Leadership for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Schools explores how schools can cultivate students' linguistic and cultural proficiencies, provide students with a rich and challenging learning environment, and ensure that students are socioculturally integrated. Containing special features such as Storyboxes to detail specific cases of how school leaders put theory into practice, and integrated exercises to provide launching points for critical dialogue and help readers make connections to their own contexts, this book brings together research from the field of bilingual education and school improvement to provide a strong theoretical and research framework as well as best practices for supporting all students. Authors Scanlan and López provide aspiring and practicing leaders the guidance to lead, organize, and support their schools to effectively serve linguistically and culturally diverse students.
A Companion Website includes exercises from the book available for download and modification and a blog focused on emerging research and effective practices.
Autorentext
Martin Scanlan is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership at Marquette University, USA.
Francesca A. López is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at University of Arizona, USA.
Zusammenfassung
Leadership for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Schools provides aspiring and practicing leaders the guidance to lead, organize, and support their schools to effectively serve linguistically and culturally diverse students. Authors Scanlan and Lopez explore how schools can cultivate students' linguistic and cultural proficiencies, provide students with a rich and challenging learning environment, and ensure that students are socioculturally integrated. Bringing together research from the field of bilingual education and school improvement, this book provides a strong theoretical and research framework as well as best practices for supporting all students. Special Features include:Storyboxes are used to detail specific cases of how school leaders put theory into practice, illustrate concepts, and show the "messiness" of how school transformation unfolds in reality. Exercises are integrated throughout each chapter providing launching points for critical dialogue and helping readers make connections to their own contexts. A Companion Website includes exercises from the book available for download and modification and a blog focused on emerging research and effective practices.
Inhalt
Foreword by Eugene Garcia
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Orientation to the Expedition
Part I
Chapter 2: Research Literature on Promoting Sociocultural Integration
Chapter 3: How Do School Leaders Promote Sociocultural Integration?
Part II
Chapter 4: Research Literature on Cultivating Language Proficiency
Chapter 5: How Do School Leaders Cultivate Language Proficiency?
Part III
Chapter 6: Research Literature on Supporting Academic Achievement
Chapter 7: How Do School Leaders Ensure Academic Achievement?
Chapter 8: Conclusion: The road is made by walking
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