CRT Teaching Toolkit Project Phase III (Peer Response and Review)

Reviewer: Ashley Alcantara

Person Reviewed: Ashley Miller
Blog/Vlog Title: Learning Within the Context of Color

Feedback

1. Does the author address culturally responsive teaching?

Yes. Ashley discusses culturally responsive teaching especially concerning culture and race. She uses
Wayne Au’s perspective on multicultural education to jump start her discussion. It is clear that Ashley’s
focus was to address language gaps and stereotypes of students in the classroom. She dove deeper into
both of those focuses by providing evidence based practices for both. She did a great job of talking about
information we have learned about throughout our Diverse Classrooms in Global Societies course.

2. Does the author make a believable argument and/or provide evidence that culturally responsive
teaching can impact student success in the classroom?

She used evidence based practices to give readers ways to combat stereotypes and ways to combat
language inequities. The students vs stereotypes provides educators with evidence from students about how
multicultural education impacts them.

3. Did the author clearly offer a description for the use of at least three evidence-based culturally
responsive practices?

Ashley provided many evidence based culturally responsive practices. She even divided the practices into
different ways to combat issues associated with culturally responsive teaching. She also discussed the
benefits of using diverse texts in the classroom and ways to bridge the language gap for the diverse
students teachers will encounter.

Did not
Met meet
expectation expectation Expectation Additional Comments

The Blog minimum of 750 Ashley includes more than 750 words but it is
words (approximately 3
organized in a way that makes it easy to read.
minutes of audio, if vlogging),

However, it is all lumped together in one long

The author utilizes and cites
research-based
information/evidence.
stream so if she were to provide different pages
in the menu for the reader it would be less
overwhelming upon first glance.
She includes references at the bottom of her
blog. Those sources are referenced and utilized
throughout the blog.

At least three additional Ashley includes a video addressing

links/mentions to outside
stereotypes.
resources where readers can
learn about the information
given are included.
 The video provided was impactful. I would have
loved to see more videos embedded in her
blog.

She also includes links for Bridging Language

Gaps.

The submission is organized in Organized with different headings and

a way that is engaging and
subheadings.
clear to readers (blogs:
headers, use of bullets,
inclusion of quoted experts; Due to the amount of headings and subheading
vlogs: banners, aligned it may be beneficial to color coordinate the
text/images with audio, different sections. This can help the reader
inclusion of expert
focus on the different evidence based practices.
interview/quotes),

The use of You can tell that Ashley used research-based

appropriate/academic
evidence in completing her blog.
grammar, spelling, and
punctuation (in text or speech)
is evident.