Teaching Diverse Youth: Culturally Responsive Teaching

Researchers

Lotte Henrichs Photograph by Marike van Pagée

Lotte Henrichs is an Assistant Professor at the department of Education of Utrecht University. She teaches in the Graduate School of Education (GST) and in the Primary Education Teacher Education Programme, where she participates in courses on student-teacher interaction and relationships. Lotte’s research focus is culturally responsive teaching (CRT). In her research, she seeks to identify good practices of CRT within highly heterogeneous Dutch elementary school classrooms. She is keen on using these research findings in her teaching, co-constructing good practices together with students.

 

 

 

Alyson Lavigne

Alyson L. Lavigne (@LavigneAlyson) is an assistant professor of instructional leadership at Utah State University. Using her training as an educational psychologist and classroom researcher, Lavigne has conducted research on teacher retention, teachers’ beliefs, teacher supervision and evaluation, and Latinx students’ experiences. Her work has been featured in Teaching and Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Journal of Teacher Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and Humanity & Society and in three recent books co-authored with Thomas Good, Looking in Classrooms (11th ed.), Improving Teaching through Observation and Feedback: Going Beyond State and Federal Mandates, and Teacher and Student Evaluation: Moving Beyond the Failure of School Reform.  Most recently, she has merged her interest in educational policy, specifically teacher evaluation, and teaching and motivation in schools that serve Latinx students to focus on instructional practices and leadership in schools that serve diverse youth and dual language learners.

 

 

Jorge Américo Acosta Feliz

Jorge Acosta Feliz is a Research Assistant at Utah State University, in The College of Education and Human Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Aviation Technology and dual master’s degrees in Management Information Systems and Technology and Engineering Education. He’s passionate about analyzing data and working with machine learning.

 

 

 

Shiquan (Vivian) Shao

Vivian is a research assistant who has been working on the Teaching Diverse Youth project. She recently graduated in Special Education and Chinese Language Teaching from Utah State University.