Making a Difference: Instructional Leadership That Drives Self-Reflection and Va

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Supervision frameworks tend to lack the ability to identify, address, and provide feedback about how racial, cultural, and socioeconomic factors contribute to the sociocultural gap that so often exists between teachers and students in the US. To accomplish this, however, a mo...

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In a contemporary sense, the United States education system has become a cultural and political battleground. The US has witnessed a surge in racially motivated violence, restrictions on women's reproductive rights, and xenophobic policies. The most alarming development is the institutionalization of white supremacist ideologies that suppress the teaching of accurate histories of our racially stratified society. The US continues to grapple with social domination based on various sociocultural identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, identity, ability, and other lived experiences.This book aims to equip educators with a framework for providing instructional leadership that ensures culturally responsive instruction. Changing what is taught, how it is taught, and who it is intended for is one of the most effective ways of contributing to a more progressive, equitable, and inclusive society. This requires instructional leaders to become equity leaders who mitigate harmful educational practices from prepackaged curricula and teacher evaluation systems. Through an intentionally diverse team of educators, schools can observe, measure, and support teachers to become culturally responsive instructors through formative feedback structures. It is through the practice of culturally responsive instructional supervision that schools can transform from systems of oppression into systems of opportunity.

Author Biography

Ian M. Mette is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership where he focuses his interests on the development of culturally responsive instructional supervision and developing equity-minded school leaders in predominantly White rural spaces. Specifically, his work targets closing the gap between theory and practice to inform and support equitable school improvement efforts for all studentsDwayne Ray Cormier is an Assistant Professor and entrepreneur specializing in instructional supervision and asset-based pedagogies. His research focuses on developing unplugged and plugged andrological, pedagogical, and supervision tools that assess and codify educators' sociocultural gaps and examine their impact on cultural competence, teacher-student relationships, educational opportunity gaps, and school culture.Yanira Oliveras-Ortiz is an Associate Professor of Curriculum & Instruction with a specialization on instructional supervision and school improvement. She had led the national implementation of instructional supervision in Belize. Through her work in Belize, she has engaged teacher preparation programs in the development of action plans to move from evaluation to instructional supervision, and from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction.

Table of Contents

Contents Prologue Preface Acknowledgments IntroductionThe Instructional Leader as an Equity LeaderTo whom and what are we most accountable?Why leadership is crucial to the conversationWhy we need culturally responsive instructional supervision nowHow developing empathy can make our communities betterLearning to stand up to hatred Part IAddressing the Feedback Loop Problem in US Schools Chapter 2Shifting Feedback from Hierarchical to HelpfulShifting away from plantation practicesReexamining the purpose of feedback about instructionUtilizing ongoing conversations to cocreate knowledge and promote authentic accountabilityLeveraging relational trust to promote more inclusive instructionChapter 3Liberating Ourselves from Prepackaged Systems Why moving beyond the checklist is so importantHow templates prevent critical thinkingLearning to create feedback practices that are immediately usefulDeveloping common language and assumptions about learning Meeting policy requirements through pedagogies that lead to equitable outcomesChapter 4Learning to Engage in a Community of Culturally Responsive Instructors (CCRI)Considering the role of data in acts of educational resistanceWhy autonomy is at the heart of inclusive instructionHow critical colleagues can collaborate for co-liberationSharing learning as a form of love across a school cultureQuestioning power structures to address systemic inequityThe challenges of moving forward with the workPart IIDeveloping a Team of Inclusive Instructional Leaders Chapter 5Being Intentional about RepresentationWhy representation mattersShifting away from racial and sexual contractsOther sociocultural identities to considerDetermining how 'instructional success' is measuredThe goal is not to maintain comfortablenessBeing clear about steps for successChapter 6Working Together to Determine What Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision Looks LikeDetermining goals for walkthroughsWhat does equity data look like in a walkthrough?How ongoing instructional reflections inform practiceThe process of examining walkthrough dataUsing data to drive professional development effortsChapter 7Establishing A Plan of Action When Instruction is Not InclusiveDefining what teaching looks like that lacks cultural responsivenessDetermining feedback and support structures to addresses problematic pedagogiesFurther developing reflective and inclusive instructionSeeing criticality as a tool for emancipationDeveloping the scaffolding for transformation Part III Supporting Ongoing Growth and Development of Culturally Responsive Instruction Chapter 8Growth Starts with the SelfUsing agency to address the purpose of educationOwning content expertiseLearning to address the needs of society over our own comfortKnowing pedagogical look-fors when reflecting on teachingChapter 9Learning to Grow with Critical ColleaguesHow critical colleagues help to better understand the self and othersTopics of discussion for critical colleague groupsBeing purposeful with discussions to drive difficult growth edgesUsing every group conversation as an opportunity to discuss equity Chapter 10Using Peer-Led Classroom Observations to Drive Equitable OutcomesHow peer walkthroughs can help calibrate building-wide expectationsUsing peer feedback to inform inquiry cyclesTransforming feedback to deconstruct systems of inequityAllowing instructional improvement efforts to evolved over time for more equitable outcomes ConclusionSignaling a Shift in Where We Must GoResisting technorational approaches to improving instruction Using supervision to support a system of opportunity Honoring 'getting into good trouble'A closing note to practitioner

Details ISBN1475872267 Author Yanira Oliveras Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781475872262 Format Paperback Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-11-15 UK Release Date 2023-11-15 ISBN-10 1475872267 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield DEWEY 379.260973 AU Release Date 2023-11-14 Pages 152 Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Subtitle Instructional Leadership That Drives Self-Reflection and Values the Expertise of Teachers Place of Publication Lanham, MD Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White Illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2023-09-22 US Release Date 2023-09-22 We've got this

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