Our culturally responsive lessons utilize Dr. Gholdy Muhammed’s HILL model for historically responsive literacy. Dr. Muhammed’s model is built around the following five core components:

ACTION

IDENTITY

SKILLS

INTELLECT

JOY

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Take Away Stories

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Subject: Math

Learners explore subtraction through take away stories based on their own lived experiences.

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Ten Ways to Hear Snow

Grade Level: 2nd

Subject: ELA

Second grade learners explore figurative language with the mentor text, Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper.

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The Arabic Quilt

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Subject: ELA

Do you speak any other languages? Learners explore the beauty of bilingualism alongside Aya Khalil in The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story.

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Math About Bahrain

Grade Level: 3rd Grade

Subject: Math

Grade 3 learners practice fluently adding and subtracting within 1,000 while exploring Bahrain’s rich culture and history.