Full Description
This book responds to the urgent need for instructional practices that recognize student diversity and cultural backgrounds as valuable assets. As the United States continues to grapple with policies that promote culturally dominant ideologies, the opportunity gaps continue to widen for minoritized, marginalized, and otherized PK-12 students. This timely book provides a comprehensive developmental framework for implementing Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision that fosters an educational environment that disrupts the culture of white supremacy, promotes a sense of belonging, and achieves culturally appropriate instructional outcomes for all learners. The authors show educators how to establish diverse and representative supervision teams that provide formative feedback and promote self-reflection. Schools can use this book to effectively observe, assess, and support teachers on their journey toward becoming culturally responsive practitioners. Book Features:
Encourages instructional leaders to embrace their role as equity leaders and actively work to dismantle harmful educational practices.
Offers strategies focused on the strengths and assets children bring to school every day, instead of the deficit-oriented perspectives reinforced by the accountability movement.
Centers sociocultural identities as the key factor to providing feedback to teachers about culturally responsive practices, while maintaining rigorous expectations for student learning and academic outcomes.
Includes foundations, practical approaches, and examples of praxis for the implementation of Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Delivering Equitable Outcomes Through Instructional Supervision
1. A Primer for Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision
2. Confronting the Lack of Diversity in Supervision Frameworks
3. Race-ing Instructional Supervision: Plantation Traditions and Instructional Supervision
4. Toward a Praxis Orientation for Teacher Candidate Supervision
5. Rethinking Teacher Evaluation as Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
6. Using Cultural Knowledge to Develop Structures and Systems That Lead to Equitable and Emancipatory Outcomes
7. The Role of Equity Audits in Culturally Responsive School Leadership
8. Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision and Mindfulness: A Somatic, Embodied Practice
9. Using Classroom Observation and Schoolwide Supervision Data to Facilitate Culturally Responsive Conversations About Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
10. Building Bridges for Change: Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision for Indigenous Students
11. Applying the Supervisory Behavior Continuum to Determine a Plan of Action and Support When Teaching Isn't Culturally Responsive
12. Developing Supervisors' Critical Consciousness
13. Black Women as Instructional Leaders: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
14. Supervision Redux: Leaders With Teachers Activate Culturally Responsive Practices
15. Supervision of Guerrilla Pedagogies
Afterword
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors and Contributors
