In our classrooms, strength and brilliance often show up in ways we’re not trained to recognize. Tara Yosso’s concept of community cultural wealth invites us to shift from a deficit lens to one that celebrates the rich array of knowledge, skills, and resilience students of color bring with them. This includes aspirational dreams nurtured across generations, the power of multilingual storytelling, deep family ties, strong social networks, and the navigational savvy it takes to succeed in systems full of barriers. When schools recognize and build on these strengths we both affirm identity and pave the way for educational equity.