A Culturally Proficient Response to the Common Core

Delores B. Lindsey - California State University, San Marcos, USA
Karen M. Kearney
Delia Estrada
Raymond D. Terrell - Miami University, (OH)
Randall B. Lindsey - California State University Los Angeles, USA

Foreword by Gail L. Thompson

Courses:
Multicultural / Multiethnic Education

December 2014 | 240 pages | Corwin

Lead a Common Core implementation that closes achievement gaps!

Will your Common Core implementation promote equity, access, and inclusion?

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.

Written by a team of respected authors known for guiding schools and districts towards cultural proficiency, this 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

With a compelling call to action and practical strategies, this timely book points the way to a Common Core implementation that benefits every student.

"The authors have ensured that the use of cultural proficiency by educators provides the Common Core State Standards with the 'step towards the place where equity and access are realized for all learners.' Equity and access, two of the pillars of equity in education, are essential if meeting individual student needs are truly to occur."

—Dr. Kenneth R. Magdaleno, Associate Professor

Kremen School of Education, Fresno State, CA

“This resource gives not only theory and rationale for this important change in thinking, but also the guided steps to collaborate and reflect as part of the change process."

—Dr. Carol Van Vooren, Assistant Professor

California State University, San Marcos

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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

Key features

(1) The first book to explicitly address the issues of equity and diversity as opportunities or omissions of the Common Core State Standards.

(2) Uses the lens of Cultural Proficiency as basis for creating school-wide conditions that make the Common Core accessible to all students including those groups that have been historically underserved.

(3) Includes a number of reflective and professional learning dialogic activities to guide educators and school leaders to understand their own assumptions, to know their values relative to equitable issues, to create change within their own practice and to create teaching and learning environments that are relevant and rigorous for all learners.

(4) Presents an Implementation Rubric to help leaders develop culturally proficient response to the Common Core.

(5) Integrates a mix of case stories and personal disclosure experiences to illustrate and demonstrate reflection and dialogue.