ADEYEMI STEMBRIDGE, PhD
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18 Ways to Improve Teacher Feedback
January 3, 2022
"It's so disrespectful to come into someone's class and not be engaged."
"It sounds like..." is a small, but effective, teaching move
December 30, 2021
"We have all experienced dramatic shifts in teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic which certainly qualifies as an extraordinary circumstance, and "It sounds like..." has helped me to employ intentional empathy as both a teacher and an instructional coach."
Nine Ways to Implement Culturally Responsive Teaching During Distance Learning
October 6, 2020
"Culturally responsive teaching allows [students] to draw on their social and cultural fluencies in order to build and deepen understandings."
Teaching That Activates and Leverages Background Knowledge Is an Equity Issue
June 16, 2020
"Teaching that activates and leverages background knowledge is an equity issue."
Six Truths about Racism that White Teachers Must Know
June 5, 2020
"The officer who pressed his knee in the neck of George Floyd was indifferent to his humanity. Many of our students experience a similar indifference in school."
Supporting African-American Students During COVID-19
April 27, 2020
"When schools serve African-American students well, they provide safe spaces and meaningful opportunities to think in rigorous ways while also being able to draw from their social and cultural fluencies."
Educators Must Disrupt "Colorblind" Idealogies
February 4, 2020
"If you don't see race, you are unlikely to see the full experience of non-white students."
Author Interview: Culturally Responsive Education in the Classroom
January 6, 2020
"Culturally Responsive Education...requires us to give careful consideration to context..
We Must 'See our Students as Asset-Filled Beings'
December 15, 2019
"Our goal as educators is to see our students as asset-filled beings, and then to apply that awareness in classroom instruction.
Ways to Promote Resilience in the Classroom
August 4, 2019
"One of my favorite strategies for supporting the resilience of students is to capture snapshots of their successful engagement in school so I can show them back to kiddos in a sort of highlight-reel of their greatest moments in the classroom."
Effective Ways Students Can Teach Their Classmates
November 16, 2018
"Students can often explain understandings to each other in ways that don't always occur to teachers."
Why It's Important to Build Positive Relationships with Students
October 16, 2018
"The connection that students feel to teachers and school spaces is an enormously important factor in our efforts to close the racial/ethnic and class-based performance and achievement gaps that persist in American schools."
"Authoritarian-Style Mandates" From Central Offices Don't Work
July 20, 2018
"...authoritarian-style mandates will not likely change people's practices."