The CLEAR Model

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The CLEAR Model outlines the 5 basic building blocks of Culturally Validating Pedagogy and Leadership (CVP/L):

Culture
Emphasizes the human purpose of what is being learned and its relationship to the students’ own culture.
Learning
Encourages students to make choices in content and assessment methods based on their experiences, values, needs, and strengths.
Equitable
Respectful learning environments in which students’ racial, social, linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity is valued and contributes to the learning experience.
Achievement
Includes multiple ways to represent knowledge and skills and allow for attainment of outcomes at different points in time.
Responsive
Through positive relationships, vigorous learning experiences are created involving higher order thinking and critical analysis used to address relevant, real(ness) world issues in an action-oriented manner.

These building blocks outline the quintessential components that must be present in Environment, Instruction, and Content (three components of pedagogy) to ensure equitable learning structures are in place which support student centered educational experiences. The CLEAR Model is the foundation. All other Intercultural Innovations Incorporated (I³) system tools are built on it and interact with it.

“Neuroscience has demonstrated that all brains are predisposed for high intellectual performances and the imperative for self-actualization.”
—Dr. Yvette Jackson

The CLEAR Model

The CLEAR Model

Culture
Emphasizes the human purpose of what is being learned and its relationship to the students’ own culture.

Learning
Encourages students to make choices in content and assessment methods based on their experiences, values, needs, and strengths.

Equitable
Respectful learning environments in which students’ racial, social, linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity is valued and contributes to the learning experience.

Achievement
Includes multiple ways to represent knowledge and skills and allow for attainment of outcomes at different points in time.

Responsive
Through positive relationships, vigorous learning experiences are created involving higher order thinking and critical analysis used to address relevant, real(ness) world issues in an action-oriented manner.

The CLEAR Model

CultureEmphasizes the human purpose of what is being learned and its relationship to the students’ own culture.

Learning Encourages students to make choices in content and assessment methods based on their experiences, values, needs, and strengths.

EquitableRespectful learning environments in which students’ racial, social, linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity is valued and contributes to the learning experience.

AchievementIncludes multiple ways to represent knowledge and skills and allow for attainment of outcomes at different points in time.

ResponsiveThrough positive relationships, vigorous learning experiences are created involving higher order thinking and critical analysis used to address relevant, real(ness) world issues in an action-oriented manner.

Culture
Emphasizes the human purpose of what is being learned and its relationship to the students’ own culture.

Learning
Encourages students to make choices in content and assessment methods based on their experiences, values, needs, and strengths.

Equitable
Respectful learning environments in which students’ racial, social, linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity is valued and contributes to the learning experience.

Achievement
Includes multiple ways to represent knowledge and skills and allow for attainment of outcomes at different points in time.

Responsive
Through positive relationships, vigorous learning experiences are created involving higher order thinking and critical analysis used to address relevant, real(ness) world issues in an action-oriented manner.