The LEARN Framework Academy employs the LEARN Framework to coach you through designing culturally meaningful activities in five steps using practical tools.
During his PhD teacher intervention study, Dr. Williams, teachers, and an administrator examined his training materials, including teacher feedback on effective and ineffective aspects of his training. Then, they created the acronym LEARN to illustrate five parts of the training teachers found most effective for designing culturally meaningful practices. Finally, Dr. Williams employed LEARN during his PhD teacher intervention to coach educators through designing culturally meaningful activities using practical tools.
Get ready to engage in the interactive game “Guess That Image”! This activity will take you on a journey through Dr. Williams’s history of culturally meaningful teaching and the evolution of the LEARN framework. The storyboard below showcases twelve pivotal events that have influenced Dr. Williams’s practices and the LEARN framework.
Here is how you play Guess That Image:
Storytelling is the heart and soul of culturally responsive teaching. As you reflect on Dr. Williams’s story with culturally meaningful teaching, remember to consider your experiences, including people, events, and resources that inspired you to study culturally responsive teaching.
The storyboard illustrates experiences that birthed the LEARN framework and the LEARN Framework Academy. The images in the storyboard represent historical events; they show that Dr. Williams did not create the LEARN framework or the Academy overnight. Rather, the framework and Academy are rooted in decades of culturally responsive teaching scholarship and practice at the ground level.
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