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Guiding Teams to Excellence With Equity
Culturally Proficient Facilitation

Foreword by Randall B. Lindsey



November 2016 | 352 pages | Corwin

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

 
“Based in abundant research, this valuable book contains myriad strategies and protocols for building collective efficacy in educational teams. It is a must for those who wish to perfect their facilitation skills, who desire a deeper understanding of the emotional and cognitive transformation during the human journey of personal enlightenment, and for those who believe that the future of our democracy depends on equity and cultural proficiency.”
Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Sacramento


 
List of Illustrations
 
Foreword
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Introduction
 
PART I. WHY—AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO EXCELLENCE WITH EQUITY
 
Chapter 1. Why This? Why Now? Why Me?
 
Chapter 2. Assumptions About the Work
 
Chapter 3. An Environment of Authentic Engagement
 
Chapter 4. A Process of Transformation
 
Chapter 5. Emergent Change
 
Chapter 6. Internal Capacity for the Work
 
Chapter 7. Paradigm Shift from Presenter to Facilitator
 
PART II. HOW—CULTURAL PROFICIENCY
 
Chapter 8. The Cultural Proficiency Framework (The Content)
 
Chapter 9. The Cultural Proficiency Journey (The Process)
 
PART III. WHAT—CULTURALLY PROFICIENT FACILITATION
 
Chapter 10. Facilitation and Cultural Proficiency
 
Chapter 11. Assessing Culture
 
Chapter 12. Valuing Diversity
 
Chapter 13. Managing the Dynamics of Difference
 
Chapter 14. Adapting to Diversity
 
Chapter 15. Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge
 
Chapter 16. Your Professional Learning Plan for Culturally Proficient Facilitation
 
Appendix
 
References
 
Index

"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."

Raymond Terrell, Interim Chair of Teacher Education
Miami University, Ohio
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Key features

• Provides equity leaders with the requisite knowledge, skills, and dispositions for facilitating Cultural Proficiency
• Includes a powerful, running vignette that illustrates common challenges, principles, and practical solutions
• Focuses on mental models for managing group energy
• Grounded in a systems model for personal and organizational transformation
• Provides facilitators with a range of tools for planning culturally proficient professional learning experiences

 

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