The Change You Want to See: A Culturally Responsive and Affirming Approach to School Leadership (Create a Culturally Responsive Leadership Culture - Paperback

Inspire your school leaders to embody an activist mindset to help shape the future of their students and society at large. Authors Dawn Brooks DeCosta and Mark Anthony Gooden combine social-emotional learning and culturally responsive school leadership approaches--in what they term the culturally responsive and affirming social-emotional leadership (CRASEL) framework--to build racial and cultural awareness while addressing individual and community-wide social and emotional needs.

K-12 school and district leaders will:

• Attend to individual and cultural social and emotional needs with research-supported strategies
• Learn Gooden's racial autobiography process as a tool for self-reflection
• Bridge social-emotional learning and culturally responsive leadership with the CRASEL framework
• Collaborate with colleagues to cocreate a shared community vision and encourage accountability
• Glean insights with real-world examples from leaders

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Culturally Responsive School Leadership (CRSL)
Chapter 2: Culturally Responsive and Affirming Social-Emotional Leadership (CRASEL)
Chapter 3: Self-Care
Chapter 4: Racial Autobiography
Chapter 5: School and Community Relationship Building
Chapter 6: Advocacy
Chapter 7: Nurturing Through High Expectations and Cultural Responsiveness
Chapter 8: Building School Culture and Maximizing Partnerships
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index