Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap: Liberating Mindsets to Effect Change (Reduce Inequality in Education and Examine the Schools Roles in Superiority and Victim Mindsets) (Classroom Strategies) - Softcover

Anthony Muhammad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936763273 ISBN 13: 9781936763276

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2015

Synopsis

Ensure learning equality in every classroom so that factors such as economic standing and race don t play a role in determining students achievement. Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from cultural attitudes that reinforce negative academic performance expectations.

Benefits

Delve into the factors that impact achievement inequality.

Consider the importance of mindsets and frameworks related to the achievement gap, including how impartiality is missing from struggling students school experiences, especially for poor and minority students.

Discover real-world case studies from three schools that have achieved great results from embracing principles of the liberation mindset.

Examine the indicators that can help you assess whether your school has fostered the values of responsibility, advocacy, and equality.

Utilize diagnostic surveys and rubrics for assessment and decision making.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The History Behind the Achievement Gap
Chapter 2: A Practical Commitment to Equality
Chapter 3: Mindset and Cultural Change
Chapter 4: The Superiority Mindset
Chapter 5: The Victim Mindset
Chapter 6: The Liberation Mindset
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Muhammad, PhD, is a much sought-after educational consultant. A practitioner for nearly twenty years, he has served as a middle school teacher, assistant principal, and principal and as a high school principal. His Transforming School Culture approach explores the root causes of staff resistance to change.

Anthony's tenure as a practitioner has earned him several awards as both a teacher and a principal. His most notable accomplishment came as principal of Levey Middle School in Southfield, Michigan, a National School of Excellence, where student proficiency on state assessments more than doubled in five years. Anthony and the staff at Levey used the Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM process for school improvement, and they have been recognized in several videos and articles as a model high-performing PLC.

As a researcher, Anthony has published articles in several publications in both the United States and Canada. He is author of Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division and The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level and a contributor to The Collaborative Administrator.

Review:

Anthony Muhammad has hereby entered the ongoing debate in America about the compatibility of equity, excellence, and meritocracy in the nation s quest to eradicate achievement gaps. Whatever your perspective on the issues, this book will help you understand the glaring need for a national change of mindset. It s a worthwhile read! --Ronald F. Ferguson, Faculty Director, Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University

Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap is a revolutionary must-read that challenges educators at all levels to not only view inequity in schools through a critical lens but take actions, boldly declaring that education as usual is no longer acceptable for any student. --Tonya C. Adair, Principal Instructional Leader, Washington High School of Information Technology, Milwaukee Public Schools

For most, closing the achievement gap is simplistically addressed by the singular mindset of increasing standardized test scores. Through this provocative text, Anthony Muhammad teaches us that to truly close the achievement gap requires liberation with complexity. --Sharroky Hollie, Executive Director, Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1936763273
• ISBN 13: 9781936763276
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 168