Scroll down in this Professional Development Module from Teaching Tolerance until you get to the part titled Inclusion of Family and Community Wisdom. Watch the 2-minute video of Victoria Purcell-Gates as she explains how teachers can learn from communities and parents.
Look at the resources that follow the Purcell-Gates video.
Blog about how you could tap into your own students’ “funds of knowledge.” What did you think of this new information? More important, since most of you have taught for a few years now, what about this week’s information can you implement? How can you go out into the community to bring the community into the school?