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 * Students who have experienced positive relationships with culturally different students tend to be more open-minded, develop positive citizenship traits, and experience greater intellectual self-confidence and engagement than students who have not experienced these positive relationships.
 * Incorporating a variety of instructional practices and assessments to accommodate a classroom that includes linguistically and culturally diverse students can help those struggling learners who previously may have been labeled slow.
 * Transforming school norms and structures to embrace a wider variety of learning styles and cultures can help create a community of successful learners that includes more students than those who previously fit the "ideal" student mold.
 * Diversity is more than ethnicity and race; cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic factors can’t be ignored.
 * Diversity is unevenly distributed – each area has unique demographics
 * Recruitment of minority teachers
 * Professional development for staff
 * Changing the curriculum to include cultural experiences