Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

Elena Aguilar's book "Coaching for Equity" provides a guide to creating equitable schools by opening hearts to purposeful conversation and honing skills to make those conversations effective. It offers an updated coaching framework and rubrics, as well as a comprehensive set of coaching tools, to help implement Transformational Coaching in any organization. The book covers critical topics in the larger conversation about racial equity and helps readers develop the knowledge, dispositions, and skills to talk productively about race, build trust, unpack mental models, observe classrooms, collect data, inspire others, and deepen commitment. It is perfect for teachers, teacher leaders, coaches, and administrators who choose to accept responsibility for interrupting inequities in schools.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2020
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

If we hope to interrupt educational inequities and create schools in which every child thrives, we must open our hearts to purposeful conversation and hone our skills to make those conversations effective. With characteristic honesty and wisdom, Elena Aguilar inspires us to commit to transforming our classrooms, lays bare the hidden obstacles to equity, and helps us see how to overcome these obstacles, one conversation at a time.

Coaching for Equity is packed with the resources necessary to implement Transformational Coaching in any organization. In addition to an updated coaching framework and corresponding rubrics, a comprehensive set of coaching tools puts success in every coach's hands. Extensive personal narratives demonstrate what coaching for equity looks like and help us see how we can make every conversation count towards building a more just and equitable world.

Coaching for Equity covers critical topics in the larger conversation about racial equity, and helps readers develop the knowledge, dispositions, and skills to be able to:

Talk productively about race,

Build trust to support vulnerability,

Unpack mental models and change someone's mind,

Observe classrooms and collect data to support equitable outcomes,

Inspire others and deepen commitment,

Evaluate and celebrate growth.

Perfect for teachers, teacher leaders, coaches, and administrators, Coaching for Equity offers extensive strategies for talking about race, power, and systems of oppression. In framing the rationale for transformational conversations, Coaching for Equity gives us the context we need to enter into this work. In laying out the strategies, tools, and models for critical conversations, it gives us the way forward.

Comprehensive, practical, and deeply informed, Coaching for Equity is a must-read for anyone committed to creating a more just and equitable world.

Weight: 744g
Dimension: 193 x 234 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119592273