By Randall B. Lindsey, Kikanza Nuri Robins, and Raymond D. Terrell
Cultural competence is the policies and practices of a school or the values and behaviors of an individual that enable the person or school to interact effectively in a culturally diverse environment. We introduce cultural proficiency as an approach to school leaders with examples relevant to school settings. This approach to the topic of diversity is easy to internalize. It provides a non-threatening, comprehensive, systematic, and systemic structure. Its application is behavioral, focusing on individual performance as well as organizational policies and practices. Many schools and people have an aversion to dealing with their own issues related to equity, affirmative action, and diversity. We wrote this book because cultural proficiency provides a non-threatening, comprehensive, systemic structure for school leaders addressing these issues.
The concepts in this book are easily adapted to other organizational environments. The narrative is enhanced by an extensive case and 50 structured activities.
Cultural Proficiency uses examples from our work over the past 10 years in teaching leaders how to adapt cultural proficiency to their unique situations. Our goals is to provide the reader with a strong conceptual understanding of cultural proficiency and to give specific, practical field-tested applications of this approach.
After reading Cultural Proficiency you will have a model for assessing behavior and programs in your organization. You will have a framework for implementing change within your unit, a department or the entire organization. Additionally, you will have a comprehensive case study and structured exercises to use with your colleagues and staffs for helping them to analyze and address the issues that emerge in diverse environments.
By Kikanza Nuri Robins, Randall B. Lindsey, Delores B. Lindsey and Raymond D. Terrell
Awards:
2007 Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award Finalist
This powerful multimedia training kit is ideal for K-12 teachers and administrators, higher education faculty, adult educators, and trainers in business and healthcare. Providing agendas, overheads, handouts, and an evaluation form to help make workshop planning a turnkey experience, the kit features:
• The bestseller, Culturally Proficient Instruction, Second Edition
• A 40-minute VHS video featuring all four authors
• A DVD with matching video content and easy-to-use navigation features
• A facilitator's guide linking the video/DVD to the book
By Kikanza Nuri Robins, Randall B. Lindsey, Delores B. Lindsey, and Raymond D. Terrell.
To be culturally competent doesn’t mean that you know everything there is to know about others. It means that you have the self-awareness to recognize how you—because of your ethnicity, your culture, and your life experiences—may offend or otherwise affect others. It means that you have the skills to take advantage of teachable moments to tell about yourself and to learn about those who differ from you. This book invites you to reflect on your practice and craft as an instructor and to critically examine not only what you do but also the attitudes you bring to your work. We offer this book as your companion as you journey inward, discovering who you are and how you might create a community of culturally proficient practice in your classroom and among your colleagues.
Culturally Proficient Instruction is for people who teach. You may be an instructor in a K-12 classroom, a university, or a corporate training room; you may call yourself a professor, a trainer, or an instructor. Whatever your teaching context or your title, when presenting subject matter to your students, three factors crucially affect your instruction: (1) your understanding of who you are and what you think about yourself, (2) your understanding of who the learners are what you think about them, and (3) the way in which the learners receive you and the subject matter you are presenting.
With this book, we invite you to reflect on how you influence what goes on in your classroom and how you engage with your colleagues as a community of learners. We invite you to reflect on your practice as an instructor. We assume that you have mastered your subject matter, and we offer you an opportunity to reflect on how you teach, how you create an environment for learning in your classroom, and how the learners in your classroom respond to you and to one another.
By Delores B. Lindsey, Richard S. Martinez and Randall B. Lindsey
Multicultural classrooms require a multifaceted approach to creating inclusive, learning-rich environments that empower all students. To meet this growing need, Culturally Proficient Coaching provides educators with a simple, yet comprehensive, new framework: a powerful fusion of the field-tested and respected Cognitive Coaching(SM) and Cultural Proficiency models. Through a unique approach, the best-selling authors add a new dimension to the concept of Cultural Proficiency, which is based on valuing, respecting, and honoring diverse backgrounds and ethnicities while looking deeply at one’s own beliefs.
This straightforward guide integrates the Five Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency with the Five States of Mind of Cognitive Coaching(SM) to arm educators with the tools necessary to close the achievement gap. It offers a practical strategy for being mindfully attuned to—and leveraging—cultural diversity to optimize student learning.
To boost educators’ cultural confidence and consciousness, while honing their coaching skills, this interactive resource features:
• Action-planning worksheets
• Reflective questions
• Coaching maps and conversation vignettes
• Real-life examples through a composite case story
Teachers, coaches, counselors, staff developers, and administrators will gain inspiration and indispensable insights to break down cultural barriers through enlightened coaching.
by Randall B. Lindsey, Laraine Roberts, Franklin CampbellJones
Leaders need to be responsive to different ethnic, linguistic, and religious subcultures or they will place many students at risk of being excluded from the benefits of a high-quality education. By valuing diversity and preserving the cultural dignity of students, cultural proficiency enables educators to create an inclusive and instructionally powerful learning environment.
The Culturally Proficient School provides the practical strategies, tools, and resources needed to successfully implement cultural proficiency throughout an organization. Providing many opportunities for discussion and contemplation, this book features:
Reflective activities for individuals or groups; sample conversations around issues of diversity, multiculturalism, equity entitlement, and racism; typical behaviors associated with culturally proficient leadership organized around the responsibilities of school leaders; and professional development activities.
By using diversity as an educational resource, cultural proficiency dramatically increases the likelihood that all students will be successful learners. Designed primarily for principles, assistant principals, and other school-based leaders, this innovative field book is a perfect resource for leadership academies.
By Randall B. Lindsey, Stephanie M. Graham, R. Chris Westphal and Cynthia L. Jew
Imagine improving student and teacher performance and enriching the culture in your school while implementing deeper goals for educational equity and long-term success. Using the lens of cultural proficiency, the authors lead practitioners through the process of gathering and analyzing data to meet the needs of historically underserved students.
This book provides educators with a critical evaluation process and rubrics to examine why some students are not being educated to their full potential. The chapters carefully guide readers through the steps of analyzing and using data to:
• Encourage discussions about promoting educational equity for all students
• Create a realistic picture of the cultural and economic diversity of your school
• Initiate authentic systemic change
• Effectively respond to NCLB legislative mandates
With a CD-ROM of tables and spreadsheets for data entry, Culturally Proficient Inquiry provides a model for framing professional conversations and making data-based decisions to ensure that all children receive the education they deserve.
By Kikanza Nuri Robins. Illustrated by Melinda Baker
A journal is a safe place to scream When you need an emotional release, when you have a secret but can't tell anyone, when you will absolutely burst if you can't get it out, a journal is a place to let go of it.
Unspoken Visions can be used as a personal development workshop. You may read and reflect on the affirmations found on each page before writing or allow the inspirational sayings to decorate the pages of your thoughts.
