Cultural Identity & Bias
The core, shared principles and moral frameworks that guide a community's behavior and define what is deemed "good," "right," or "essential"
What are values?
The combination of passion and perseverance for long-term goals. It is the stamina to sustain effort, practice, and focus
What is Grit?
A technique where an instructor asks a question to the entire class and then calls on a specific student to answer, regardless of whether that student volunteered or raised their hand
What is Cold-Call?
An instructional method in literacy that teaches children the relationship between the letters of written language (graphemes) and the individual sounds of spoken language (phonemes).
An educational framework that guides the design of flexible, inclusive learning environments to accommodate all students.
What is UDL?
The ability to understand, validate, and honor another person's feelings and lived experiences through the lens of their specific cultural background.
What is Empathy?
The dedicated energy, time, and perseverance required to develop skills and intelligence.
What is Effort?
A deliberate pause of 3 to 5 seconds (or more) that a teacher takes after asking a question or after a student provides an answer
What is Wait-Time?
The ability to hear, identify, and mentally manipulate individual speech sounds in spoken words.
An instructional model that intentionally shifts the cognitive load from the teacher to the student.
What is Gradual Release of Learning?
The core tenets, worldviews, and collective truths a group holds to be self-evident.
What are Beliefs?
The ability to sustain effort and maintain engagement despite setbacks, confusion, or failure.
What is Perseverance?
A classroom routine where students briefly pause instruction to discuss a specific prompt with a peer.
What is Turn-and-Talk?
An intensive, analytical reading strategy where students slow down to examine a short, complex text.
What is Close Reading?
An ongoing, low-stakes educational evaluation used during the learning process
What is Formative Assessment?
A collective group of people linked by shared socially significant characteristics such as inherited traditions, values, beliefs, and a common historical narrative.
What is Community?
The ability to bounce back from academic challenges, mistakes, or failures by viewing them as valuable feedback rather than roadblocks
What is Resilience?
A teaching metric describing the proportion of students actively engaged in a lesson at any given time.
What is Participation Ratio?
The study of how words are formed and structured.
What is Morphology?
Evaluates student learning and academic achievement by measuring mastery of content at the conclusion of a defined instructional period
What is Summative Assessment?
The shared set of beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and symbols that a group uses to navigate the world.
What is Culture?
The process of grappling with complex tasks that push just beyond a learner's current abilities
What is Productive Struggle?
The expectation that students learn at high, sophisticated levels through deep critical thinking, authentic application of knowledge, and productive struggle.
What is Academic Rigor?
The rhythmic and melodic component of speech.
What is Prosody?
Clear, structured guidelines that define exactly what students should know and be able to do in a specific subject at each grade level
What are Content Standards?