This handbook of culturally responsive ways to teach the basic, mandated curriculum to students from diverse backgrounds was developed by a multicultural group of teachers. The techniques draw on the students' diverse backgrounds to increase student motivation and maximize teacher effectiveness by decreasing the mismatch between the students' home and school environments. The following topics are discussed: (1) creating a family atmosphere in the classroom; (2) weaving culture into the mathematics, science, and language arts curriculum; (3) using student-to-student, student-to-adult, and teacher-to-student interviewing; (4) cooperative learning techniques for elementary and middle school classrooms; (5) tried and true ideas for celebrating cultural diversity; (6) brief case studies to help develop appropriate responses to inappropriate expressions of intolerance among colleagues; (7) strategies for monolingual teachers of bilingual students; (8) strategies for teaching black children; (9) suggestions from Vietnamese parents for teaching their children; and (10) strategies for teaching Cambodian students. A list of 13 resources and brief biographies of the contributors are appended. (FMW)