Culturally Proficient Education : An Asset-Based Response to Conditions of Poverty.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
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.
This book is dedicated to providing readers with the knowledge and skills to maximize the educational opportunities for children raised in low socio-economic conditions.
9781452210100
Educational equalization. Children with social disabilities-Education. Poor-Education.