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Ladson-Billings (1995) conceptualized culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) as an approach that would encourage students to achieve academically, demonstrate cultural competence, and critique oppressive social order(s). Students of socially marginalized groups possess an "array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities, and contacts" that in many cases go "unrecognized and unacknowledged' (Yosso, 2006, p.69). Pedagogical frameworks such as Community Cultural Wealth and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy offer asset-based approaches to counter cultural deficit perspectives in ways that center students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds as resources in teaching and learning.