Ready for Rigor Framework
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The centerpiece of Zaretta Hammond’s book, Cultural Responsive Teaching & the Brain (2015), is the Ready for Rigor Framework, which contains four practice areas of Culturally Responsive Teaching. The four practice areas include:
Awareness
Learning Partnerships
Information Processing
Community of Learners and Learning Environment.
Each practice area is separate but interdependent and connected through the principles of brain-based learning. These practices create social, emotional and cognitive conditions that allow students to engage and take ownership of their own learning process.
This link to the Ready for Rigor Framework provides information on each of the practice areas. Moving through each practice area will help teachers build capacity and support their understanding of culturally responsive teaching. By mastering this framework teachers learn to:
Identify and understand their own sociopolitical position
Develop their social/emotional response to student diversity
Establish authentic connections that build mutual trust and respect
Leverage trust to support students with high expectations and intellectual challenges
Understand and appreciate how culture influences the brain’s information processing
Integrate learning to build students’ brain power that mirrors their culture
Embed cultural practices that create a social and intellectual safe space
Integrate cultural themes that reinforce students moving from dependent to independent learning
Future TXTS4 Teachers posts will dive deeper into these practice areas, so stay tuned!
Hammond, Z. (2015). Climbing out of the gap. In Hammond, Z & Jackson, Y. , Culturally responsive teaching and the brain: Promoting authentic engagement and rigor among culturally and linguistically diverse students (pp. 14-15). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, a SAGE Company.