We speak with Dr. David E. Kirkland, Executive Director of NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. A leading voice in culturally responsive and sustaining education, the Metro Center helped write New York State Education Department’s new Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework. The Framework is founded on a view of education that regards culture as a critical component of learning. Multiple expressions of diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender, language, and sexual orientation, are regarded as assets to be recognized and cultivated.

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References

Click here to learn more about the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework. 

Overview

00:00-01:08 Intros

01:09-05:36 Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework and its importance

05:37-07:30 Role of Metro Center in developing the Framework

07:31-10:42 4 principles of the Framework

10:43-14:07 Critical lens toward inequitable systems of access, power and privilege; Dewey; civics

14:08-16:23 Framework as a transformative view of education

16:24-19:38 How will NY State Ed implement the Framework?

19:39-22:00 What Ethical Schools listeners can do

22:01-23:01 Publicizing the Framework

23:02-23:41 Transforming schools

23:42-24:30 Outro

Transcription

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