How do we support states, districts, and schools to ensure that educators engage in ongoing professional learning to deepen their knowledge in culturally responsive teaching and leading practices? In creating a technical assistance training program, Westat  answers 2 questions:

• Does culturally responsive teaching and leading impact student achievement?
• How can culturally responsive teaching and leading serve as a vehicle for effective teaching and student learning?

• Westat offers equitable and effective teaching and leading practices to education groups.
• The training includes a high-quality learning series on culturally responsive teaching and leading, ensuring that
  • Each student learns and achieves at high levels
  • Students’ culture, home languages, and lived experiences are honored, including the unique ways in which each student is smart
  • Legitimizes the student voice in the learning process
• Westat evaluates the impact of the implementation of culturally responsive teacher and leading practices within organizations. 
• Check out these motivational videos supported by our work: That Noble Title: “Teacher” & And How Are the Children?

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• Culturally responsive teaching and leading serves as the foundation to design differentiated, rigorous, high-quality, and engaging instructional academic programming. The programming, in turn, supports the unique learning needs of each student, honoring and using students’ cultural and linguistic capital as a vehicle for effective teaching and learning. 
• Westat training and evaluation in this area results in a higher level of awareness, sensitivity, and implementation of best practices at all levels of educational practice.