Now, you’re ready to consider the mirrors and windows in your own curriculum.

Explore

Take some time to explore the following resources, which all apply a culturally responsive and sustaining lens to course content.

Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecards (The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools): This tool, developed collaboratively by New York City parents, students, educators, and researchers, helps determine the extent to which curricula in English language arts (ELA) and science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) are (or are not) culturally responsive.
Assessing Bias in Standards and Curricular Materials (Great Lake Equity Center): This resource enables users to determine the extent to which developed standards and curricular materials reflect educational equity. The tool provides guidance on reviewing standards and curricular materials using equity-oriented domains. It includes a scoring and analysis guide to assist with the evaluation process.

Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards: A K–12 framework for antibias education, the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards are categorized into four main categories (identity, diversity, justice, and action).
Learning for Justice Learning Plan Builder: This offers educators the chance to create lesson plans around the social justice standards with many teaching ideas and supplementary texts.

What stands out to you after reviewing these resources?

Want to Go Deeper? (Optional activity)

Read Historically Responsive Literacy: A More Complete Education for All Students (Gonzalez, 2020) to learn more about an additional culturally responsive curricular framework. This framework was developed by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, a professor, former middle school teacher, and author of Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy.