October 2018 Edition

Diversity, Equity, and Poverty Department
The Model
Recognizing Culturally Responsive and Innovative Classroom Teachers
Name: Janelle Henderson
School: Mill Creek Leadership
Academy
Janelle Henderson is a third grade
teacher at Mill Creek Leadership
Academy and has been teaching for
four years. Her research interests include
culturally sustaining pedagogy, critical
inquiry, and practices to make school
more inclusive for Black students,
specifically Black boys. She is a current
member of Heinemann Fellows, a
national group of 11 K-12 educators
working on action research in their
classrooms and writing about it on the
Heinemann blog. She is also a past
member of the Professional Dyads of
Culturally Responsive Teaching, a
national cohort with the National Council
of Teachers of English (NCTE), where she
and six other primary teachers across the
nation worked with professors to research
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