Elena Aguilar - Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 5
5. Chapter 6
6. Chapter 10
7. Chapter 12

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 5
5. Chapter 6
6. Chapter 7
7. Chapter 9
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11
10. Chapter 12

This book is for every teacher leader, coach, and educational practitioner who seeks to interrupt educational inequities. Elena shares her vulnerability and insights, embraces the power of emotions, and deepens our understanding so we can expand our skillsetshelping us to put relationships before tasks and keep equity at the core.

Tamisha Williams, Dean of Adult Equity & Inclusion, Lick-Wilmerding High School

Coaching for Equity is an extremely accessible and terrifically useful book for educators at all levels. Elena's authentic and caring voice comes through as she combines personal narrative seamlessly with concrete strategy to help all readers develop their conversational skills around issues of inequity. I recommend her books again and again.

Jennifer Abrams, Communications Consultant, and author of Having Hard Conversations and Swimming in the Deep End

Finally! a unique and deeply needed guide to creating equity and shifting hearts, minds, and classrooms using tools of compassion and curiosity instead of tools of force, superiority, and judgment.

laura brewer, How To Make Love

Elena insightfully offers leaders the essential mindsets, practice frameworks, and explicit tools to create equitable school conditions for every student, every day. This book should be essential reading for all school leaders committed to ensuring that students reach their full potential and that schools deliver on their promise to disrupt barriers that disproportionately and negatively impact the academic and socio-emotional experiences of black and brown students.

Alexandrea Creer Kahn, former Chief Academic Officer at Leadership Public Schools, and co-author of Identity Safe Classrooms: Pathways to Belonging and Learning

Coaching for Equity: Conversations that Change Practice takes the courageous step of explicitly naming and addressing the social, political, and historical nature of white supremacy and colonialism in American schooling. I've had the privilege of learning from Elena over the last eight years, and her brilliance in coaching radiates in person and on the pages. Read and study this text to develop your praxis and your commitment to justice and liberatory education.

Javier Cabra Walteros, Chief Academic Officer at Envision Education

Finally! Elena Aguilar's Coaching for Equity is an accessible guidebook that pushes us beyond platitudes of equity to the essential ground of creating complex learning environments that demonstrateevery daywhat it takes for all children to receive the educational experiences they deserve. Coaching for Equity is for all of us who have been hungry for guidance about how to gather our people, get past our fragility, and journey towards justice and liberation as we work in service to all children.

Kimberly N. Parker, Ph.D., Shady Hill School, and co-founder of #DisruptTexts

Elena Aguilar, once again, delivers an illuminating resource for educators. Through personal experiences, a historical perspective, proven educational methods, and clear direction, teacher leaders will gain tools and strategies necessary for doing the challenging yet essential work of transforming their schools into welcoming, inclusive, and equitable environments for learning. I certainly did.

Ellen Shulman, Principal, Minneapolis Public Schools

Elena Aguilar writes, leads, and coaches from compassion, curiosity, and a deep commitment to honest conversations about systemic inequities. In this book, Aguilar provides clear, actionable, and compassionate tools and resources to ensure that every single child has access to an equitable education.

Kendra Lee, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Learning for Comcast

Elena Aguilar writes with a humility and power that pulls you in like a warm, engrossing fire. She has a way of unapologetically telling the truth while also meeting you where you are with profound respect for your journey as an educator at any point in your career and as a complete human being. Coaching for Equity: Conversations that Change Practice is a book of wisdom that can only be birthed after decades of firsthand experience and deep reflections on making the unconscious conscious in order to have educational equity for every child, every day.

Daisy Han, CEO of Embracing Equity

I believe a majority of people want to create and contribute to a more equitable society, and we are too often frozen in our good intentions because we cannot address inequities we do not see, we don't know how to address the inequities we do see, we fear the pain of the process, and we fear the potential to do more harm. Elena Aguilar offers us a road map to activate our agency and begin the work of dismantling the systems of oppression that hurt us all. She offers a set of tools to begin building the healing human connections we crave.

Grace Losada, EdD, leadership coach, and former vice president of Fusion Education

Elena has a brilliant approach to providing practical tools, methods, and strategies to examine the behaviors of educators that contribute to creating and sustaining an equitable educational experience that every student, regardless of identity and lifestyle, deserves. As teachers and educational leaders look to refine our practices to best meet the needs of all our students, we will benefit from Coaching for Equity by thinking about things in ways that we should have all along.

Dr. Trina Moore-Southall, Director of Equity and Inclusion, Brentwood School, Los Angeles

Elena Aguilar has built a compelling equity-coaching model. Her transformational approach evolves from her core values and 30 years of coaching and experience with diverse cultures. Through storytelling, she presents strategies that support systemic change; she offers implementation guidelines and tools. Coaching for Equity is a timely, professional resource that supports an invaluable approach.

Virginia McHugh Goodwin, Wildflower Foundation Coach

As we long to re-imagine schooling during our time of worldwide trauma, Elena Aguilar brings her expertise about emotional resilience and helps us craft the skillful conversations needed to create equitable classrooms, schools, and districts that honor the needs of all the learners, both children and adults. This book will refill your reservoir of hope; it will provide you with the blueprint for building an environment where compassion and academic excellence go hand-in-hand.

Cheryl Beeson, retired school and district administrator

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