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What leaders love most is the way Cultural Proficiency lays the
groundwork for powerful organizational growth with resources to:
Engage colleagues in collaborative dialogue about creating powerful
teaching and learning environments Recognize and respond to both
individual and group differences to break down barriers Use the
Cultural Proficiency Continuum to assess the limitations of school
practices and identify opportunities to shift the culture
Women leaders explore personal and professional growth through
reflection and story Leading While Female means working with female
and male colleagues who are grounded in values for equity to
confront and close the gender equity gap. This guided reflection is
both a stand-alone book and a companion to the bestselling Leading
While Female: A Culturally Proficient Response to Gender Equity.
Combining the first-hand experiences of female leaders with
research on feminism, intersectionality, and leadership, Arriaga,
Stanley, and Lindseysupport readers to explore their personal and
professional cultural proficiencies. Readers will find: support to
identify barriers and formulate methods to overcome them,
opportunities to record their experiences following a narrative
protocol for their Stormy First Draft (SFD), a writing experience
derived from nine chapters of guided reflective journal entries,
leadership stories and figures to provide guidance and illustrate
the need for gender equity, and opportunities for males who are
mentors and allies to dismantle gender bias. Data show women are
doing the work of classroom teaching while disproportionately, men
are making leadership decisions. This interactive resource supports
women leaders to interrupt current dominant narratives with their
own stories of challenges and success.
Why a new edition of Culturally Proficient Coaching? Why now,
especially? Because several polarizing years later, there's even
greater urgency for us all to critically examine our attitudes,
beliefs, and practices when working with students who look or sound
"different." No matter how broadly you define coach, no matter
which coaching model you follow, this is the resource to help you
get started. With the first edition, the authors' big goal was to
shift our thinking in service of standards-based teaching and
leading, and equitable interactions that support all students
achieving at highest levels. Now, with this second edition, the
authors add a third goal: to encourage a more holistic mindset and
expanded contextual uses. New features include: Enhanced research
on the effectiveness of coaching in educational settings New data
on response to implicit bias and microaggressions--subtle and
unintentional, yet destructive, forms of discrimination that
continue to marginalize Refinement and updating of the Tools of
Cultural Proficiency, which enable you to provide equitable
life-affirming experiences to all cultural groups Expanded models
of Culturally Proficient Coaching Conversations A special section
on crafting Breakthrough Questions to shift entrenched mindsets and
barriers to Cultural Proficiency By design, Culturally Proficient
Coaching is an intentional, inside-out approach that mediates a
person's thinking toward values, beliefs, and behaviors that enable
effective cross-cultural interactions and equitable learning
environments. Here's your opportunity to serve as that expert and
trusted mediator, boosting educators' cultural confidence and
consciousness, while honing their coaching skills. "We owe it to
ourselves and to our children to productively embrace and engage
diversity, with all of its tensions, for the sustainability of
humanity. These authors have given us the invitation, the road map,
and the call to action. the embarkment is up to each one of us."
--Carolyn M. McKanders, Director Emeritus Center for Adaptive
Schools and Thinking Collaborative
Your take-action guide to gender equity First, just to be clear:
Leading While Female is not a book about how to get a leadership
job. Nor is it about fixing or transforming women into male
managers or mindsets. Instead, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey's
bigger ambition is to help both women and men educational leaders
confront and close the gender equity gap-a gap that currently
denies highly qualified women and women of color opportunities to
better serve our millions of public school students. Designed as
both a personal and group discussion guide for taking action,
Leading While Female draws on the research of feminism,
intersectionality, educational leadership, and Cultural Proficiency
to help us all: Better understand the impact of faux narratives
that foster lack of confidence among girls and women Utilize the
Tools of Cultural Proficiency to examine barriers to overcome and
support functions to locate for your own career planning Learn from
the stories of women leaders who have confronted and overcome
barriers to career development, including women of color who were
targets of implicit bias Explore and expand the roles and
opportunities for our male colleagues to serve as allies,
advocates, and mentors. If we look at the data, we can safely say
women are doing the work of classroom teaching while
disproportionately, men are making administrative and leadership
decisions. Here at last is a resource for the breaking down the
barriers and leading the way for future generations of women
leaders.
Like other works in the Cultural Proficiency series, the book
begins with a focus on one's self with the premise that one cannot
adequately lead change in schools or other organizations until one
truly knows and understands one's self as a leader. In Cultural
Proficiency as a Journey, the authors model self-disclosure and
reflection by offering personal narratives describing their
respective journeys toward Cultural Proficiency. They also provide
readers with numerous prompts for individual reflection that
ultimately result in the creation of "Cultural Autobiographies."
Through engagement in this process, leaders are challenged to
interrogate their experiences and perceptions through the lens of
Cultural Proficiency, openness to difference, and celebration of
the Other.
Create inclusive educational environments that benefit ALL
learners! As schools become more diverse with students of differing
abilities and needs, this self-reflective and action-oriented guide
helps you create and support more inclusive schools and classrooms
that intentionally educate all students. Using the Five Essential
Elements of Cultural Proficiency as a roadmap, this book presents:
* Students' learning differences as just that - differences rather
than deficits * Strategies that show you how to break though the
common barriers to culturally proficient and inclusive schooling *
Assessments that gauge your awareness and show you how to best
serve every student's needs
The ultimate collection for building a world-class professional
learning program! This groundbreaking 7-book series, co-developed
by Learning Forward and Corwin, closes the "knowing-doing" gap by
guiding educational leaders through the process for implementing
the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning. Each
volume tackles an individual standard, providing: Original essays
written by leading experts in the field to promote deeper
understandings of the meaning of each standard An array of
templates, tools, and protocols to help you design and delivery
quality professional learning in your own district or school Case
studies of districts "getting it right" and educators who have
realized the promise of effective professional learning
Through a rich combination of analysis, activities for team and
individual study, and a case study, this book guides educators in
using the lens of Cultural Proficiency as basis for creating
school-wide conditions that make the Common Core accessible to all
students, including those groups that have been historically
underserved. The book includes a number of reflective and
professional learning dialogic activities, tools, and case stories
to guide educators and school leaders to understand their own
assumptions, know their values relative to equitable issues, create
change within their own practice, and create teaching and learning
environments that are relevant and rigorous for all learners.
In this third edition, the authors invite you to reflect on how you
influence what goes on in your classroom and how you engage with
your colleagues as a community of learners. Each chapter contains
reflective activities and group work to guide readers. A
well-documented case study provides an opportunity for readers to
experience cultural proficiency in practice. This best-seller has
been extensively revised to include:New case stories and references
Updated discussion of standards-based education Conceptual
framework chart Expanded discussion of barriers and the
microagression concept
Help your English learning students achieve academic success! U.S.
demographics are quickly shifting, and it is more important than
ever to reach and teach English learning students. Designed to
empower educators to become agents of change in their classrooms,
schools, and communities, this guide introduces the principles of
Cultural Proficiency and how they can help improve educators'
ability to effectively teach English language learners. This book
features: Activities that build core Cultural Proficiency skills
and promote personal transformation A chapter-by-chapter rubric for
working effectively with English learning students A
conversation-starting case story featuring the River View School
District Strategies for using action research to improve the
success of English learning students By focusing on Cultural
Proficiency-and the underlying causes of EL achievement
gaps-educators can uncover ways to break down academic barriers and
use students' cultural background as educational assets.
'Cultural proficiency challenges learning communities to go even
deeper when inquiring about student barriers to success. This
perspective is necessary to truly address the achievement and
expectation gaps in our schools. Before we ask ourselves why our
students are not succeeding, we must understand and examine our own
perceptions and assumptions about them'-Timothy A. Bias,
Administrator, Pomona Unified School District, CA Close the
achievement gap with equity-focused professional learning
communities! Professional learning communities (PLCs) can be a
powerful force for creating equitable, inclusive schools where all
students succeed. Integrating the four Tools of Cultural
Proficiency with the PLC framework, this relevant guide offers
school leaders, district administrators, and staff developers a
collaborative approach to address bias and inequity. Culturally
Proficient Learning Communities discusses the impact of our history
on cultural understanding and provides a wealth of practical
PLC-building strategies-including assessment and inquiry-driven
planning, instructional design, curriculum development, coaching,
leadership, and shared decision making. The authors examine the
goals, purpose, and process of creating and sustaining
equity-focused PLCs through: - Templates, protocols, activities,
and rubrics for deconstructing inequity in student achievement -
Stories, tools, and thinking prompts to guide an inside-out
transformation toward cultural proficiency - An extended example of
one school district's journey in becoming a culturally proficient
learning community Schools that view diversity and differences as
assets and opportunities will experience stronger holistic growth
and increased academic achievement!
An introspective response with LGBT communities for positive change
A Culturally Proficient Response to LGBT Communities is a guide for
educators to collaboratively combat issues of discrimination,
inequity, and bullying through the review of current policies,
practices, and deeply held assumptions about Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgendered (LGBT) communities. This inside-out
approach carries readers through a personal journey of reflection
to action by using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency to examine
their values, beliefs, and assumptions about how LGBT communities
are served educationally. Creating safe and welcoming schools
includes both setting effective and appropriate policies and the
inside-out analyses of one's own beliefs and values. Resulting
cultural proficiencies, steeped in self-reflection, boost empathy
and improve learning environments. On this simple, powerful
premise, readers will find: Inside-out growth through personal
stories and case-studies Reflection through activities and prompts
appropriate for individuals and teams Insight into current
responses to bullying Using this first step for positive systemic
change, school leaders can elevate understanding and propel schools
toward safe and diverse-friendly environments
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