Trust As the Core of Instructional Leadership : Protocols to Mediate Thinking, Shift Practice, and Improve Student Learning

Be visible and approachable. Unpack necessary conversations with care. Build capacity based on strengths. Author Delia E. Racines offers these powerful protocols and more to support instructional leaders in building a community of trust in which positive change can occur. All current and aspiring instructional leaders ready to work collaboratively to improve teaching and learning will value this book.

• Understand the importance of fostering trust and competence across all relationships within their school
• Utilize a wide variety of reproducibles for both team building and personal reflection
• Dive into Educator Spotlights that provide unique perspectives on chapter tools
• Strategize for effective goal setting and achievement
• Become more intentionally present as leaders

Delia E. Racines, PhD, serves as an administrator overseeing a Reading and Literacy Added Authorization program as well as a School Business Management Certificate program, an adjunct professor, and a consultant in Los Angeles, California. She has served as a principal, assistant principal, instructional coach, and teacher over the past seventeen years. Racines has built instructional coaching programs from the ground up, led various professional development initiatives, and aligned efforts with each district’s progress as professional learning communities to ensure equitable opportunities and outcomes for all students.
Racines effectively transitioned department chairs to instructional coaches through tailored modules and received Learning Forward’s prestigious Shirley Hord Learning Team Award. Racines also designs and delivers professional development and courses for matriculating MAT-TESOL students with the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education’s Office for Professional Development, Endicott College, and Teaching Matters. She received the Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Author Contribution for her research in education law and civil rights for English learners. Racines was nominated for the Association of California School Administrators’ Co-Administrator of the Year and received the Teachers Honoring Excellence Award for 2018–2019 in Los Angeles.
Racines received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Virginia Tech, a master’s degree in criminology from Radford University, and both a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction in multilingual multicultural education and a doctorate in teacher education and educational leadership from George Mason University.