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Rebuilding Students′ Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice
Ensure all your students are ready to tackle rigorous content
To understand the achievement gaps that persist in our schools despite years of equity initiatives, we must look to the insidious legacy of segregated schools and the deliberate underdevelopment of diverse students’ cognitive abilities. Uprooting this "cognitive redlining" requires we reimagine instruction for our most vulnerable learners so they can rebuild their brains’ learning muscles.
Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power outlines a five-step process to coach students to strengthen their natural learning abilities while dismantling over-scaffolding of instruction, the number one contributor to cognitive redlining. Additional features
A cognitive apprenticeship model that recenters the student as the primary actor in the classroom
Guidance for administrators, instructional coaches, instructional leadership teams, and teachers to collaborate in creating sustainable liberatory teaching practices
A how-to plan to build teacher capacity to coach students in becoming good information processors
Building on the popular Ready for RigorTM framework from her bestselling book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, author Zaretta Hammond offers a practical roadmap on how to close the knowing-doing gap, grounded in the science of learning. This essential resource is for educators, instructional coaches, and school leaders who are committed to moving the needle on academic achievement in their districts.
To understand the achievement gaps that persist in our schools despite years of equity initiatives, we must look to the insidious legacy of segregated schools and the deliberate underdevelopment of diverse students’ cognitive abilities. Uprooting this "cognitive redlining" requires we reimagine instruction for our most vulnerable learners so they can rebuild their brains’ learning muscles.
Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power outlines a five-step process to coach students to strengthen their natural learning abilities while dismantling over-scaffolding of instruction, the number one contributor to cognitive redlining. Additional features
A cognitive apprenticeship model that recenters the student as the primary actor in the classroom
Guidance for administrators, instructional coaches, instructional leadership teams, and teachers to collaborate in creating sustainable liberatory teaching practices
A how-to plan to build teacher capacity to coach students in becoming good information processors
Building on the popular Ready for RigorTM framework from her bestselling book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, author Zaretta Hammond offers a practical roadmap on how to close the knowing-doing gap, grounded in the science of learning. This essential resource is for educators, instructional coaches, and school leaders who are committed to moving the needle on academic achievement in their districts.
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320 pages, Paperback
Published September 2, 2025
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November 4, 2025
A wonderful follow-up to Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain. It provides a robust structure on how your pedagogy could evolve (particularly, shifting away from compliance) through many helpful reflective moments and novel techniques. Of particular note are the five learn-to-learn skills. Parts did run a bit abstract or heavy on narrative at times, but I think very understandable as one share from Hammond was how she realized that her previous book might not have fully communicated intention.
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