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The Midwest & Plains Equity Assistance Center is funded by the  \nU.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act to provide equityfocused technical assistance to states, districts, and public schools focused on systemic improvements to ensure educational access, participation and positive outcomes for students who have been historically marginalized based on race, sex, national origin, or religion, at the request of public schools, districts, state departments of education, and other responsible governmental agencies.  \n Introduction  \nWhat is culture and what does it have to do with learning? For most teachers, gone are the days when we thought being culturally responsive meant celebrating holidays such as Día de los Muertos, or having a cultural heritage day at school. While these things may still occur, most teachers now understand that there is much more to culture than holidays, food, and dress. Despite having deeper understandings and desires to center culture in their practice, many teachers are left without tools to leverage.  \nThis Equity Tool is designed for teachers that want opportunities to think about culture and what it has to do with teaching and learning. In this tool we briefly theorize what culture is, and what it has to do with teaching and learning. Next, we introduce a useful framework for thinking about cultural practices in schools. Finally, we offer a tool to facilitate the process of teaching with culture in mind.  \n What is Culture?  \nCulture, in a nutshell, is the process of being. As you read through this tool, you are engaging in culture. But, since this culture-is-everything-and-everywhere understanding is broad to the point of not being very useful, we will attempt to add some contours and edges to our definition. First, we want to disrupt the use of culture as a code to refer to Black and Brown students that we often hear in relation to schools (e.g. , I work in a culturally diverse school) . All schools are culturally diverse, but at times, culturally diverse is used as code for racially and/or ethnically diverse. Everyone has culture.  \nCulture is reflected in everyday actions: the processes one takes to engage in actions, and the things we use to engage in actions. Culture is dualistic, both inherited while also continually constructed and reconstructed through social interactions (Nasir &  \nCopyright © 2022 by Great Lakes Equity Center  \n1  \nWhat is Culture? (cont.)  \nHand, 2006) . For example, teaching is a cultural practice. You are passed down (i.e. , inherit) understandings of pedagogy and curriculum through teacher education programs, but you also do a lot of improvisation and have agency within the classroom (i.e. , construct new cultural practices) .  \nIndividuals are also multicultural (Erickson, 2011) . People may identify with cultural groups due to race, ethnicity, language, dis/ability, political affiliation, geographic location, hobbies or interests, but even within those cultural groups there are vast withingroup differences (Artiles et al. , 2005) . For example, two individuals who identify as Latinx may have very different linguistic practices, and even speak different languages or may come from different socioeconomic circumstances. Not only is there cultural heterogeneity within cultural groups, culture itself is dynamic and constantly changing. Nasir and Hand (2006) explain that culture is informed, adapted, modified, (re)created, shared, and experienced depending upon contexts. One example of this seen in racially diverse contexts, when White and Latino boys share ","cbCaipNweeJZNo7F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipNweeJZNo7F","pdf",1140408,18,"English","# About the Centers\n# Introduction\n# What is Culture?\n## What is Culture? (cont.)\n# Thinking About Culture in Teaching and Learning: A Guiding Framework","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this equity tool for teachers?\",\"answer\":\"It is designed for teachers to think through what culture is, how it connects to teaching and learning, and to use a practical framework and reflection process in their practice.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the tool define culture beyond holidays and traditions?\",\"answer\":\"Culture is presented as the process of being shown through everyday actions, language use, and social interactions. It is both inherited and continually constructed, with culture changing across contexts.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the guiding framework used to think about culture in teaching and learning?\",\"answer\":\"The tool references Artiles’ Three Cultures framework, which helps operationalize culture in schools through tangible concepts such as school culture and other related cultural dimensions.\"}]","TEACHING WITH CULTURE IN MIND: AN OBSERVATION AND REFLECTION TOOL | PDF",1792055728,45]