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Culturally Proficient Leadership

The Personal Journey Begins Within

Second Edition
By: Raymond D. Terrell, Eloise K. Terrell, Randall B. Lindsey, Delores B. Lindsey

Foreword by Dan Alpert

Your roadmap to culturally proficient leadership

Becoming a culturally proficient leader is a personal learning journey of will and skill, a journey that will change how you see your school, your students, and yourself as you build cultural competence. Consider this second edition your personal road map for navigating that journey.

Engage in Reflections and Cultural Interviews to explore what you learn about those who are culturally different from you
Develop a Cultural Autobiography to provide a picture of the cultural memberships that have influenced who you are
Use the Cultural Proficiency Continuum to examine your progress as a leader
Prepare an intentional Leadership Plan that summarizes your journey from Cultural Precompetence to Cultural Proficiency

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781506385273
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2018
Page Count: 248
Publication date: June 22, 2018

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Description

Becoming a culturally proficient leader requires the kind of courage, clarity, and insight that can only come from looking inward first. It’s a personal learning journey of will and skill, and if you’re up to the challenge, one that will change how you see your school, your students, and yourself as you build your own cultural competence. Consider this second edition of Culturally Proficient Leadershipyour personal road map for navigating that journey.

Each chapter of Culturally Proficient Leadership invites you to put your experiences up front and challenges you to reframe your story based on multiple viewpoints—now, notably, with the addition of new coauthors Delores Lindsey and Eloise Kemp Terrell, who have their own remarkable stories and insight to share. Overall, all four authors will help you answer the critical question “Is what we say what we do?” utilizing the tools of Cultural Proficiency to

engage in Reflections and Cultural Interviews to explore what you learn about those who are culturally different from you
develop a Cultural Autobiography to provide a picture of the cultural memberships that have influenced who you are as a person
use the Cultural Proficiency Continuum to examine your progress as a leader in serving your students and communities
prepare an intentional Leadership Plan that summarizes your journey from Cultural Precompetence to Cultural Proficiency

The central “inside-out” premise of Cultural Proficiency is that engaging in deep introspection around one’s personal beliefs, values, and behaviors in response to human differences is the first step toward systemic educational reform. We invite you to embark on this journey of self-awareness, of moral courage, and of the life-affirming power of human diversity.

“I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together—unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and may not come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction: toward a better future for our children and our grandchildren.”
—Barack Obama, Los Angeles Times, 2008

Key features

Different from other leadership books in that it is based on the premise that a leader must clearly understand his or her own assumptions, beliefs and values in order to be effective in cross-cultural settings
Personal journey narratives provide a guide to readers for discovering their own cultural identities. They also serve as a powerful illustration of "Inside-Out" growth processes.
An effective companion to other books on cultural proficiency including Corwin Press bestsellers Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders; Culturally Proficient Instruction: A Guide for People Who Teach; and The Culturally Proficient School: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders.
Chronologically-ordered chapters provide historical context to the development of racial and cultural identities
The reflective activities and cultural interview protocols guide readers to understand their own assumptions, to know their values relative to equity issues, and to create change within their own practice.

Author(s)

Raymond D. Terrell

Raymond Terrell, EdD. retired as Associate Dean for Research and Diversity and member of he department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Oxford< Ohio. He previously worked at California State University, Los Angeles where he served as Professor of Educational Administration and for five years he was the Dean of the School of Eduction. His journey in education began in a public school district where he taught English to junior and senior high students;. He also was a principal and an assistant superintend in the same district. Dr. Terrell is co-author on a number of books including , Cultural Proficiency: and a A Manual for School Leaders, Cultural Proficient Leadership. His books and numerous articles and life’s work have all focused on issues of equity and inclusion

Eloise K. Terrell

Eloise Terrell is a life-long champion for social justice, equity and inclusion. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband who is also a co-author on this edition of the book. She worked for 15 years in California as a banker holding a number of positions including Teller, Teller Supervisor, Assistant Branch Supervisor and Platform Supervisor. After returning to Cincinnati she rejoined the work force by obtaining a CDA (Child Development Associate Credential) and spent ten years supervising a progressive day care center. She has been active in voter registration efforts and managing election campaigns for candidates who held moral and ethical positions.

Randall B. Lindsey

Randall B. Lindsey is Emeritus Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He has served as a teacher, an administrator, executive director of a non-profit corporation, as Interim Dean at California Lutheran University, as Distinguished Educator in Residence at Pepperdine University, and as Chair of the Education Department at the University of Redlands. All of Randy’s experiences have been in working with diverse populations and his area of study is the behavior of white people in multicultural settings. His Ph.D. is in Educational Leadership from Georgia State University, his Master of Arts in Teaching is in History Education from the University of Illinois, and his B.S. in Social Science Education is from Western Illinois University. He has served as a junior high school and high school teacher and as an administrator in charge of school desegregation efforts. At Cal State, L.A. he served as Chair of the Division of Administration and Counseling and as Director of the Regional Assistance Centers for Educational Equity, a regional race desegregation assistance center. With co-authors he has written several books and articles on applying the Cultural Proficiency Framework in various contexts.

Email – randallblindsey@gmail.com
Website - CCPEP.org
Twitter - @RBLindsey41

Delores B. Lindsey

Dr. Delores B. Lindsey retired as Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at California State University San Marcos; however, she has not retired from the education profession. Her primary focus is developing culturally proficient leaders. She helps educational leaders examine their organizations’ policies and practices, and their individual beliefs and values about cross-cultural communication. Her message to her audiences focuses on viewing, creating, and managing socially just educational practices, culturally proficient leadership practice, and diversity as an asset to be nurtured. Her favorite reflective question is: Are we who we say we are? Delores and husband Randall, her favorite Sage/Corwin author, continue to co-write about the application of the four Tools of Cultural Proficiency. Her most recent publication, which is on the Bestseller list from Corwin, is Leading While Female, A Culturally Proficient Response for Gender Equity, with Trudy Arriaga and Stacie Stanley.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Art of Hosting: Diversity

About the Authors

Introduction

Part I. Leadership Is a Developed Personal Perspective

1. The Leadership Journey Begins Within

2. The Cultural Proficiency Leadership Lens

3. Constructing Your Cultural Autobiography

Part II. Knowing Ourselves

4. Leaders Responding to Issues Related to Race, Ethnicity, and National Origin

5. Leaders Responding to Issues Related to Language, Gender, and Social Class

6. Leaders Responding to Issues Related to Sexual Orientation, Faith, and Ableness

Part III. Leading From an Ethical Framework

7. Culturally Competent and Proficient Leadership Actions

8. Educators and the Promise of Democracy

9. A Note to Those Preparing Educational Leaders

Resources

A. Authors’ Autobiographies

B. Cultural Proficiency Books’ Essential Questions

References and Further Readings

Index

Reviews

"We’re so pleased to see the newest edition of Culturally Proficient Leadership is coming out soon! We have used the first edition of this valuable book for the last several years as one of the core texts for our course, “Educational Leadership for Diverse Learners,” and look forward to using the new edition. The very personal and interactive nature of the book provides our students, who are preparing to be school principals, both a model of what a deeply self-reflective journey looks like and a structure for engaging in such a journey for themselves. Through this work, we have seen dozens of future school leaders move into a process of personal development in a manner that both celebrates their journey and challenges their thinking. This most recent edition is updated to include references to the most recent version of ESSA and includes the voices of women by adding the perspectives and stories of the original authors’ life partners to the mix. These additions are timely and important as more and more women seek roles in educational leadership. It’s about time."

Patricia A. Talbot and Brad E. Bizzell, Associate Professors of Educational Leadership
Radford University

"The Lindseys and Terrells continue to empower educators by sharing the tools of cultural proficiency. The guiding principles presented here are uniquely designed to ensure that, within our nation's beautifully diverse schools, every student knows adults who will help them thrive."

Joe Gothard, Superintendent
Saint Paul Public Schools

"Culturally Proficient Leadership has served as a reflective tool in assisting our school site principals through their personal journeys as culturally proficient leaders. As they reflect on their own experiences, our principals gain better understanding in order to respond to those day to day questions, concerns, and issues that arise on school campuses, which often times hold cultural underpinnings. Through the content in Chapters 1-4 and the accompanying reflective writing practices, our site leaders have begun to construct their own cultural autobiographies. Most effective have been the candid conversations principals have started having with each other about their own upbringing, as well as their noticings, wonderings, and increased self-awareness of their culture. More importantly, this self-awareness is building increased effectiveness in cross-cultural settings. These guided learnings continue to build those skills needed in supporting our community."

Cindy De Clercq and Mercedes Hubschmitt, Executive Director II and Director, Learning Support Services
Poway Unified School District

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