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Lead a Common Core implementation that closes achievement gaps!
Will your Common Core implementation promote equity, access, and inclusion?
This illuminating book shows how central Common Core tenets—rigor, meaningful curricula and assessment, and higher order thinking—can become educational realities for every child in your school or district.
Written by a team of respected authors known for guiding schools and districts towards cultural proficiency, this resource enables readers to
Understand how underlying beliefs related to historically-underserved students may create roadblocks to effective instruction
Create a school culture where diversity is valued, including developing relevant professional learning
Compile and analyze meaningful data that enables faculty to better reach students from all backgrounds
Advance the goal of college and career-readiness for all learners
With a compelling call to action and practical strategies, this timely book points the way to a Common Core implementation that benefits every student.
"The authors have ensured that the use of cultural proficiency by educators provides the Common Core State Standards with the 'step towards the place where equity and access are realized for all learners.' Equity and access, two of the pillars of equity in education, are essential if meeting individual student needs are truly to occur."
—Dr. Kenneth R. Magdaleno, Associate Professor
Kremen School of Education, Fresno State, CA
"This resource gives not only theory and rationale for this important change in thinking, but also the guided steps to collaborate and reflect as part of the change process."
—Dr. Carol Van Vooren, Assistant Professor
California State University, San Marcos
Contents
Foreword by Gail L. Thompson
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
Part I: Commitment to Equity, Transformative Change, and Implementation
1. Common Core and Cultural Proficiency: A Commitment Toward Equity
2. History and Hope for Changing Schools
3. The Tools of Cultural Proficiency
4. Promise of the Common Core
5. Leadership and the Common Core
6. From Stuckness to Implementation (or From Yikes to YES!)
PART II: Culturally Proficient Professional Learning
7. Assessing Cultural Knowledge Through Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data to Guide Decisions
8. Valuing Diversity by Developing Skillful Leaders to Create Support Systems for Professional Learning
9. Managing the Dynamics of Diversity by Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities
10. Adapting to Diversity by Applying Evidence-Based Approaches to Actively Engage Educators in Improving Practice
11. Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge by Applying and Connecting a Commitment Toward Common Outcomes for All Students
PART III: Move to Action
12. Ensuring a Culturally Proficient Professional Learning Plan
Resource A: Book Study Guide
Resource B: Cultural Proficiency Books' Essential Questions
References
Index
