Description
Book SynopsisAfter working in the field of early childhood education extensively, Jill McFarren Aviles and Erika Flores concluded that coaching educators from a holistic, culturally responsive, and strength-based perspective are three of the most powerful tools that will enhance the lives of young children and their families and contribute to equity in early childhood settings.
Hear All Voices offers a culturally responsive framework that supports educators in understanding the importance of equity in their interactions with children and families. The framework focuses on implementing practical strategies that can help increase equity in early education through day-to-day interactions. Written as a guidebook to support early childhood coaches to get inspiration, knowledge, and tools as they guide teachers from diverse backgrounds in early childhood settings. This book weaves together the latest in the science of change, brain development, adult learning, and practical “how-to” to transfer this into practice.
Trade Review“This timely book offers coaches a mindful and respectful transformational journey to understand and embrace culturally responsive coaching. Every coach will benefit from the strategies and adopting the reflective habit to contemplate the multitude of areas and layers of topics they pose about how both our own and our client’s beliefs, values, and practices impact our behaviors. I was grateful for the conversational tone, the stretching of my perspectives and the powerful impact on my own coaching!” — Constant Hine, president/principal consultant, Horizons In Learning, LLC, author of 'Transformational Coaching for Early Childhood Educators'.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Cultural responsiveness - why and how is it a key ingredient for sustainable change
- Chapter 2: Reflecting and affirming your personal and professional story – What you bring to the table as a coach?
- Chapter 3: Listening and affirming the client's story - What does the client bring to the table?
- Chapter 4: Responding to diverse settings – Why and how to take a systems approach to coaching in different context/settings and age groups?
- Chapter 5: Putting the pieces together - How does your coaching support cultural responsiveness and equity?
- Chapter 6: Data as a tool for sustainable change – how to cultivate a culturally responsive lens to understand and use data?
- Chapter 7: Building resilience through a culturally responsive approach – what is resilience and how it is fostered through a culturally responsive coaching process
- Chapter 8: Continuing the journey
- Appendices
- References
