Francesca A. López – författare

Leadership for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Schools explores how schools can cultivate students’ linguistic and cultural proficiencies, provide students with a rich and challenging learning environment, and ensure that students are socioculturally integrated. Containing special features such as Storyboxes to detail specific cases of how school leaders put theory into practice, and integrated exercises to provide launching points for critical dialogue and help readers make connections to their own contexts, this book brings together research from the field of bilingual education and school improvement to provide a strong theoretical and research framework as well as best practices for supporting all students. Authors Scanlan and López provide aspiring and practicing leaders the guidance to lead, organize, and support their schools to effectively serve linguistically and culturally diverse students.A Companion Website includes exercises from the book available for download and modification and a blog focused on emerging research and effective practices.

Leadership for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Schools explores how schools can cultivate students’ linguistic and cultural proficiencies, provide students with a rich and challenging learning environment, and ensure that students are socioculturally integrated. Containing special features such as Storyboxes to detail specific cases of how school leaders put theory into practice, and integrated exercises to provide launching points for critical dialogue and help readers make connections to their own contexts, this book brings together research from the field of bilingual education and school improvement to provide a strong theoretical and research framework as well as best practices for supporting all students. Authors Scanlan and López provide aspiring and practicing leaders the guidance to lead, organize, and support their schools to effectively serve linguistically and culturally diverse students.A Companion Website includes exercises from the book available for download and modification and a blog focused on emerging research and effective practices.

Handbook of Race, Equity, and Asset-Based Research in Educational Psychology offers a profound vision of contemporary educational psychology scholarship, practice, policy, teaching, and research design that is both informed by and empowering of social justice.Despite the ubiquity of educational psychology’s body of knowledge, the discipline has long neglected the academic success, well-being, and other outcomes of historically and systemically marginalized learners and research partners, and the field remains complicit in imposing normative standards and social stratification across diverse populations. This expansive and rigorous volume charts a new course in educational psychology that supports equity-focused research agendas, refined theoretical syntheses, and meaningful attention to the complexities of race, culture, and class. Each chapter vividly contextualizes critical approaches to theory, methodology, philosophy, pedagogy, and other topics, including the direct integration of decolonial, socioecological, translingual, trauma-informed, and community-engaged praxis.This book’s substantive and deeply considered contributions constitute a significant scholarly reckoning with the exclusionary hierarchies that pervade the field today and an exciting articulation of its future.

Handbook of Race, Equity, and Asset-Based Research in Educational Psychology offers a profound vision of contemporary educational psychology scholarship, practice, policy, teaching, and research design that is both informed by and empowering of social justice.Despite the ubiquity of educational psychology’s body of knowledge, the discipline has long neglected the academic success, well-being, and other outcomes of historically and systemically marginalized learners and research partners, and the field remains complicit in imposing normative standards and social stratification across diverse populations. This expansive and rigorous volume charts a new course in educational psychology that supports equity-focused research agendas, refined theoretical syntheses, and meaningful attention to the complexities of race, culture, and class. Each chapter vividly contextualizes critical approaches to theory, methodology, philosophy, pedagogy, and other topics, including the direct integration of decolonial, socioecological, translingual, trauma-informed, and community-engaged praxis.This book’s substantive and deeply considered contributions constitute a significant scholarly reckoning with the exclusionary hierarchies that pervade the field today and an exciting articulation of its future.

Asset Pedagogies in Latino Youth Identity and Achievement explores the theory, research, and application of asset-based pedagogies to counter approaches that fail to challenge deficit views of youth. Presenting details on the role of teachers’ knowledge about students’ language and culture as strengths as opposed to deficiencies, Francesca A. López connects classroom practices to positive outcomes, preparing teachers to use asset pedagogies to promote academic achievement and implement asset-based teaching practices. Making thorough use of examples from research both in and out of the classroom and concluding with concrete applications from experienced educators, this book provides future teachers with a critical understanding of how to support Latino youth.