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Collective Equity

A Movement for Creating Communities Where We All Can Breathe
By: Sonja Hollins-Alexander, Nicole Law

Foreword by John Almarode

Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071844748
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2021
  • Page Count: 216
  • Publication date: October 29, 2021
Price: $39.95
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Description

Description

It’s time for a new beginning

As we transition through very uncertain and challenging times, we have a chance to start again—and do better as a Collective. With newfound acknowledgment of the damage done by structural inequities, systemic racism, and implicit bias, we are ready to create communities that value and support everyone.

In education, that means challenging and dismantling systems that have harmed historically marginalized children and families for generations. Here you’ll find a powerful model for using relational trust, cultural humility, and appreciation of diverse perspectives to build learning communities that collectively uplift all students and all members of the learning community. Features include

  • An original Collective Equity Framework for creating transformative equitable learning environments
  • Protocols for enacting cultural humility, vulnerability, and mutuality dispositions leveraged to create culturally sustaining learning communities
  • Strategies and tools for organizational analyses to guide conversations that support the implementation of culturally fortifying practices at organizational, curricular, programmatic, and instructional levels
  • A behavioral-outcome measurement tool for charting the progress of the members of the Collective towards developing culturally conscious actions and equity focused outcomes.
  • Vignettes and case studies from district and school leaders reflecting examples of how the collective members of their organizations work towards creating transformative equitable learning environments

Positive outcomes always take work. When we build relational trust, value and validate the dimensions of identities for all members in the learning community as a Collective, we are able to create Equity Pathways and Equity Pavers to chart a new course where we can ALL Breathe and achieve our shared objective: educational equity for all.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Sonja Hollins-Alexander

Sonja Hollins-Alexander is the associate vice president, content advisor, and scholar for Corwin Publishing. She has been in the field of education and publishing for thirty years with sixteen of those being in educational leadership at the school, district, and higher education levels, and eight of those being in educational consulting and publishing. During this time, she has served as a school social worker, teacher, assistant principal, principal, coordinator, director of professional learning, and chief of staff, serving in two Metro Atlanta, Georgia, school districts. She continued her profession beyond K–12 as a senior consultant for professional development firms and independently. She has also served on numerous United Way nonprofit boards and served as the board president for Learning Forward Georgia and as a member of the National Affiliate Leadership Council for Learning Forward.

Through her professional journey, she has had experiences in strategic planning, policy development, stakeholder communication and engagement, instructional and curriculum design, facilitation of adult learning strategy, executive leadership coaching, and conference fFacilitation and design, and has served on numerous quality assurance teams with Cognia school accreditation and certification organization. She is a Corwin author of Online Professional Development Through Virtual Learning Communities and coauthor of Collective Equity.

Sonja holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a master’s degree in social work, a teaching certificate in middle grades language arts, a specialist’s degree in educational administration and leadership, and a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction. She is committed to partner engagement and implementation of evidence-informed sustained professional learning services that positively impact teaching and learning—not by chance but by design.
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Nicole Law

Nicole Law, PhD, author consultant presents in the areas of leadership, professional learning communities, culturally responsive pedagogy, educating multilingual learners, and multidimensional aspects for Visible Learning. In addition, she has served as a curriculum coordinator for English language learners, cultural responsivity, AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination), district equity, and mathematics and science instruction in the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, Indiana. In this position, Nicole created multilayered and multifaceted professional learning for teachers and administrators covering all aspects of directed programs and curricular areas. In 2008, Nicole received the National Milken Award from the state of Indiana. Prior to her leadership role, Nicole was a science teacher, administrator, and a building principal. She has an MEd in elementary administration and supervision from Butler University and a PhD from Indiana State University. Nicole is the coauthor of Collective Equity: A Movement for Creating Communities Where We Can All Breathe and
Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading
. She is also the coauthor of The Reflective Leader: Implementing a Multidimensional
Leadership Performance System.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword


Acknowledgments


Publisher’s Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction


Chapter 1: Coming Together


Coming Together Through Our Shared Truth

Working Together

Coming Together to Work Together

Connecting Dimensions of Identity

Community Agreements and Equity Fatigue

Coming Together Using a Collective Equity Framework

Equity Pathways and Equity Pavers

Understanding the Three Levels of Culture

From Culturally Conscious to Culturally Humble (An Equity Pathway)

Chapter 2: Cultivating an Environment of Collective Equity


From Deficit Thinking to Asset-Based Actions

Shared Truths and Purpose

Vision and Mission Development

Essential Components of Collective Equitable Cultures

Collective Engagement by Design Process

Chapter 3: Enacting Motivation and Relational Trust for the Collective Equity Movement


Relational Trust

The Circle of Trust Approach

The Art of the Heart

The Stimuli of Building Relational Trust

Motivation to Nurture the Collective

Can We Breathe?

Chapter 4: Culturally Fortifying Practices


From Equity Moves to Culturally Fortifying Transformational Practices

Culturally Fortifying Classroom Strategies

Chapter 5: Equity Dispositions for The Collective


Cultural Sustainability

From Systems to Classrooms

Collective Efficacy

Collective Equity Dispositions

Chapter 6: Realizing the Promise of Collective Equity


Leading for Collective Equity

Collective Equity Leadership Attributes

Disrupting Systems of Oppression and Inequity

Engaging the Collective

Equity Pathways

Equity Pavers

Final Words From the Authors


Glossary


References


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