Description
Lead a Common Core implementation that closes achievement gaps!
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. This timely 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
Table of 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
