A review by dlberglund
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta L. Hammond

4.0

Very useful and important book about being a more mindful ally and coach to students, particularly students of color who can easily become disengaged from school because of low expectations or unintentional bias. It's way past time for white teachers like me to get serious about being anti-racist advocates in our classrooms and schools, and this book can help us do so in practical ways. The theories and strategies are easily applied, though the mindset of culturally responsive teaching takes active practice.
My only quibble is that there wasn't enough of the brain science in the book for me. It didn't get serious about neuroscience until chapter 8, and I wish there had been more of it.