Empowering Leaders With Cultural Proficiency

Praxis Lead Equity partners with educators, leaders, and organizations to create inclusive, equitable, and culturally proficient learning environments.

Access and Equity with Courage

A fundamental challenge for today’s educators is understanding and recognizing how individual and organizational beliefs, professional values, and behaviors, impact cultural difference associated with diversity. This requires culturally proficient leaders to manage dynamics of difference through an awareness of intersectionality to better acknowledge and address differences among us. Sharpening our “lens” to how we see ourselves and others, will have a powerful and positive impact on how we lead policy and decision making, curriculum and instruction, and build positive relationships. Improving district/school site climate and culture requires courage capable of leading change towards closing and eliminating achievement, opportunity, and equity gaps.
You Belong

Affiliations and Partnerships

About Our Facilitators

Dr. Peter Flores

Founder and principal consultant of Praxis Lead Equity, LLC.

Dr. Delia Estrada

K-12 Educator, Administrator & Coordinator, Los Angeles Unified School District

Dr. Rosa Guerra

Director of Leadership and Board Member Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR)

Our Concepts & Tools

Praxis is defined as “action relating theory to practice, in a specific context that challenges power relationships and leads to transformative action.” Our goal is to help districts/school sites move beyond school improvement toward building capacity for sustainable transformative change to meet the needs of a rapidly changing student demographic.
Praxis Lead Equity Consulting consists of certified Culturally Proficient P-16 educational consultants with leadership, administrative, and teaching experience in primary, secondary, and higher education. Using Transformative leadership theory and the conceptual framework for culturally proficient practices developed by the Center for Culturally Proficient Educational Practice (CCPEP), consultants synthesize theory and practical application with a focus on building capacity for sustaining equity and access initiatives for change.

“Any student who emerges into our culturally diverse society speaking only one language with a mono-cultural perspective on the world can legitimately be considered educationally ill-prepared.”

Nieto, 2004

“Cultural Proficiency is an inside-out approach to the issues that emerge in a diverse environment.”

Lindsey et al, 2019

Upcoming Events

Transformative Leadership & Equity Institute coming Fall 2026

Our Blogs

Article: From Theory to Practice

A theoretical paper from Dr. Jaime Welborn exploring the application of the Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency in the strategic planning process for school districts.

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Get In Touch

Please contact us directly if you would like to inquire about our services or would like to give us feedback.

Phone

(805) 610-5107

Email

info@praxisleadequity.com

Location

1130 East Clark Ave., Ste. 150, Orcutt, CA 93455

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