Social Emotional Learning & Equity

Author: Maria Campanario

Mcgraw-Hill Education|Medium

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What would culturally responsive pedagogy look like? Ladson-Billings describes it as “a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes” (Ladson-Billings, 1994, p. 382). In the diverse classrooms of our schools the number of diverse cultures represented may be daunting to an educator. But social and emotional learning may be the scaffolding needed to support an equitable culturally responsive classroom.