Culturally Proficient Coaching: Supporting Educators to Create Equitable Schools

Culturally Proficient Coaching: Supporting Educators to Create Equitable Schools

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Culturally Proficient Coaching presents a well-researched approach grounded in the development of trust among people to counteract the imbalance and polarization that exist in today's political, social, economic, and cultural environments that directly impact educational environments. It aligns two frameworks (Cultural Proficiency and Cognitive Coaching), both of which are grounded in the idea that change is a personal, inside-out process. The 2nd Edition of this book extends and enhances conversations about accountability and assessment of educator's work focused on closing instructional and opportunity gaps in North American schools. Although such gaps have persisted for generations, our schools now face increasingly polarized debates and counter-productive patterns of behavior than previously existed. Cultural Proficiency is an inside-out process in which educators critically examine their own attitudes, beliefs, practices, and actions that potentially minimize their effectiveness with students who don't look them. They then focus on school-wide policies and practices that, similarly, marginalize underserved student groups--