Across
- 2. Our overlapping, intersecting social identities (gender, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, religion, age, etc.) that shape each and every one of us in unique ways.
- 6. Excellent teaching for students of color that includes academic success, developing/maintaining cultural competence, and developing a critical consciousness to challenge the status quo.
- 8. culture Rejecting behavior that would help a student succeed academically for the sake of holding onto cultural identity.
- 13. education Education that promotes equity in the schooling of all students.
- 15. Socially constructed category based on appearances and ancestry, or shared physical characteristics such as skin color.
- 16. orientation The type of people one is romantically, sexually, or emotionally attracted to.
- 18. Cultural heritage shared by a group of people, shared history, homeland, language, traditions, and/or religion.
Down
- 1. The study of the formal and informal rules for how, when, about what, to whom, and how long to speak in conversations within cultural groups.
- 3. Believing one’s learning and knowledge is fluid and can be changed or improved.
- 4. Relative standing in society based on income, power, background, and prestige.
- 5. Some groups feel that they are better than others.
- 7. schemas Organized cognitive structures that include gender-related information that influences how children think and behave.
- 9. A group of people who have been socially disadvantaged and/or discriminated against.
- 10. identity A person’s self identification as a gendered individual, different than sex.
- 11. Unfair prejudgment about a group of people.
- 12. The knowledge, language, values, attitudes, and traditions that shape and guide the behavior and beliefs of an individual person or a group of people; defined along regional, ethnic, religious, racial, gender, social class, or other lines.
- 14. A prejudicial preference or action
- 17. People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or are questioning.