Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Literacies for Students with Diverse Needs, Pre-K-6

Exploration of historical, theoretical and research-based teaching practices for instruction that is culturally sustaining and responsive to students with diverse needs, identities, and communities. Assessment and pedagogy; universal design for learning; critical literacies; differentiation of instructional strategies; technology and curriculum to enhance dispositions and foundational literacy skills of emergent and developing readers and writers in early childhood and childhood settings, with emphasis on students with special needs.