Guided Response: Review at least two other classmates' initial posts. Compare the examples they used from the High Tech High presentation with your own. Did they align with the same characteristics of culturally relevant instruction or creativity as yours? Ask questions if the relationship they suggest is not clear to you.

As with previous discussions, though two replies is the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning, you are encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you. This will further the conversation and provide you with opportunities to clarify your own understanding of the material analyzed.

Megan Martin

Triangle of Support

After viewing the video, I believe that it shows that the schools reinforce the students' cultural competence through letting them show their culture in the school.

They have programs at the schools that support the students and their cultural backgrounds. Children seem to learn better when they are physically involved in the activity. I never heard of the Blue Man Group until this discussion. The students were able to get a little bit of freedom to learn what interested them. Parents can help the students from home by helping them study, take them to the library, and use the community for resources.

Jaclyn Greene

It's often-said peer learning is the best learning. This school has captured that concept and run with it. They allow the children the freedom to express their cultural competence and the ability to do so with others all while learning. With a wide variety of programs, the children get to engage in a host of projects and class assignments where they get to pair off in groups and work together independently.

Its my personal opinion that by doing this they build their confidence, self-wealth, awareness of their cultural competence as well as that of those around them and enhances their learning experience, as well as spark their creativity. Each major has its own advisory committee made up of students, parents, and other professionals, It also enhances their independence by allowing students to choose between a wide variety of vocational courses.

To me this is great for if you choose it it's because you're interested in it. Which means you will probably stick with it and do well with it. I addition to all this wonderfulness they also keep their ears to the streets to assure they are keeping up with what students need to succeed in the modern world.

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High Tech High Vocational and Academic Model

The school offers a unique experience in addressing each learners' cultural competence. This is achieved via the cleverly diversified which include performing arts and music. The opportunity for learners to participate in musical activities and other expressive arts enables them to demonstrate, develop and appreciate their cultural diversities.

Students are actively involved in constructing knowledge by the virtue that they are exposed to college like learning environments which gives them a chance to carry out research and other laboratory tasks. The diversification of the vocational programs enables students to get involved with ‘majors' that they truly have an interest in instead of the common learning programs whereby learners are forced to undertake various disciplines.

The institution also gets to understand the learner's culture and associated knowledge via the more expressive majors such as arts. The freedom of choosing what to learn while being supported by the teachers gives the learners a unique opportunity to make the learning experience fun and enjoyable, which promotes critical consciousness within the learner and promotes their social norms.

The Blue School

The school is fundamentally built on the aspiration of promoting creativity among learners. One of the most interesting and characteristically effective methods of nurturing creativity within the school is "promotion of experiment and inquiry and the willingness to make mistakes."

This, as argued by one of the founders, stems from the fact that different children have varied ways of learning and yet they are subject under the same teaching conditions. For instance, some children learn best via kinetic means of absorbing knowledge hence the need for them to keep moving around. This approach is highly recommended in any new school since it will give the learners and opportunity to explore their full potential.

There is need to create a stronger association between creativity and culturally relevant instruction within the 21st-century classrooms. This is due to the fact that more emphasis is being put on the mastery of communication skills and useful diversity in the job market. Therefore, it is only prudent to ditch the assembly-line-like strategy in education which produces extremely similar ‘copies' of graduates with little to no room for creativity.