This article looks at "helping teachers embed culturally responsive critical thinking into their existing curriculum so it doesn't feel like one more thing." Though its main purpose is to promote a book written by the author, i does offer some practical advice. One suggestion is to allow students to make up their own 'rules' - "there is nothing stopping third graders from designing their own rubrics for what makes a good paragraph 'good' based on their analysis of paragraphs written at various levels of quality," or example. Or "a more intuitive way to organize the periodic table of elements?" Or "rank the main characters from the most shady to the least shady." It's not about the new rules themselves - it's about the discussion around the rules. This is where we see the nuance and, if all goes well, culturally responsive critical thinking.
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