New White Paper Series on Culturally Sustaining and Relevant Education Provides Guidance to Teachers, Policymakers, and Scholars

A growing body of research shows students learn best when they feel a sense of belonging and when teachers recognize and draw on cultural and community-aligned ways of thinking, doing, and learning. This research calls for new approaches to teaching and learning, centering the social and emotional needs of learners, and teaching in ways that incorporate communities and families. To help clarify what we know from this body of research, the Spencer Foundation commissioned a series of white papers summarizing the research on teaching and learning practices across content areas that have been referred to as culturally sustaining and/or culturally relevant.

Collectively these papers are designed to help educators, policymakers, and scholars make sense of what we know from this growing, complex, and urgent field of research.

Read them here!