The groundbreaking guide to cultural proficiency in schools, updated to meet today’s challenges
The first edition of The Culturally Proficient School opened new dialogue about diversity and cultural dignity that had an immediate impact on educators, becoming the go-to resource for ideas about how to serve all students equitably.
This second edition incorporates reader feedback and up-to-date research on closing access and achievement gaps, delivering a guide to cultural proficiency that is more relevant, accessible and effective than ever. New content includes:
• Instructive vignettes that reflect contemporary truths about educational diversity and moral leadership
• Emphasis on skills development, including the art and science of conversation
• A conceptual framework that makes clear the first steps to take towards a more culturally proficient school
The face of educational diversity is changing. Now more than ever, this book is the key to mastering the challenges and opportunities it presents.
‘In The Culturally Proficient School, the authors take the reader on a journey of personal reflection and capacity building. This authentic examination of our assumptions and practices creates a necessary, healthy tension to move from simply learning to changing our practices in schools. In a nutshell, an educational leader can take this book and create a learning community that aligns the work of adults around a commitment to creating a culturally proficient school that benefits each student.’
— Jeff Ronneberg, Superintendent
Spring Lake Park Schools, MN
Table of Content
Forewords
1st edition– Flora Ida Ortiz
2nd edition– Sid Salazar
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
I. Cultural Proficiency and the Achievement Gap
1. Culture Frames Achievement Gaps
Getting Centered
Cultural Proficiency Manages Change
Our Invitation to You: From NCLB to Common Core
The ′Why′ of This Book
2. The Importance of Culturally Proficient Leadership
The Case: Maple View
Maple View School District
Maple View: The People
Leadership Action That Matters
Invitation: Assess Your Receptivity
Cultural Proficiency Receptivity Scale
Going Deeper
II. The Tools of Cultural Proficiency: An Inside-Out Change Process
The Conceptual Framework is a Guide
3. Overcoming Self-Imposed Barriers to Moral Leadership
Getting Centered
Maple View Discovers What it Cares About
Entitlement and Privilege as Education History
Transformative Leadership
Facing Entitlement: The Conundrum of Anger, Guilt or Confidence
Reflections on Entitlement: A Pine Hills Elementary School Conversation
Reflections on Entitlement: Oppression, Entitlement, or Self-Determination and Personal Responsibility?
Self Determination and Personal Responsibility: From Feelings to Action
4. Cultural Proficiency in Practice: The Guiding Principles
Sam Brewer: The Making of a Culturally Proficient Practice
Mobilizing Communities to Make Progress – Without Easy Answers
The Guiding Principles of Culturally Proficient Leadership
Focus on Assets, Overcome Barriers
Core Value Expressions in Maple View School District
Applying Guiding Principles to Your Practice
5. The Cultural Proficiency Continuum: Changing the Conversation
Cultural Proficiency: A Transformative Approach
Return to Maple View
6. The Essential Elements as Standards of Leadership Behavior
Tolerance for Diversity vs. Transformation for Equity
Pine Hills High School’s Leadership Approach to Cultural Proficiency
Essential Elements as Standards for Leadership Behavior and School Policy
Making Sense of the Elements, Standards, and Behavior
Template for Strategic Planning
Going Deeper
III. Professional Learning for Organizational Change
7. Conversation: A Skill for the Culturally Proficient Leader
Getting Centered
Skillful Use of Communication Channels
Organizations as Relationships
The Essence of Communication: Co-constructing Meaning
Modes of Conversing
Practicing Conversation Skills
8. Leading in a Culture of Learning and Transformative Change
Learning How to be a Culturally Proficient Leader
Transformative Learning
A Transformative Vision of Maple View School District
Our Wish to You and the Community You Serve
Going Deeper
Resources
Book Study Guide
The People of Maple View
Break Through Questions
Matrix of Cultural Proficiency Books’ and Essential Questions
References
Index
About the author
Franklin Campbell Jones is associate professor of education leadership at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. He completed six years as a tenured faculty member of education leadership at California State University, Los Angeles. He is a national and international facilitator of organization learning and diversity. His 30-year service in education includes tenure as a high school social science teacher, school administrator, and project director for the State of California.
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