Forewords
1st edition-- Flora Ida Ortiz
2nd edition-- Sid Salazar
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
I. Cultural Proficiency and the Achievement Gap
1. Culture Frames Achievement Gaps
Getting Centered
Cultural Proficiency Manages Change
Our Invitation to You: From NCLB to Common Core
The 'Why' of This Book
2. The Importance of Culturally Proficient Leadership
The Case: Maple View
Maple View School District
Maple View: The People
Leadership Action That Matters
Invitation: Assess Your Receptivity
Cultural Proficiency Receptivity Scale
Going Deeper
II. The Tools of Cultural Proficiency: An Inside-Out Change Process
The Conceptual Framework is a Guide
3. Overcoming Self-Imposed Barriers to Moral Leadership
Getting Centered
Maple View Discovers What it Cares About
Entitlement and Privilege as Education History
Transformative Leadership
Facing Entitlement: The Conundrum of Anger, Guilt or Confidence
Reflections on Entitlement: A Pine Hills Elementary School Conversation
Reflections on Entitlement: Oppression, Entitlement, or Self-Determination and Personal Responsibility?
Self Determination and Personal Responsibility: From Feelings to Action
4. Cultural Proficiency in Practice: The Guiding Principles
Sam Brewer: The Making of a Culturally Proficient Practice
Mobilizing Communities to Make Progress – Without Easy Answers
The Guiding Principles of Culturally Proficient Leadership
Focus on Assets, Overcome Barriers
Core Value Expressions in Maple View School District
Applying Guiding Principles to Your Practice
5. The Cultural Proficiency Continuum: Changing the Conversation
Cultural Proficiency: A Transformative Approach
Return to Maple View
6. The Essential Elements as Standards of Leadership Behavior
Tolerance for Diversity vs. Transformation for Equity
Pine Hills High School’s Leadership Approach to Cultural Proficiency
Essential Elements as Standards for Leadership Behavior and School Policy
Making Sense of the Elements, Standards, and Behavior
Template for Strategic Planning
Going Deeper
III. Professional Learning for Organizational Change
7. Conversation: A Skill for the Culturally Proficient Leader
Getting Centered
Skillful Use of Communication Channels
Organizations as Relationships
The Essence of Communication: Co-constructing Meaning
Modes of Conversing
Practicing Conversation Skills
8. Leading in a Culture of Learning and Transformative Change
Learning How to be a Culturally Proficient Leader
Transformative Learning
A Transformative Vision of Maple View School District
Our Wish to You and the Community You Serve
Going Deeper
Resources
Book Study Guide
The People of Maple View
Break Through Questions
Matrix of Cultural Proficiency Books’ and Essential Questions
References
Index