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BUILDING INCLUSIVE LEARNING COMMUNITIES THROUGH CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE-SUSTAINING PRACTICES
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2025-05
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This project explores how implementing culturally responsive-sustaining strategies can foster inclusive, welcoming learning environments for all students. Centered on an elementary public school in an affluent New York community, the research highlights the often-overlooked presence of multilingual families who enrich the school’s population. As student demographics continue to diversify, schools must adopt practices that affirm and celebrate both students’ and educators’ cultural identities. Guided by the NYSED’s (2018) Culturally Responsive-Sustaining (CR-S) Framework, the PD in this capstone promotes a schoolwide intervention designed to create positive learning spaces that validate the cultural and linguistic assets of all multilingual learners (MLLs). Sustainable recommendations include nurturing strong student-teacher relationships, engaging and valuing families as essential partners, and continuing to reflect on positionality and its influence on instruction. Ultimately, this capstone aims to celebrate diversity, promote equity, and inspire schools to cultivate and sustain transformational educational communities where all learners and faculty feel represented, valued, and empowered.