Explore how portraiture can elevate culturally responsive teaching (CRT)! Discover how collections from the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History can be integrated into the classroom to create a learning environment that affirms students’ insights and experiences, but encourages curiosity. 

This collection includes objects that can facilitate adapting the components of CRT:

• Having positive perspectives on the parents and families of students
• Communication of high expectations
• Learning within the context of culture
• Student-centered instruction
• Culturally mediated instruction 
• Institutional policies and practices that support culturally reflective teaching
• Teacher as facilitator

Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishing Co.