"It's so disrespectful to come into someone's class and not be engaged."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you don't see race, you are unlikely to see the full experience of non-white students."

"Culturally Responsive Education...requires us to give careful consideration to context..

"Our goal as educators is to see our students as asset-filled beings, and then to apply that awareness in classroom instruction.

"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."

"Students can often explain understandings to each other in ways that don't always occur to teachers."

"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 will not likely change people's practices."