Tileston & Darling

Pages: 196

Product Number: 978-1-934009-24-6

Size: 6 x 9

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Why Culture Counts received both the Bronze Award (3rd Place) in the education category of Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year awards and the 2009 AEP Distinguished Achievement Award in Professional Development/Education. In addition, Why Culture Counts has been nominated for the National Staff Development Council Book of the Year Award.

Culture trumps poverty in its impact on achievement. Culture defines what children will focus their attention on, how they interpret the world to give it meaning, what background knowledge they bring to learning, and how they will value that learning. The focus of our interventions to close the achievement gap must therefore be to attend to the culture of the learner. This book shows how to build the necessary supports to move classrooms from the traditional, Eurocentric model to one that respects and incorporates the cultures of the learners.