This document discusses three culturally relevant schools in Montgomery, Alabama that promote diversity and inclusion. MacMillan International Academy is an IB elementary school with a diverse student body that teaches Spanish to all students and focuses on international studies. Montgomery Technical Education Center is a magnet high school with career-focused programs that uses project-based learning. Loveless Academic Magnet Program High serves intellectually talented students with an accelerated curriculum in a diverse setting. All three schools emphasize culturally relevant pedagogy, student-teacher relationships, and teaching 21st century skills to support students from all backgrounds.

1. CULTURALLY RELEVANT
INSPIRATION
Antrecia Lambert Summers
EDU692: Creativity, Culture, and Decision Making
Dr. Gladys Evans
January 12, 2015

2. CULTURALLY RELEVANT INSPIRATION
SCHOOLS
 MacMillan International Academy for Humanities,
Communications and Technology-
http://www.macmillan.mps-al.org/
 Montgomery Technical Education Center-
http://montgomeryedutechcenter.al.mpc.schoolinsites.co
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 Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School-
http://www.loveless.mps-al.org/

3. MacMillan International Academy
for Humanities, Communications and Technology
MacMillan International Academy for Humanities Communication and Technology
is an internationally recognized International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years
Program (PYP); making it the first elementary school in Montgomery County to
achieve that distinction.
MacMillan offers a strong traditional curriculum with an enriched focus on
international studies, humanities, technology, and communications. As an IB
school, MacMillan provides Spanish instruction to all students. Students are
involved in their learning through inquiry and discovery in an internationally-
relevant and rigorous program of study. Students are engaged in authentic real-
world integrated experiences that guide student-centered learning. As students
take action upon their learning experiences, they become active members of
their school and community. The IB learner profile and attitudes guide students
to be balanced, knowledgeable, open-minded thinkers so as to take on the
challenges of our ever-changing world.
MacMillan International Academy enters its second century preparing a multi-
cultural, multi-lingual population for the global economy of the 21st century

4. MacMillan International Academy
Population
The total population is 276
 Kindergarten Students 37
 1st Grade Students 43
 2nd Grade Students 44
 3rd Grade Students 49
 4th Grade Students 50
 5th Grade Students 53

5. MacMillan International Academy
Demographics
67%
26%
6%
1%
Race
Black
White
Asian
Hispanic

6. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
MacMillan promotes culturally relevant pedagogy by encouraging educational
equity and distinction. By integrating multicultural and global curriculum
content, MacMillan continues to increase their students’ critical thinking and
problem solving skills, which are skills required for mastering 21st century skills.

7. Montgomery Technical Education Center
Magnet School
MTEC offers programs in Construction Management, Culinary Arts, Education and
Early Childhood, Electronic Engineering Technology, Information Technology,
Entertainment Marketing and Hospitality, Medical Professions, and Automotive
Service Technology. Students learn to meet the challenges of a changing global
workplace. The vision at MTEC is to foster academic excellence though a Project
Based Learning model, assisted by the use of evolving technologies. The
curriculum is designed to foster in students the 21st-century learning skills of
critical thinking, collaboration, oral and written communication, and ethical
citizenship.
The community and post-secondary organizations has given the students the
opportunity to work with local businesses and earn college credits and
certifications in their selected area of study.

8. Montgomery Technical Education Center
Population
The total population is 220
 9th Grade Students 51
 10th Grade Students 49
 11th Grade Students 57
 12th Grade Students 63

9. Montgomery Technical Education Center
Demographics
48%
22%
17%
8%
5%
Race
Black White Hispanic
Asian Other

10. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
MTEC practice culturally relevant pedagogy by encouraging student teacher
relationships. The teachers at MTEC engage their students in classroom activities,
by allowing them to participate in hands-on learning projects, all while fostering
the students 21st century skills.

11. Loveless Academic Magnet Program High
Loveless Academic Magnet Program High (LAMP) offers a specialized academic
program for intellectually talented and high-achieving students in a diverse setting.
LAMP serves students that needs an academically demanding and challenging
curriculum in the four core content areas: mathematics, language arts, science, and
social studies. The students at LAMP are provided with lessons in which the core
curriculum is extended while including the complexity, innovation, acceleration, and
opportunities for their individual needs. Advanced Placement (AP) tactics are
integrated into the instructional procedure throughout LAMP, therefore providing one
to two-year acceleration of instruction in all parts of the curriculum. The
performance-based learning empowers the students to apply concepts and ideas to
real-life situations. Students have the opportunity to combine subject matter
knowledge with necessary application skills. This approach assists with the
development of higher level critical thinking skills and more complex and abstract
reasoning. Also, the students participate in learning new information, concepts, and
skills; applying that knowledge in hands-on situations; and communicating the results
of their investigations, all skills needed for the 21st-century.

12. Loveless Academic Magnet Program High
Population
The total population is 445.
 9th Grade Students 138
 10th Grade Students 130
 11th Grade Students 87
 12th Grade Students 90

13. Loveless Academic Magnet Program High
Demographics
47%
32%
19%
2%
Race
White
Black
Asian
Hispanic

14. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
LAMP reflects culturally relevant pedagogy by promoting the principle of
teaching intellectually talented and high-achieving students in a diverse setting.
LAMP faculty incorporates technology, critical-thinking and problem solving based
instruction in order to promote an academically demanding and challenging
curriculum for their students.

15. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Culturally relevant pedagogy supports the achievement of all students. Effective
teaching occurs in a culturally supported learning environment. It is vital that we
as teachers learn how to teach students with diverse backgrounds, by assisting
them to link the differences in cultures. Moreover, a culturally responsive
instructional environment minimizes the students’ alienation as they attempt to
adjust to the different “world” of school (Ladson-Billings, 1994).
Culturally relevant pedagogy does not just involve teaching students of diverse
racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds but encompasses a vast array of
student and family diversity (Wardle, 2013, p 12.1).

16. Reference
Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African
American children. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Wardle, R. (2013). Human relationships and learning in the multicultural
environment. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.