Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, grandmother of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, now Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CRSE) laid out three pillars of responsive education:
Students must experience academic success
Students must develop and/or maintain cultural competence.
Students must develop a critical (aka sociopolitical) consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order.
In a recent professional learning session, master-teacher Lonice Eversley reframes Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings’ idea of critical consciousness as The Turn Up. This recasting is itself culturally responsive: Lonice’s idea to ground theory in the moment and in culture helps us make connections and deepen our understanding of Dr. GLB’s work.
Below, find an excerpt of Lonice’s full session on Critical Consciousness as The Turn Up, or access the video here.
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If you, like us, can’t get enough of Lonice check out her other blog posts:
How do I even do this? Surviving the Transition to Online Teaching
Talking about Race & Mastery with Lonice.
Lonice Eversley is a master teacher at Careers in Sports High School in the South Bronx, NYC. She’s an MC mentor in CRSE.