Establish a Culturally Responsive Community for English Language Learners

Presented By: Celina Acham Jossie Montolio

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What is Culture? (Hassall, 1995)

A system of shared ideas and meaning, explicit and implicit, which a people use to interpret the world and which serve to pattern their behavior (Hassall, 1995).

Culture is made up of values, laws, rules, social categories, tacit models, assumptions and fundamentals (Ebrey, 1981).

Text: Racial Gaps in Student Achievement Could Be a Cultural Bias, School Leaders Say (Navas, 2009)

BiasExploring Bias

Address Bias

Text: Very Few Blacks, Hispanics Admitted To Top Public Schools (Mallory, 2011)

Culture of AccessCulture of Exclusion

Where Education and Assimilation Collide (Thompson, 2009)

Due to the NCLBA, all students are provided an education regardless of backgrounds.

“Immigrant students have fueled the public school system since the baby boom”.

Immigrant students are often segregated within the schools.

Friction amongst cultures occurs.Immigration Laws effect students learning.

Assimilation

It is important to assimilate both immigrant children and native children.

Two-way immersion programs are a necessity in order to integrate all children.

In order to bridge the gap, teachers and other stakeholders need to really understand the “melting pot” concept.

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Schools Populated with Minorties Are Among Nation’s Best High Schools (Burnsed, 2010)

Most top American Public Schools are heterogeneous.

Top ranking schools have high minority percentage.

Students perform better in a heterogeneous environment

Research conducted based by region and ethnic backgrounds of students.

Pigments of Our Imagination: The Racialization of the Hispanic-Latino Category (Rumbaut, 2011)

“Race is a pigment of our imagination”

Racial categories serve to distinguish “us from them”.

The terms Latino’s and Hispanics is only a US context.

Hispanic and Latino groups are made up of new comers and old timers.

Racial identification is dependent on what regions they are concentrated.