Our Mission

Working together as a team, we will end the predictive value of race, class, gender, and special capacities for our children’s success through high quality teaching and learning for all. We seek to build relationships with families and communities to ensure that every student succeeds. We will know every student.

Our Mission

ACPS Equity and Opportunity Fair 2023

Click the link below to REGISTER!

https://bit.ly/2023EquityFair

This event will allow you to meet our community and learn from culturally responsive practitioners who hold diverse roles in our division with the sole intent of closing achievement gaps for our racially and linguistically diverse students. Our Culturally Responsive Teaching Program is a grassroots, teacher-developed program that uses Zaretta Hammond’s text, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain as a foundation for understanding students’ cultural wealth and assets. As a division, we are committed to establishing strong learning partnerships through teacher-student rapport, maintaining academic rigor, and forging meaningful relationships with our families in order to achieve high academic outcomes.

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Equity Fair Schedule

Equity Fair schedule:

February 18, 2023

9:00 - 3:00

8:00 am- 9:00 am- Spotlight on Equity Conference Onsite Registration
9:00 am-9:30 am- Open remarks and Welcome (Auditorium)
9:30 am-11:30 pm - ACPS CRT Presentations
11:30 pm- 12:30 pm- Lunch and Keynote speaker (Cafeteria)
12:00 pm- 1:00 pm- Career Fair Onsite registration
1:00 pm- 3:00 pm- CRT workshops and panel discussions
12:00 pm- 3:00 pm- ACPS HR Career Fair ( BMS Lower lever/ Media Center)
12:30 pm- 3:00 pm- Onsite interviews

Equity Fair Goals

ACPS Equity Fair Goals:

To recruit prospective teachers for ACPS students from college and university programs, current teachers interested in joining ACPS, and career switchers;
To recruit educators that reflect ACPS’ rich cultural, racial and linguistic diversity;
To expose prospective candidates to the Culturally Responsive Teaching Model and community resources;
To present the positive benefits derived from the teaching profession, specifically, from teaching in Albemarle County Public Schools; and
To assist prospective teachers by providing knowledge of Division resources and community partners that may influence their decision to apply to teach in ACPS, and in doing so, begin making a smooth transition from the university setting to ACPS PreK-12 classrooms.

Career Fair

Meet our Presenters

Culturally Responsive Teaching Choice Menu COMING SOON!

Meet our Presenters

Increasing Student Empowerment Through Genius Hour in Upper Elementary ClassroomsKatie Breaud is a new Learning Technology Integrator with the ACPS Department of Technology. Previously, she was employed at Broadus Wood Elementary School as a Talent Development Resource Teacher and Intervention Prevention Specialist. She has served her school community as a Team Leader, School-Based Intervention Team Chair, Site Testing Coordinator, Content Media Coordinator, Diversity Resource Teacher, Equity Team Member, and was co-chair of the Broadus Wood Name Review Committee. These cumulative experiences have equipped her to recognize every person’s unique gifts and talents and motivate her to strive to ensure equitable outcomes for all.Empowering Students and Staff: Cultivating Elementary Classroom and School Cultures to Promote Equitable Student Outcomes in Literacy

Paula Gately currently serves the community of Stony Point Elementary as the Assistant Principal. Within this role, she has had the opportunity to support instructional staff in creating more equitable outcomes for students. She previously was a fourth grade teacher at Brownsville Elementary where she earned her Culturally Responsive Teaching certification during the 2021-2022 school year. Prior to moving to Albemarle County, Ms. Gately enjoyed teaching various elementary grade levels, serving as a Special Education Instructional Assistant, and implementing academic interventions for students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade as an Educational Coach.

Professional Vulnerability - Taking on the Culturally Responsive Teaching Challenge

Julia Weed has been teaching science at Jackson P. Burley Middle School for 22 years. She has taught 7th grade life science for that entire time, added in 6th grade science after her first decade, and took the leap into dual language education at the end of her second decade. Julia is a firm believer in passion, curiosity, and joy with her students, and she takes delight in muddling through things together and showing that she is also continuing to learn. Julia has been a leader in Olweus Anti-bullying programs in Albemarle County, and currently serves as the Diversity Resource Teacher at Burley. She is also one of the founding members of Cville Pride, and has been a Safe Space trainer and Side-by-Side (formerly ROSMY) group facilitator for LGBTQIA+ youth. Julia keeps chickens and bees, because the chaos of middle school just isn’t enough for her.

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Meet our Panelists

Learn about Culturally Responsive Teaching

ACPS Culturally Responsive Educator Framework 2022-23

Learn more about our Culturally Responsive Teaching Program on our website.

CRT Characteristic #1: Culturally Responsive Teachers acknowledge, validate, and incorporate the cultural influences of all students, while reflecting on their own personal cultural lenses.


1.1 Reflects on personal cultural influences, including the way these may impact communication styles, expectations, and unconscious biases.
1.2 Fosters classroom environments that create opportunities for access and achievement by acknowledging, valuing, advocating, and affirming social and cultural diversity in all aspects of the learning process.
1.3 Analyzes, selects, and integrates inclusive curriculum and instructional resources that represent and validate social and cultural diversity by connecting classroom curriculum and instruction to the cultural examples, experiences, backgrounds, and traditions of all learners.

CRT Characteristic #2: Culturally Responsive Teachers teach to and through culture as they plan curriculum and instruction that is differentiated, rigorous, and relevant.
2.1 Disaggregates assessment, engagement, behavioral, and attendance data by student social and cultural groups and identifies and applies differentiated strategies to address growth and learning needs of all students with specific attention to students who are impacted by equity, opportunity, and achievement gaps.
2.2 Considers and utilizes assessment modes that help diverse student groups best demonstrate learning.
2.3 Guides students to develop the skills necessary to communicate and engage with diverse groups in ways that support anti-racist and anti-bias communities while promoting classroom dynamics that enhance belonging, inclusivity, and respect for difference.

CRT Characteristic #3: Culturally Responsive Teachers build positive learning partnerships with students, families, and communities.
3.1 Builds meaningful, culturally responsive partnerships with all students anchored in affirmation, mutual respect, validation, and high expectations so that all students are supported to achieve rigorous academic goals.
3.2 Develops culturally-conscious, asset-based partnerships with families by putting structures in place for meaningful collaboration, including communicating with families in their home languages, in order to build trust and form mutually agreed upon learning goals for students.
3.3 Pursues a community partnership approach to education by inviting the cultural wisdom of the community into the classroom and building on community funds of knowledge to support the education of all students.