EDAS615 The Culturally Proficient Leader: Building Diverse, Inclusive Learning Communities
Educational leaders face a society where continual and rapid change is the norm, where communities, staff, and student bodies are increasingly diverse in race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, family structure, and learning styles to name a few. At the same time, long-standing barriers of racism and other forms of oppression remain in embedded ways and create unequal outcomes for students and staff. This environment calls on educational leaders to better understand the multicultural and layered reality of all, especially children and youth, to become more self-aware and culturally proficient, and to use their leadership to inspire and share models for change that removes systemic obstacles and facilitates growth and achievement for all. In this world, a necessary prerequisite for success is being able to assume resilient, moral and culturally proficient leadership