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The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)

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The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)

The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt),  project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs, provides technical assistance and professional development to close the achievement gap between students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their peers, and reduce inappropriate referrals to special education. This Web site provides resources, tools, and briefs for educators such as professional learning for culturally responsive teaching, adressing diversity in schools, and culturally responsive literacy education. It also contains a series of training modules for educators on buidling collaborative leadership teams, understanding culture, culturally responsive pedagogy and practice, and culturally responsive response to intervention.

 Visit the NCCRESt Web site.