• Offers a reliable, flexible model for culturally and historically responsive education (CHRE) that teachers can use for any type of lesson planning—across grades and subject areas.
• Shares detailed lessons created by Dr. Muhammad, inspired by teachers who work in diverse classrooms and use her framework daily, each with a focus text to share with students.
• Includes strategies, tools, and texts for assessing students, using the Five-Pursuits Framework.
• Includes companion website with focus texts, classroom videos, model lessons, and tools for designing and assessing your own lessons.

Put Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s groundbreaking instructional framework into action! In this resource, you’ll find 60 lessons that each zero in on a content area–social studies, STEM, English language arts, and arts and culture—and, as such, can be taught at any point in the day. Each lesson is based on a focus text, such as a picture book or poem, that serves as a springboard for deepening students’ understanding of themselves, others, and the world. You’ll also find recommendations for additional texts, implementation models, and ideas for classroom organization and management.