Pedagogical Lensescs-coaching-knowledge-base.md

Culturally Responsive Education

Front: Culturally responsive-sustaining computer science pedagogy ensures that students' interests, identities, and cultures are embraced and validated, students develop knowledge of computing content and its utility in the world, strong CS identities are developed, and students engage in larger socio-political critiques about technology's purpose, potential, and impact.

Back: Offer additional resources and training in CRE to help teachers examine their own cultural context and how it informs their teaching. Discuss teachers' knowledge of the school community and of individual student's cultures. If needed, provide ideas for how to deepen that understanding. Throughout the coaching cycle, have conversations with teachers about connections between CS content and students' community and prior knowledge. Ask questions that provoke reflection and iteration around the classroom environment and instruction and how they relate to culture, and encourage teachers to do the same with their students.

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