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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826797203321

Autore

Lindsey Randall B.

Titolo

Culturally proficient education : an asset-based response to conditions of poverty / / Randall B. Lindsey, Michelle S. Karns, Keith Myatt ; foreword by Dennis Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Corwin

[Arlington, Virginia] : , : American Association of School Administrators, , 2010

ISBN

1-4522-7145-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 161 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

371.8269420973

Soggetti

Children with social disabilities - Education

Poor - Education

Educational equalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I - Why Poverty and Cultural Proficiency?""; ""Chapter 1 - Asset-Based Approaches to Students From Low-Income or Impoverished Communities""; ""Chapter 2 - The Middle Class School in Communities of Poverty""; ""Chapter 3 - The Cultural Proficiency Tools Build on Assets""; ""Part II - Prosocial School Applications""; ""Chapter 4 - Culturally Proficient Pedagogy""; ""Chapter 5 - Culturally Proficient Leadership Support for Instruction""

""Chapter 6 - Policy Development to Ensure and Support Teaching and Learning""""Part III - A Call to Action""; ""Chapter 7 - A Call to Action: The Time Is Now""; ""Resource A - Cultural Proficiency Conceptual Framework""; ""Resource B - State Teachers' Association Retreat Script""; ""Resource C - Taniko's Poem""; ""Resource D - How to Use the Cultural Proficiency Books""; ""References""; ""Suggested Additional Readings""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Develop culturally proficient policies and practices that create opportunities for students of poverty!  Countering the perspective that students from poverty come to school with deficits that prevent them from learning, this resource offers educators the knowledge and skills



to maximize educational opportunities for all students, independent of students' socioeconomic status. Using the framework of cultural proficiency, this guide features:     An examination of how poverty intersects with other groupings, including race, ethnicity, and language acquisition    Research-based teaching strateg