Culturally Responsive Conversations

A STRATEGIC MANUAL FOR K-12 EDUCATORS SERVING MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS Culturally Responsive Conversations is a practical guidebook for K-12 educators, administrators, and counselors aiming to improve learning outcomes in a diverse, multicultural school population. The book offers an eye-opening discussion of how to develop better relationships and strengthen partnerships with families from a wide array of cultural backgrounds and demonstrates how to improve the classroom experience for all stakeholders. "Marina Lee and Seth Leighton offer an original synthesis of knowledge based on scholarship and on practice with practical exercises that can help the reader become more self-aware and competent in navigating cross-cultural exchanges. Their own lived experience, as a multicultural family and as global educators, uniquely qualifies them to speak with authority and authenticity about the potential of true communication that bridges cultures." -- FERNANDO M. REIMERS, Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education "Marina and Seth's wisdom and stories helped me better understand what I've seen and heard in classrooms around the world, and reflect on how I can be better with kids of every background." -- MIKE GOLDSTEIN, Founder, Match Education, Boston