As an elementary school teacher in the United States, it is very clear that my learners are always going to be diverse in many ways. This includes diverse cultural backgrounds, different languages spoken at home, differing prior knowledge they come to school with, and diverse learning needs. In Alvin Irby’s TedTalk, “How to Inspire Every Child to Become a Lifelong Reader,” he discusses the important concept of identity. In Alvin Irby’s discussion, he points out that instead of fixating on skills and moving students along to the next reading level, we should be focusing on how we can create reading experiences that will help all learners identify as readers, no matter what the student’s background is. In the school district that I most recently taught in, our educators were on a continuous path toward cultural competency. I think that this is a skill I will always be working on and always be learning more about and improving upon. This is why one of my future learning goals is to learn skills and strategies that will allow me to make my literacy instruction more culturally responsive. One resource that I can use to obtain this information is The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems. The Center provides a document titled “Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction,” which discusses the importance of multiple forms of literacy, early reading success, culturally responsive pedagogy, and multicultural literature.