This course examines the role that culture plays in teaching and learning and how members of a learning community are impacted b their own perspectives, biases, and experiences as well as those of other members in the learning community. Participants in this course will explore culturally responsive teaching practices rooted in neuroscience reasearch and will make connections between their understanding of the research and their experience of culturally responsive practices modeled during face-to-face class sessions. Students will be equipped with high-engagement teaching and learning strategies that will allow them to interpret predictable opportunity gaps and achievement gaps in K-12 education. [ 3 credits ]