Leadership magazine Nov/Dec 2014 V 44 No 2 | 页面 24

Cultural Proficiency:
Why ask
Culturally proficient leaders
intentionally establish
diversity, equity and access
to resources as priorities
for their shared vision,
and create action plans to
achieve that vision.

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s school leaders focus on change
initiatives for improving student
achievement, which question
comes first: What? (the name of
the new program); How? (the implementation process of the new program) or Why?
(the values, assumptions and rationale for a
new or different program).
Accountability measures often focus on
directing schools to the “what” and “how”
of addressing and reducing student achievement differences. Students’ cultural demographics have be [