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We Can't Lead Where We Won't Go
By: Gary R. Howard
From the leading voice in systemic equity reform, this guide anchors a new set of professional development materials addressing today’s educational inequities in race, gender and more.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781483352411
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2014
- Page Count: 360
- Publication date: September 09, 2014
Price: $329.95
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Description
Bring the gold standard in equity-centered professional development to your school.
Gary R. Howard has secured his reputation as a powerful and effective voice in systemic equity reform. His writings and seminars confronting the most difficult issues of race and privilege in modern education have transformed teacher mindsets and improved outcomes for diverse students in America and abroad.
This guide is the cornerstone of a new set of professional development materials developed by Howard to address today’s educational inequities. Eschewing the punitive tone that often characterizes this dialogue in favor of a focus on the healing process, it includes:
- Activities for educators to examine both their overt and hidden attitudes toward race, class, gender, sexual identity, and other dimensions of difference
- Prompts for interacting with a companion set of insightful videos hosted by Howard
- Techniques for peer observation that foster self-sustaining growth for every teacher
- Seven Principles For Culturally Responsive Teaching that can be applied in any school
- Over 9 hours of video footage of Gary Howard introducing and facilitating the program
As demographics continue to shift and educational inequities stubbornly persist, Howard's approach is critically needed in every school. By applying the tools and lessons of this guide, your school will become an example for others to follow.
"Gary Howard has once again brought clarity and humanity to the work of improving schools for students of all backgrounds, not just for the most privileged. Although the majority of school reform efforts are devised by those outside schools who know little about public education—policymakers, politicians, business people, and philanthropists—those who suffer the consequences of current toxic reforms are principals, teachers, and students. This book, focusing instead on inclusion, equity, and excellence, is a principled guide for creating a more hopeful and socially just vision, one school at a time."
—Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Hats off to Gary Howard. He has written and organized, in one much-needed volume, thoughtful tested activities for successful professional development centered on equity."
—Carl A. Grant, Professor of Education
University of Wisconsin Madison
Key features
(2) Re-engages teachers and school leaders in the real work of improving their schools, particularly in those settings with a high percentage of our nation’s most marginalized students.
(3) Guides educators through a personal journey relative to race, culture, class, language, gender, sexual identity, and other dimensions of difference.
(4) Supports school leaders and their faculties in an examination of their actual practices, the real-time work of creating authentic and effective relationships with their diverse students.
(5) This powerful professional development program features an original video series hosted by master educator and best-selling author, Gary Howard.
Author(s)
Gary R. Howard
Mr. Howard has provided extensive training in cultural competence and culturally responsive practice to schools, universities, social service agencies, and businesses throughout the United States and Australia. He is the author of numerous articles on race, justice, and multicultural issues and has developed collections of curriculum materials that are being used internationally. His landmark book, We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know: White Teachers/Multiracial Schools (Second Edition, 2006), published by Columbia University, is considered a groundbreaking work examining issues of privilege, power, and the role of White leaders and educators in a multicultural society.
The central focus of Gary Howard’s current work, which is documented in We Can’t Lead Where We Won’t Go: An Educator’s Guide to Equity, is leading intensive Equity Leadership Institutes that provide educational organizations with the internal capacity to deliver high quality professional development for social justice and systemic change. Mr. Howard is frequently asked to deliver keynote addresses at regional and national conferences. In these presentations he draws on a wide range of experiences and travel exploring diversity and social justice issues with leaders from many cultures around the world. Mr. Howard’s speeches employ rich imagery and stories drawn from his annual white water equity workshops on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Manual Introduction
Orientation to the Professional Development Process
Inclusion, Equity, Excellence
Phases of the Work
Levels of Engagement
Phase One: Tone and Trust
Phase One Introduction
Working Agreements
Questions to Consider
Cultural Bingo
¿Quienes Somos?
Tone and Trust Assessment
Phase Two: Personal Culture and Personal Journey
Phase Two Introduction
Sharing Personal Culture
Culture Toss
Definition of Cultural Competence
I Am From Poems
Stages of Personal Growth
Personal Growth Project
Phase Three: From Social Dominance to Social Justice
Phase Three Introduction
We, the People
The Guessing Game
Definition and Dynamics of Social Dominance
From Social Dominance to Social Justice
Privilege and Power School Assessment
Focus on Race Conversation
Shifting the Emotional Paradigm
Phase Four: Classroom Implications and Applications
Phase Four Introduction
School Outcomes Assessment
Equity Environments that Work
The Seven Principles for Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT)
CRT Study Groups
CRT Action Research
Learning From and With Colleagues
CRT Peer Observation Process
Achievement Triangle
Phase Five: Systemic Transformation and Planning for Change
Phase Five Introduction
Dimensions of Growth
Stages of Institutional Growth
Catalysts for Transformation
Organizational Kudos and Challenges
Co-Responsibility Work Groups
Dealing with Resistance
Implementation Planning Guide
Ideas for Integrating and Sustaining the Work
Student Voices and Youth Equity Leadership
Sample Research and Evaluation Design and Outcomes
Suggested Readings from Gary Howard
As Diversity Grows, So Must We
Speaking of Difference: Reflections on the Possibility of Culturally Competent Conversations
Whites in Multicultural Education: Rethinking Our Role
How We Are White
School Improvement for All: Reflections on the Achievement Gap
Dispositions of Good Teaching
References
Reviews
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"Gary Howard has once again brought clarity and humanity to the work of improving schools for students of all backgrounds, not just for the most privileged. Although the majority of school reform efforts are devised by those outside schools who know little about public education – policymakers, politicians, business people, and philanthropists – those who suffer the consequences of current toxic reforms are principals, teachers, and students. This book, focusing instead on inclusion, equity, and excellence, is a principled guide for creating a more hopeful and socially just vision, one school at a time."Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture
College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Hats off to Gary Howard. He has written and organized in one much needed volume thoughtful tested activities for successful professional development for equity."Carl A. Grant, Hoefs Bascom Professor
University Wisconsin-Madison