Dr. Yolanda Sealey - Ruiz 
Columbia University 

Racial Identity and Culturally Responsive Teaching

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This professional development series invites participants to reflect on their experiences as teachers and further develop their pedagogy to make it more racially and culturally reflective of their students, and provide them with an opportunity to discuss how race, curriculum, pedagogy, and their own identities impact their classroom instruction. 

Racial literacy (RL), an area of expertise for Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, provides one lens for viewing the effects race has on the daily lives of teachers and students. Most important, it provides a sustainable foundation for culturally responsive pedagogy to be developed. This deliberate focus on race and its connection to culture and learning seeks to foreground the realities of living in a racialized society, and how this affects the teaching and learning process. As such, the purpose of this series is to build the racial literacy for educators.