Culturally Responsive Teaching: Lesson Planning for Elementary and Middle Grades

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has received distirnguished alumni awards from Georgia State University and Howard University. In 1996 she received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Education Research Association and an award from the Associaton for Supervision and Curriculum Development for exemplary contributions to the education of African American children. Dr. Irvine's specialization is in multicultural education and urban teacher education, particularly the education of African Americans. Her book, Black Students and School Fauilure received two national books awards--The 1991 Outstanding Writing award from The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)and the Outstanding Academic Book of 1990 from the Association of College and University Research Librarians. Her most recent books are Growing Up African American in Catholic School and Critical Knowledge for Diverse Students. Currently she works with public school teachers in a center she founded and directs, The Center on Urban Learning/Teaching and Urban Research in Education and Schools (CULTURES).



Beverly Jeanne Armento is currently the Research Professor in Social Studies Education and Chair of the Middle/Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She holds a doctoral degree in Social Studies Education from Indiana University where she received the Lieber Memorial Teaching Associate Award. Dr. Armento has taught elementary and middle grades in New Jersey, Florida, and Maryland, and has been at Georgia State since 1975. She was selected Alumni Distinguished Professor at GSU in 1985 and Outstanding Georgia Social Studies Educator by the Georgia Council for the Social Studies Educator by the Georgia Council for Social Studies in 1990. Dr. Armentos major areas of professional research and writing are economic education, diversity issues, and excellence in teaching and learning. Dr. Armentos works include chapters in the Handbook of Research on Teaching, the Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in Social Studies, and the Handbook of Research on Teacher Education. She is actively leading efforts to reform the nature of teacher education programs and the quality of teaching and learning in urban schools in the Atlanta area.