Zaretta Hammond's most famous work is her book Culturally-Responsive Teaching and The Brain.  What does culturally-responsive teaching have to do with neuroscience?  Everything, it turns out!  Ms. Hammond explains the difference between multicultural education, social justice teaching, culturally-relevant pedagogy, and culturally-responsive teaching.  She stresses that cultural responsiveness is not about a program or a toolkit.  Instead, it is about the ways that we engage with students, building upon schema, to help them carry the cognitive load.  

Some highlights:

So what we've done is we've actually created this magical thinking around the tools and the methodology of culturally responsive practice versus understanding the science of learning behind it.

...the way inequity was designed was to underdevelop cognitive capacity of Black and Brown and Indigenous children

You're becoming the personal trainer of their cognitive development. But remember the first step of that trainer-personal trainer relationship with a new client is building rapport.

Errors are information, not confirmation of low intelligence. This is something teachers need to be saying and doing. 

...culturally responsive teaching is an integrated set of processes, structures, and interactions that over time build the students' capacity. We can't keep talking about it like it's things that you can just reach in a bag and actually get and ...pull out.  

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