<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e15b619f-7fff-f160-42b7-127bbea6a0a7" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:31.5pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(24,24,24);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Culturally responsive teaching is also about empowerment and interrupting teaching practices that keep certain students dependent learners. We have to create the right instructional conditions that stimulate neuron growth and myelination by giving students work that is relevant and focused on problem-solving (Hammond, 2015).</span></p><br><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am a BIPOC individual who teaches and is involved in pedagogical instruction projects at a local community college. I often see fantastic work being done by practitioners in this area!  Work like Kevin Kelly does is full of practical advice (</span><a href="https://thinkudl.org/design-for-learning-equity-with-kevin-kelly" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Design for Learning Equity With Kevin Kelly</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Think UDL</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, n.d.).  Equity pedagogical work is often disconnected from the experiences of those whom this movement desires to help succeed.  I wrote this blog post to think through some significant points that do not seem to have been analyzed and that I think are detrimental to equity, diversity, inclusion, and antiracism. </span></span><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>You can read the rest of the post <a href="https://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2022/10/what-is-missing-from-equity-pedagogical.html">here</a> if you are so inclined.</div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully, </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Max Macias</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#ffffff">-</font></div><span style="color:rgb(120,63,4)">Max Macias </span><a href="https://www.name-coach.com/max-macias" style="font-family:"open sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.538em;background-color:transparent;border-radius:0px;color:rgb(136,91,192);outline:0px!important" target="_blank"><img alt="A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature" src="https://www.name-coach.com/images/emailsig/email-sig.jpeg" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:middle;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:15px"></a></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-size:12.8px">Pronouns: | He, Him, His/They |</b></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><b>Strengths:</b> Input, Ideation, Context, Connectedness, Intellection</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Social media is mind control.  </font></div><div><br></div>The ideas expressed in these emails in no way represent any organization's viewpoints, or opinions.  The opinions, ideas and reflections are my own personal intellectual property.<br><div><br><br>Publishing<br><br><a href="http://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lowrider Librarian</a></div><div><a href="https://www.librarianswithspines.com/" target="_blank">Librarians With Spines </a><br></div></div></div></div>