Culturally Responsive Teaching

Cheryl Medearis

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What is “culturally responsive” teaching?
  2. What are the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and how did they come about?
  3. How did the WoLakota Project come about? What are its guiding goals and principles?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. Who would you consider to be your “mentor” in teaching? In life? What have you learned from these people?
  2. Who has modeled for you? For who do you model? What does good modeling include and how does it work?
  3. Who made a difference in your life? Whose life do you have an opportunity to make a difference in? Are you?
  4. How do you open the way for different “ways of knowing” in your classroom?