Cultural Relevancy

How does the instructional design encourage students to employ higher order thinking skills beyond mere recall?

• Rigor
• Engagement
• Cultural Identity
• Relationships
• Asset-Focused Factors

How does instruction engage students behaviorally (do), affectively (feel), & cognitively (think)?

• Relationships
• Engagement
• Cultural Identity
• Rigor
• Asset-Focused Factors

How are student's strengths (in terms of process and content knowledge and also dispositions and interests) leveraged in instruction?

• Asset-Focused Factors
• Cultural Identity
• Relationships
• Rigor
• Engagement

How does the lesson and instructional design encourage appropriate risk-taking?

• Vulnerability
• Cultural Identity
• Relationships
• Rigor
• Engagement

How does the lesson and instructional design further build community in the classroom?

• Relationships
• Cultural Identity
• Rigor
• Engagement
• Asset-Focused Factors

How does instruction allow students to draw from their cultural resource library?

• Cultural Identity
• Relationships
• Rigor
• Engagement
• Asset-Focused Factors

Learning experience and assessment allow for multiple methods of demonstration of understanding

• Cultural Identity
• Engagement
• Asset-Focused Factors
• Relationships
• Rigor

The learning experience ensures every student has an opportunity for contributions and to learn from their classmates

• Cultural Identity
• Relationships
• Engagement
• Rigor
• Asset-Focused Factors

Students are provided with access to and platforms for publication as well as interaction with the work of their classmates

• Relationships
• Engagement
• Vulnerability
• Cultural Identity
• Rigor