Cultural Responsiveness
Are all students benefiting equally from our teaching & discipline? The culturally responsive outcome for schools implementing PBIS is to to create safe, respectful, effective and relevant social cultures where successful teaching and learning are possible and problem behaviors are prevented.
Culture is defined by the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors and material objects that are passed from one generation to another. If culture is not considered, multi-tiered frameworks run the risk of intervention practices working only for some students.This promotes inequitable education access, outcomes, and the continuation of the disproportional representation of culturally diverse students who are suspended and expelled.
2012-08-20
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What does culturally responsive PBIS look like?
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Establish Commitment
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- District and school wide commitment to addressing racial and ethnic disparities
- Administrative support and active involvement
- Faculty and all staff support
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Establish and Maintain Team
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- Representative team established, racial and ethnic diversity, administrator, teachers,
- general education, special education, families
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Self-Assessment
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- Surveys and interviews on culture
- Disaggregated disciplinary data
- Hypothesis about data that include culture
- Develop culturally responsive interventions
- Strength based
- Action plan developed and presented to faculty
- Implementation fidelity
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School-wide Expectations
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- Examine interaction of culture and school
- How does a cultural perspective affect instruction and management?
- Teach with awareness of cultural differences
- Bridge the gap between school and home behavioral expectations
- Define school-wide behavior expectations
- Plan to teach expectations
- Reinforcement system
- Define consequences for behavior concern
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Establish Information Systems
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- Disaggregate outcome data
- To what extent has intervention worked for all groups?
- How does awareness of culture affect teaching?
- System for gathering information
- Process for summarizing data
- Process for using information for decision-making
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Build Capacity for F-B Behavior
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- Text-based discussion and PLCs to enhance awareness of culture
- Institutional procedures for ensuring ongoing dialogue
- Personnel with behavioral expertise
- Team and procedures for identification, assessment and implementation
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