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Classroom to Community and Back:

Using Culturally Responsive Standards-Based (CRSB) Teaching to Strengthen Family and Community Partnerships and Increase Student Achievement

The way to improve education and society is to make schooling more central to family and community, while making family and community more central to schooling
(Bronfenbrenner, 1985).

This 179 page resource guide is

• available for sale, as well as
• available as a free PDF file (what is a PDF?)

Classroom to Community and Back is a practitioner's guide to strategies that draw on the knowledge, skills, experiences, and culture of family and community members in order to meet academic standards and enhance learning for all students. The guide focuses on how educators can tap into the culture of the students' family and community in ways that enrich teaching and learning, increase their relevance to students, and engage the entire community. This, in turn, will improve partnerships, first, by creating a standards-based curriculum that brings family and community culture into the classroom and the school in meaningful ways and, second, by improving family and community partnerships to support educational experiences outside the school.

This guide introduces culturally responsive, standards-based (CRSB) teaching and provides ideas and planning tools to implement it in the classroom or within a program. Culturally Responsive, Standards-Based Teaching looks at the convergence of practices in three areas: culturally responsive teaching, standards-based teaching, and family-community partnerships. The implementation of these research-based, effective strategies in all three areas will enhance student engagement and motivation, create academic rigor and challenging curriculum, and improve school-family-community partnerships (intermediate outcomes), which in turn will increase student achievement and youth success (ultimate outcome).

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