ACTION PLAN 1
Action Plan: Culturally Responsive Teaching
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School of Education, Liberty University
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ACTION PLAN 2
Action Plan: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Culturally Responsive Teaching is an approach in education that recognizes the importance of
diverse cultural backgrounds of students in a classroom. The goal is to create an inclusive
learning environment that all students feel welcomed, valued, and respected which in turn
enhances their academic and emotional success. Culturally Responsive Teaching aims to bridge
the gap of different cultures that are in a classroom of students and educators to ensure that the
environment is inclusive, equitable, and effective learning experience for everyone. CRT fosters
a community for all learners and addresses the disparities that can be seen in education. Taking
the time to intergrate students’ cultures into their learning process increases engagement and
retention of the material they are learning.
This is important to the school that I currently teach in as it is a Title One school that has
not only a diverse student population but also a transient population is students due to the low
socio-economic area it is in. Duran-Narucki (2008) shows how students are exposed to
substandard environments when they are socioeconomically disadvantaged which in turn affects
their success in school. Culturally Responsive Teaching helps create an inclusive that is needed
especially at Title One schools because these students really need to feel valued because school
may be the only place they feel that. Since there is sometimes an achievement gap in Title One
schools, CRT can help close it by making the lessons relevant to their cultures to increase their
engagement and educational outcomes. “As with learning, motivation is not observed directly
but, rather, inferred from behavioral indexes such as task choices, effort, persistence, and goal-
directed activities” (Schunk, 2020, p. 361). Students are more motivated when they feel like the
lessons are relevant to them. CRT creates a more supportive enviroment that meets the needs of
all students and has a postitive effective on their learning environment.
ACTION PLAN 3
Action Plan
The goal of this action plan is to make sure that Culturally Responsive Teaching is implemented
in schools to create an inclusive environment that is welcoming and respecting of all cultural
backgrounds. Enhancing student engagement, closing the achievement gap, and creating an
inclusive environment is the goal of integrating Culturally Responsive teaching. The
commitment of the school is to show by actions that the culture of the school respects and values
the diverse student population. The plan starts with the foundation of educating teachers through
professional development, changes and updates in the curriculum adjustments, and making sure
that there is follow-up and feedback on the effectiveness of the interventions put in place for
CRT.
Timeline
Action Step
Individuals or
Groups
Responsible
Cost
10/15/2024-
10/20/20248/
The admin team and the climate and
culture team will meet to write proposals to
change the overall approach to professional
development for Culturally Responsive
Teaching in the classroom. They will
submit the proposal to their direct
supervisor for the school board for
approval.
-District Admin
team
-District PD
coordinator
-District Climate
and Culture
Team
No additional
costs were
incurred.
11/10/2024-
11/14/2024
Once approval is gained, form a CRT
committee to work alongside the Climate
and Culture team. The Climate and Culture
team will oversee the CRT committee
while they create initiatives to implement
CRT.
-District Climate
and Culture
Team
No additional
costs were
incurred.
11/15/2024-
12/15/2024
The CRT team will create the necessary
resources for training and implementation
of Culturally Responsive Teaching into the
classrooms.
Materials to create:
Training Manuals- covers what CRT is, the
principles, strategies, and what the best
principles
-CRT team
$1,500 from
the allotted
amount from
the district’s
teacher
training
budget
ACTION PLAN 4
Presentation- create a slideshow that
allows teachers to visually see the key
concepts, examples, and inter active
activities to practice CRT.
Research based data- find scholarly articles
and case studies that support the use of
CRT in the classroom. Include real life
examples.
Assessment Tool- create something that
shows if teachers understood the material
given to them on CRT principles.
01/15/25-
01/30/25
Ensures all
teachers get
the training
on their
designated
days
Professional Develpment workshop for
teachers. These workshops will use the
materials created to train all teachers on
CRT principles and how to implement
them in the classroom.
-CRT team
-Professional
Development
team
-Guest Speakers
$5000 from
professional
development
budget
02/15/25
Begin integrating CRT into Curriculum
-use diverse materials and resources such
as culturally responsive books into the
curriculum.
-CRT team
-Curriculum
Specialists
-Teachers
$3000 from
curriculum
budget
2/20/25-June
15/2025
Teachers begin to implement CRT into
their daily schedule.
-Teachers
No additional
costs were
incurred.
2/20/25-June
15/2025
Monitor and evaluate the implementation
-monitor the effectiveness of CRT
-monitor academic changes
-monitor climate of school
-CRT team
- Data Analysts
$1,500 for
tools to
evaluate
$5,500 for
data analysts
ongoing
Adjustments/Feedback
-take feedback from teachers on how it can
be improved
-adjust what isn't working
-take data from evaluations and make
changes that will improve the data
-CRT team
-teachers
none
