UWM receives $5 million grant to strengthen culturally relevant teaching
As part of the grant, UWM will also be reviewing its own curriculum to ensure it is aligned with culturally relevant teaching practices.
MILWAUKEE _ The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education has received a $5 million grant from the Department of Education to strengthen culturally responsive teaching. The three-year grant, in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Schools, is from the U.S. Department of Education’s Supporting Effective Educator Development program.
One area of the grant’s focus will be to support 12 MPS community schools to increase equity through culturally relevant practice. Culturally relevant teaching seeks to educate teachers for increasingly diverse classrooms by helping them develop an approach to teaching that identifies and nurtures each student’s cultural strengths to promote academic achievement and well-being.
UWM will engage with staff at these 12 schools to design and expand professional development and improve culturally relevant practices schoolwide. The schools will also serve as clinical placement sites for student teachers from UWM and from the UW System’s Institute for Urban Education who want to build their culturally relevant practice skills.
“We want to prepare teachers so they are not looking at students in terms of deficits, but in terms of their cultural assets and focus on ways to make them strong, wonderful learners,” Taylor said. (Donna L. Pasternak, professor of English education at UWM, is the other principal investigator on the project.)
In addition to providing the funds for professional development at the schools, the award provides money for up to 48 student teachers to do paid internships at the schools. To support those schools and MPS and provide a pipeline of educated teachers experienced in culturally relevant practices, the grant will also support the expansion of the existing PLUS program. That program, developed in partnership with MATC by Judith Winn, UWM associate professor, helps move educational assistants within the schools into certified teaching.
As part of the grant, UWM will also be reviewing its own curriculum to ensure it is aligned with culturally relevant teaching practices.
About UWM
Recognized as one of the nation’s 115 top research universities, UW-Milwaukee provides a world-class education to 25,000 students from 91 countries on a budget of $653 million. Its 14 schools and colleges include Wisconsin’s only schools of architecture, freshwater sciences and public health, and it is a leading educator of nurses and teachers. UW-Milwaukee partners with leading companies to conduct joint research, offer student internships and serve as an economic engine for southeastern Wisconsin. The Princeton Review named UW-Milwaukee a 2018 “Best Midwestern” university based on overall academic excellence and student reviews, and the Sierra Club has recognized it as Wisconsin’s leading sustainable university.
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