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Keeping All Student's Identity Visible in School How can we as teachers ensure our students will maintain their cultural individuality while in school?  An unfortunate reality of students with diverse cultural backgrounds is that their identity can get drowned out by the dominate culture while they are going to school. As future educators we need to ensure that all of are student's individuality is maintained while they are in our classrooms, instead of being ignored. We need to begin to insert education into their individual cultures so that they are able to experience the three tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy.  T he three tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy stated in Ladson-Billings's article are: 1.) students must experience academic success 2.) students must develop and/or maintain cultural  competence  3.) students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order When these te

Very often in schools, we are told to follow a certain way and to do things this one way or it is incorrect. However, after taking a deeper dive into readings by Bomer, Paris, and Ladson-Billings I am finding out this should not be the case for us as students and future educators. Student's should not have to follow a status quo but rather find their own unique ways of living and learning. Ladson-Billings speaks about cultural competence in the article  But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy . Cultural competence is something that teachers should be using every day to not only connect with their students but people within their communities. All of these terms can be brought back to the topic of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy which is something that Ladson-Billings expands on. The term "relevant" is a loose term that can sometimes be transparent and hard for teachers to latch onto. The term "sustaining" makes it seem more