ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two main culturally sustaining practices, Translanguaging and Hip-Hop Pedagogy and how culturally sustaining practices (CSPs) can contribute to resolving disproportionality issues among racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse (RELD) students. Translanguaging is a CSP that focuses on using English Language Learners’ home language simultaneously with the English language as a means to learn academic English. Hip-Hop Pedagogy is when educators create learning activities through the five hip-hop elements: Master of ceremonies, breakdancing, graffiti, disc-jockeying, and knowledge of self. The aforementioned CSP along with other culturally sustaining practices build RELD students with varying exceptionalities identities by helping them feel accepted and heard.
