Author Description

Learn how to transform your organizational culture and improve student outcomes by executing initiatives through an equity lens. Author Kim Wallace offers leaders a practical course of action to amplify opportunities and diminish systemic barriers for historically marginalized students. The ten-stage process, introduced in Wallace's book Leading the Launch, helps educators successfully integrate equity-centered implementations in their schools and districts. This book will help educational leaders and administrators: Seamlessly implement new equity-centered initiatives in their own organization Improve academic, social-emotional, and developmental outcomes for historically marginalized student groups Address and eliminate unproductive or harmful practices that impede transformational change Learn approaches and gain tools for engaging teachers, students, parents, and other stakeholders in implementation adoptions Cultivate school and district cultures that prioritize belonging and inclusion Utilize research, scenarios, action items, and reproducible handouts to develop and implement organizational strategies that equitably support diverse groups of students and families Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Barriers to Equity Chapter 2: Initial Stages Chapter 3: Trial Stages Chapter 4: Decision Stage Chapter 5: Execution Stages Chapter 6: Making Space Epilogue