This practical book shows today's educators how to design a sustainable classroom architecture that maximizes student engagement, learning, and belonging. Based on the authors' collaborative work with K– 2 public school teachers, this practical book offers an invitation to create dynamic learning opportunities in classrooms designed to challenge and support all learners. Because teaching contexts are always unique and shifting, we cannot rely primarily upon scripts, recipes, 'best practices,' and prescribed curriculum. Rather, based on teachers' analysis of their own contexts, the authors describe and show how today's educators can curate strategies, curriculum, and methods to design a sustainable classroom architecture that maximizes student engagement, learning, and belonging. Attending to principles of culturally sustaining pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning, and 'backwards design,' Be the Architect of Your Inclusive Classroom focuses on curriculum design, classroom behavior,
