Engaging Students in Culturally Proficient Spaces : A Social-Emotional Pathway to Equity

With an emphasis on classroom-level practice, this book focuses on educator preparation in creating safe, welcoming schools, developing and sustaining meaningful relationships with students, and preparing students for engagement in diverse communities.

The book includes classroom instruction that benefits all students but, most significantly, culturally-and linguistically-diverse students and other marginalized groups.  In particular, it advocates explicit integration of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and the principles of Cultural Proficiency as a regular component of classroom instruction. 

The authors include a range of developmentally appropriate classroom activities geared toward elementary, middle, and high school, as well as a detailed case study (Milton High School, where co-author Ian Jones is principal) that illustrates "what it looks like" in practice.