Opening Doors

Dr. Trudy T. Arriaga served the Ventura Unified School District for 14 years as the first female superintendent.  She began her career as a trilingual paraeducator and enjoyed 40 years of service in education as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, director, superintendent and university instructor at all levels.  Trudy retired as superintendent in July 2015 and was honored by the naming of the VUSD District Office, The VUSD Trudy Tuttle Arriaga Education Service Center.  She recently retired from Cal Lutheran University as a faculty member in the Educational Leadership Department in the Graduate School of Education.  Trudy is the co-author, with her esteemed colleague Dr. Randall B. Lindsey of Opening Doors: An Implementation Template for Cultural Proficiency, which delivers a compelling account on how leaders can create and expand cultures of inclusion and equity by dismantling and crafting new organizational policies and practices on behalf of the students they serve.  Her second book, “Leading While Female:  A Culturally Proficient Response to Gender Equity” and co-authored with Dr. Delores Lindsey and Dr. Stacie Stanley offers a counter narrative and strategies to overcome the barriers of women in educational leadership, followed by the companion journal, “My Leading While Female Journal”.  It has been her privilege to assist educational districts, institutions and organizations throughout the United States through keynote speeches, workshops, leadership and equity institutes and online professional development to align the actions of the organization with their stated values and principles in their effort to build a culturally proficient and inclusive organization for each and every one.   Trudy and her husband, Raymundo, are enjoying this grand chapter of life as grandparents to Rayo Mana and Sofia Anuhea.  Trudy can be contacted at trudyarriaga73@gmail.comRandall B. Lindsey is Emeritus Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He has served as a teacher, an administrator, executive director of a non-profit corporation, as Interim Dean at California Lutheran University, as Distinguished Educator in Residence at Pepperdine University, and as Chair of the Education Department at the University of Redlands. All of Randy’s experiences have been in working with diverse populations and his area of study is the behavior of white people in multicultural settings. His Ph.D. is in Educational Leadership from Georgia State University, his Master of Arts in Teaching is in History Education from the University of Illinois, and his B.S. in Social Science Education is from Western Illinois University. He has served as a junior high school and high school teacher and as an administrator in charge of school desegregation efforts. At Cal State, L.A. he served as Chair of the Division of Administration and Counseling and as Director of the Regional Assistance Centers for Educational Equity, a regional race desegregation assistance center. With co-authors he has written several books and articles on applying the Cultural Proficiency Framework in various contexts.Email – randallblindsey@gmail.comWebsite - CCPEP.orgTwitter - @RBLindsey41

This powerfully insightful and thought provoking book, takes us on a journey to culturally proficient actions.

• DedicationAcknowledgmentPublisher′s AcknowledgmentsForewordAbout the AuthorsPrologueChapter 1 – What Frames Us, Defines UsGetting CenteredGoing DeeperChapter 2 - Culturally Proficient Leadership Fosters Transformative ChangeGetting CenteredGoing DeeperChapter 3 – Change Begins with Core Value and Belief StatementsGetting CenteredGoing DeeperActivity 3.1 – Can You Believe?Activity 3.2 – Walking Forward Part IChapter 4 – Yes, We Actually Live Our ValuesGetting CenteredGoing DeeperActivity 4.1 – Walking Forward Part IIActivity 4.2 – I Am ActivityChapter 5 – Continuous Learning Involves Deconstructing our LearningGetting CenteredGoing DeeperActivity 5.1 - The Power of UsActivity 5.2 – Opening Doors for Students – Do Our Actions Reflect Our Values? Part 1Activity 5.3 – Opening Doors for Students – To What Extent are We Escorting Students Through the Doors? Part 2Activity 5.4 – Data that Demonstrates Areas of NeedActivity 5.5 – Book ClubEpilogueResourcesResource A – Book Study GuideResource B - Cultural Proficiency Books’ Essential QuestionsResource C – 3-Year Implementation JourneyResource D – A Cultural Proficiency Implementation ModelReferences