Keeping It Real and Relevant: Building Authentic Relationships in Your Diverse Classroom

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About

How can we ensure that all students, regardless of cultural background or socioeconomic status, are granted equitable opportunities to succeed in the classroom and beyond? In Keeping It Real and Relevant: Building Authentic Relationships in Your Diverse Classroom, author and veteran educator Ignacio Lopez offers hard-won lessons that educators at all levels can apply to teaching, assessing, counseling, and designing interventions for learners from all walks of life. These insights are all rooted in the same core principle: building deep and meaningful relationships with students is the key driver of their success.

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Self-Awareness: Relationship-Building in Diverse Classrooms

Designing and Leveraging an Effective Learning Environment

Reality Therapy in Diverse Classrooms

About the authors

Ignacio Lopez is an educational psychologist, author, and leader focused on supporting the development of educators and education organizations that embrace inclusive, emotionally intelligent, and culturally relevant learning environments. In his writing, Lopez provides helpful, relevant, and research-based leadership and instructional strategies that help educators challenge their own mindsets and practices toward advancing the academic and social emotional lives of the students they serve.

Lopez has been a high school teacher, administrator, college dean, community college president, and elected school board member in Illinois. He is the author of Keeping It Real and Relevant.