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Shattering Inequities: Real-World Wisdom for School and District Leaders
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Product Description For education leaders who believe that all students deserve the premium education that only some currently experience, Shattering Inequities: Real-World Wisdom for School and District Leaders shows how your leadership can provide equitable outcomes for our most vulnerable students. Chapters include examples of actual equity leaders and leadership lessons as easily retrievable equity hooks—memory cues of complete, complex, and nuanced leadership takeaways. In the throes of educational transformation, the book’s examples provide leaders with practical ways to quickly and effectively infuse substantive thoughtfulness into common equity challenges and inspire equity-driven action to ensure that demographics do not determine destiny. An excellent guide for teachers, administrators, or anyone who wants to turn good intentions into reality for the children they serve. Review In Shattering Inequities , former California school administrator Robin Avelar La Salle and co-author Ruth S. Johnson, an emeritus faculty member at California State University, detail how to address deeply entrenched disparities in a practical and sensitive way. Each chapter revolves around a real-life example derived from the authors’ work in improving schools and districts serving high-poverty, high-minority communities. As they unravel processes and the assumptions on which they are based, the authors provide what equity leaders should say and do when they encounter obstacles. They even suggest how leaders with an equity lens should respond when they don’t know what to say and do. This book is powerful because of its specificity and concreteness — attributes not always found in education leadership texts. This is real-world wisdom indeed. ― School Administrator Shattering Inequities is a powerful yet practical guide for educators who seek to address deeply entrenched disparities in the educational experiences of their students. Written in a style that is clear and direct, this book will serve as an invaluable asset to educators who seek to make a difference in their schools, and in the lives of the children they serve. -- Pedro Noguera Ph.D, Distinguished Professor of Education, faculty director, Center for the Transformation of Schools, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies I believe that all educators come to their work to make a difference for the children who need us the most. Holding that desire in your heart is a necessary condition, but alone will not make a difference. It takes thoughtful, strategic and deliberate action to accomplish this. Robin and Ruth give you a roadmap with proven paths to turn your good intentions into reality for the children you serve. You simply add courage and determination. If you can only read one book this year, read this one. -- Laura Schwalm, retired superintendent, Garden Grove School District, senior partner, California Education Partners Shattering Inequities is for anyone that finds educational disparities unacceptable and wants to initiate sustainable strategies to eliminate these gaps. Avelar La Salle & Johnson’s honest appraisals of personal and systemic barriers, paired with their “equity hooks” offer practical guidance that will take you from wanting to see a change in your school to being the change agent that makes it happen. -- Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, associate director of research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University Shattering Inequities is written for educational leaders with the courage and readiness to expose those systemic practices and mindsets that betray the promise of educational equality for students from historically-disenfranchised communities. The reader profits from what we’ve learned from academic research, combined with the authors’ years of on-the-ground experience working in schools. Avelar La Salle and Johnson provide a myriad of proven strategies for imagining and instituting new practices that enab
