Goals and Objectives of this Course:

• Use prompts about culturally inclusive literacy practices to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional education practice and growth.
• Design a culturally inclusive lesson plan to honor students’ home languages and linguistic diversity.
• Collaborate with a colleague to develop a family and community engagement initiative or engage with families through the use of student and family surveys to inform instruction.
• Implement culturally inclusive reading and writing lesson plans.
• Challenge the status quo related to inequitable school practices and policies by investigating current policies for bias or creating an action plan to combat harmful coded language in schools.
• Audit your classroom practices by investigating your current curriculum or classroom library.
• Apply culturally inclusive tools for supporting students’ literacy growth.