What is Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education (CRSE)?
The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning, develop students' abilities to connect across lines of difference: elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change.
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Four Principles of CRSE:
Principle #1: Welcoming and Affirming Environments:
A welcoming and affirming environment feels safe. Safety is complex...it is phyiscal, emotional, intellectual.
- It is a space where people are represented and reflected.
- People are treated with respect and dignity.
- The environment ensures all cultural identities (i.e. race. ethnicity, disability, language, religion, age. gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background) are affirmed, valued, and used to drive teaching and learning.
Principle #2: High Expectations and Rigorous Instruction:
In an environment that has high expectations and rigorous instruction…
- Academically Rigorous: Requires deep thinking.
- Intellectually Challenging: Goes beyond memorization, pushes students to analyze and apply knowledge.
- Differentiated Instruction: Meets various learning styles and paces.
- Critical Thinking & Growth Mindset: Encourages questioning, analysis, and provide opportunities to reflect and learn from mistakes.
- Positive & Empowering Culture: Promotes self-belief and support for others' success. “I am walking potential!”
Principle #3: Inclusive Curriculum and Assessment:
Elevates historically marginalized voices.
- Fosters an understanding of power and privilege within various communities.
- Equips learners to be agents of positive social change.
- Provides opportunities to explore perspectives beyond one's own, dismantling systems of bias and inequities
- De-centers dominant ideologies.
Principle #4: Ongoing Professional Learning
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