Culture is defined as a group's shared attitudes, values, social forms, customary beliefs, and material traits. Zaretta Hammond uses her Culture Tree graphic to visually represent this definition of culture and applies it to addressing the achievement gap based on race in public education. The Culture Tree graphic is used in Hammond's book Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain to explain culture in the context of the achievement gap in schools.
Culture is defined as a group's shared attitudes, values, social forms, customary beliefs, and material traits. Zaretta Hammond uses her Culture Tree graphic to visually represent this definition of culture and applies it to addressing the achievement gap based on race in public education. The Culture Tree graphic is used in Hammond's book Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain to explain culture in the context of the achievement gap in schools.
Culture is defined as a group's shared attitudes, values, social forms, customary beliefs, and material traits. Zaretta Hammond uses her Culture Tree graphic to visually represent this definition of culture and applies it to addressing the achievement gap based on race in public education. The Culture Tree graphic is used in Hammond's book Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain to explain culture in the context of the achievement gap in schools.
The culture of a group of people is its shared attitudes, values, social forms,
customary beliefs, and material traits. A visual representation of this definition is
Zaretta Hammond’s Culture Tree. Hammond uses this graphic in her book Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain, and she applies it to the larger context of addressing the achievement gap based on race in public education.