Randall B. Lindsey, Stephanie M. Graham, Jr. R. Chris Westphal

Culturally Proficient Inquiry

A Lens for Identifying and Examining Educational Gaps

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Use inquiry to promote equity and transform your school's educational environment! Using cultural proficiency as a lens, the authors guide practitioners through the process of gathering and analyzing data to meet the needs of historically underserved students. This book outlines a critical evaluation process and provides rubrics to examine why some students are not being educated to their full potential. With a CD-ROM of tables and spreadsheets for data entry, the book show educators how to: Encourage discussions about educational equity Create a realistic picture of a school's cultural and economic diversity Initiate authentic systemic change Effectively respond to NCLB mandates

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781412926027
• ISBN-10: 1412926025
• Artikelnr.: 22975591

Autorenporträt

Randall B. Lindsey is principal associate of The Robins Group. He is professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he served as chair of the Division of Administration and Counseling in the School of Education. He has served as a junior and senior high school teacher of history and as an administrator of school desegregation and staff development programs. He has worked extensively with school districts as they plan for and experience changing populations.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Creating Culturally Proficient Schools
1. The Unfolding of the Democracy as a Moral Imperative
2. The Tools of Cultural Proficiency
Part II. Knowing the Demographics of Your School
3. NAEP Data Show the Way, With Limitations
4. The Peer Group Model: Achievement and Access Data
5. Planning the Cultural Proficiency Inquiry
6. Rubrics as Keys to the Cultural Proficiency Inquiry
Part III. The ABC Case Study School and Your School
7. Data Set #1: Finding Meaning in Achievement Data
8. Data Set #2: Finding Meaning in Student Access Data
9. Data Set #2 (Extended): Finding Meaning in Access Data Unique to
Secondary Schools
10. Data Set #3: Profiles of Educator Conversations About Your Students
11. Advocacy for Social Justice
Appendix
References
Index