Guiding Teams to Excellence With Equity
Culturally Proficient Facilitation
Foreword by Randall B. Lindsey
Guide your school through its cultural proficiency transformation
Despite the best efforts of equity leaders, our schools suffer from persistent inequities. Guiding Teams to Excellence with Equity is a must-read for anyone who values equity and excellence and supports the professional learning of adults in our schools. Author John Krownapple helps readers develop as culturally proficient facilitators, and equips them with the skills, tools, and techniques to navigate the obstacles that arise during systemic equity transformations.
- Includes a powerful, running vignette that illustrates common challenges, principles, and solutions
- Focuses on mental models for managing group energy
- Is grounded in a systems model for personal and organizational transformation
- Provides a range of tools for planning culturally proficient learning experiences
This is the book leaders need to learn how to facilitate a group’s journey from awareness to commitment to action in support of inclusion and equity.
"What John has done here is remarkable. He's taken the intuitive art of facilitation, illustrated it with a story, and explained it with theory, data and graphic examples. It's clear, cohesive, comprehensive, and integrated. I like that we follow one story throughout, and that a plethora of facilitation techniques are embedded in that story. I particularly like how facilitation is contrasted with training. John has broken the facilitation rubric into bite-sized pieces, which makes it useful to leaders of professional learning. I love this book; Guiding Teams to Excellence with Equity is a book we've all been waiting for."
Kikanza Nuri-Robins, Author of Fish Out of Water
Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Sacramento
"The power of Guiding Teams to Excellence With Equity comes from the clear definitions offered for commonly used social justice and equity terms. Additional strength is the use of a continuing narrative using believable characters who struggle with the concepts making the book easy and enjoyable to read."
