Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 581 - OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Division 18 - NETWORK OF QUALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING
Section 581-018-0500 - Definitions: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practices Grant

(1) "Achievement gap" means the research-based gap in opportunity that often exists between students who are economically disadvantaged, students learning English as a second language and students who are African American, Hispanic or Native American and their White peers.

(2) "Culturally responsive" means the implicit use of the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective for them.

(3) "Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practices Grant " means the Grant established in OAR 581-018-0205 to implement ORS 342.950(3)(f).

(4) "Culturally Relevant " means pedagogy and practices that propose the following: students must experience academic success, students must develop and/or maintain cultural competence, and students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the status quo of the current social order.

(5) "Culturally and/or linguistically diverse" means: students who identify as racial and/or ethnically diverse (Hispanic, African American, Native American, Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander) or whose native language is not English.

(6) "Culturally competent" means the ability to successfully teach students who come from a culture or cultures other than our own. It entails developing certain personal and interpersonal awareness and sensitivities, understanding certain bodies of cultural knowledge, and mastering a set of skills that, taken together, underlie effective cross-cultural teaching and culturally responsive teaching.

(7) "Systemic Equity" means: the transformed ways in which systems and individuals habitually operate to ensure that every learner- in whatever learning environment that learner is found as the greatest opportunity to learn enhanced by the resources and supports necessary to achieve competence, excellence, independence, responsibility, and self-sufficiency for school and for life.

(8) "Opportunity gap" means: the ways in which race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, English proficiency, community wealth, familial situations, or other factors contribute to or perpetuate lower educational aspirations, achievement, and attainment for certain groups of students.

(9) "Pre-service teacher" means an individual who is enrolled in a post-secondary teacher preparation program at the undergraduate or graduate level working to obtain an initial teaching license.