Empowering Leaders With Cultural Proficiency

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.