Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling provide instructional strategies to help teachers improve learning in students of diverse cultures and poverty. This research-based book presents a six-part framework that builds on students' assets and strengths. The authors discuss:

• Why some cultures are "turned off" by typical motivational approaches and what educators can do to reach students
• What research says about the brain's desire to learn
• How teachers can build on students' prior knowledge
• The importance of resiliency
• Teaching procedural and declarative knowledge and preparing students for tests