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This article reports a Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings.
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Abstract: This case study reports one Texas suburban school district’s efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings and explores how and in what ways this may or may not have improved school leaders’ understanding of Islam. Terrell and Lindsey’s (2009) conceptual framework of Leadership and the Cultural Proficiency Continuum guided the inquiry, which was comprised of constructs that span from culturally destructive to proficient. Data collection included semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and documents. The analysis of data revealed that the cultural proficiency trainings did and did not influence the cultural proficiency of educators working in the district.
This is the author manuscript version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Religion & Education. Copyright 2015 Taylor & Francis. The final definitive version is available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15507394.2015.1013408
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Ezzani, Miriam & Brooks, Melanie C.(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District,
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