Facilitator Bios
Prework
Reading
Standard of Excellence for School Leadership
School Walkthrough Tool - Counternarrative Examination
Intellectual Tradition and Legacy
Framework: Asset Pedagogies as defined by Dr. Francesca López
Think and Make Meaning: As you read these frameworks, consider:
What is the core argument or idea that each author advances? What need or gap does she seek to address in the research?
What implications for practice in schools does this research have?
In what ways are the frameworks resonant or dissonant with one another? What practices are overlapping? Distinct?
Read: Asset Pedagogies in Latino Youth Identity and Achievement - Nurturing Confianza by Francesca A. López - Introduction, Chapters 4-6
Think and Make Meaning: After grappling with the frameworks themselves, read or watch the examples provided of those ideas in action and consider:
To what extent and in what ways is this an example of the framework (Culture of Achievement or Asset Pedagogies)?
What beliefs and/or practices contributed to the example?
Which indicators are evident in the example?
Examples of Asset Pedagogies
Read: Asset Pedagogies in Latino Youth Identity and Achievement - Nurturing Confianza
Ch 7 - Decolonizing Chican@ Studies to Rehumanize Xican@ Youth through Indigenous Pedagogies
Ch 8 - A Counter Narrative: A Pedagogy of Love Through Critical Race Theory
Ch 9 - Culturally Responsive Practices in K-5 Classrooms
Ch 10 - On Becoming Human in White Skin
Ch 11 - Chicanismo and Carnalismo: An Asset-Based Curriculum and Pedagogy
Watch: Precious Knowledge
Mindframes: Leadership for Equity in Schools