"Culturally Responsive Teaching is one of our most powerful tools for helping students find their way out of the achievement gap. An educator's ability to recognize students' cultural displays of learning and meaning making and respond positively and constructively with teaching moves that use cultural knowledge as a scaffold to connect what the student know to new concepts and content in order to promote effective information processing. All the while, the educator understands the importance of being in a relationship and having a social-emotional connection to the student in order to create a safe space for learning."

Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain   
Zaretta Hammond   

IDRA EAC-South Resources Information on the demographic diversity gap, achieving integrated schooling, recruiting and retaining teachers and more. 

Ready for Rigor by Zaretta Hammond

Harvard University-Project Implicit 

Courageous Conversations about Race by Glenn Singleton

Cultivating Genius, An Equity Framework For Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice by Geneva Gay

Using Understanding by Design in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom by Amy Heineke & Jay McTighe

All Students Must Thrive by Tyrone Howard

But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy by Gloria Ladson-Billings

The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children 2nd Edition by Gloria Ladson-Billings

Using Correct Pronouns and Names