UW professor shares culturally responsive teaching strategies

University of Washington professor shares culturally responsive teaching strategies

Source contact: Vicky Romano | Educational Technology Instructor
Phone: 541-962-3558| E-mail: vromano@eou.edu

September 11, 2014

LA GRANDE, Ore. (EOU) ⎯ The first in a new lecture and workshop series for teachers sponsored by the Center for Culturally Responsive Practices is Sept. 19-20 at Eastern Oregon University.

Geneva Gay, a professor of education from the University of Washington-Seattle, will speak at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in Huber Auditorium in Badgley Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Gay is a leading international resource on integrating appropriate and effective culturally responsive teaching strategies. Registration for her corresponding workshop on Sept. 20 is open until 12 p.m. Sept. 15.

The Center for Culturally Responsive Practices at EOU strives to make pedagogy available so school communities can better create classrooms in which student language, culture and backgrounds are responded to and infused within every aspect of education and curriculum.

For more information call Vicky Romano at 541-962-3558 or go to eou.edu/ccrp.