestry. This understanding informs and expands teaching practices in the culturally competent educator’s classroom. -NEA Website, 2017

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