This 1-hour webinar from the Equity Assistance Center - South and the Center for Black Educator Development explains how cultural perceptions can affect classroom teaching and expectations for individual students. Victoria McCall, Director of E-Learning at the Center for Black Educator Development, provided a comprehensive presentation to assist educators with shifting from deficit-based perceptions to asset-based approaches focused on each student’s strengths. The webinar provides an overview of bias, defines asset-based thinking and deficit-based thinking, and explores ways to shift educator mindsets, including connecting through empathy and vulnerability by engaging through authentic conversations, affirming everyone’s community cultural wealth, and humanizing data. This webinar may be useful for teachers, teacher educators, and mentor teachers.