Inclusive Education

This article introduces teachers to culturally sustaining practices (CSP). It explains the what, why, and how of CSP.

This article shares different types of metacognitive strategies for use in the classroom. Within this article are additional resources for students to reflect on their learning and for educators to use to promote metacognition in their classrooms.

Larry Ferlazzo, Django Paris, and H. Samy Alim discuss their book "Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies." They share the distinction between culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogy and the harm done when teachers claim to “not see color."

Students share their experiences with Universal Design for Learning at Karori Normal School in New Zealand. They appreciate being offered choices and the ability to work at a different pace depending on their understanding of the material.

Teachers from Karori Normal School in New Zealand share how they used space as a way to give students different options as to where they work. They also discuss how they used Universal Design for Learning when lesson planning.

This article by Nancy Chick provides an overview of metacognition and putting it into practice. She shares how to develop a classroom grounded in metacognition and stresses the importance of explicit instruction.