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Culturally Responsive Teaching focuses on building through rigor, resilience & growth mindset. In the TEACH section you can see how the Four Affirmations & Courageous Conversations Compass connect to classroom caucuses that foster dialogue


​How Do I Assess Students Growth
Around Global Competency?

In addition to my rubrics for assessing academic thinking and growth mindset, my favorite external resource for assessment is from the Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World.
The Global Education Checklist, above, is another great resource for educators looking to foster reflection and grow in their facilitation of Global Education


​What Digital Tools Do I Most Rely On To Develop Global Competency?

1.Google Apps For Education is the go to set of resources for helping facilitate a Cagebusting Classroom. If you visit the TEACH section you can see how my students used Google Forms to create our participatory budgeting ballot, to capture their classmates’ votes by sharing the form to students’ email address and to analyze the results of the election.

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2.Padlet allows students and teachers to calibrate current events articles and share their learning. Above you can see how my students evaluate the news for media bias. Below you can see the protocols students use to participate in current events discussion circles.
3.Newspaper Map allows students to search for newspaper articles by location. Students use this resource in to prepare for their current events discussion circles. In order to foster students ability to assess multiple points of view, students must use different newspapers to analyze contemporary world events from multiple perspectives and how audience and purpose connects to point of view. Additionally, to better understand multiple perspectives connected to political ideology within America, Flipside provides article quotes on a daily issue from both conservative and liberal media.
4.iCivics. Leave it to Ruth Bader Ginsberg to collaborate on a website that contains civics games that students actually enjoy and builds academic skills. I encourage students to play at least three games, Immigration Nation, Win The White House & Be The Jury in conjunction with our three units of study.
5. Quizlet. One of the biggest academic challenges my students face is establishing contextualization in their writing quickly and concisely so they can spend more time analyzing multiple points of view and arguing a thesis. If students develop their academic vocabularies, they are more successful writers. My students use quizlet to collaboratively and competitively preview unit vocabulary in class and for individually self study. Here are links to the quizlet vocabulary for my Economics unit on: To what extent is Investment Gambling? and my Government’s unit: To what extent should justice be left up to a jury?