Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Elena Aguilar (Author), Joana Garcia (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

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If we hope to interrupt educational inequities and create schools in which every child thrives, we must open our hearts to purposeful conversation and hone our skills to make those conversations effective. With characteristic honesty and wisdom, Elena Aguilar inspires us to commit to transforming our classrooms, lays bare the hidden obstacles to equity, and helps us see how to overcome these obstacles, one conversation at a time.

Coaching for Equity is packed with the resources necessary to implement transformational coaching in any organization. In addition to an updated coaching framework and corresponding rubrics, a comprehensive set of coaching tools puts success in every coach's hands. Extensive personal narratives demonstrate what coaching for equity looks like and help us see how we can make every conversation count toward building a more just and equitable world.

Coaching for Equity covers critical topics in the larger conversation about racial equity and helps listeners develop the knowledge, dispositions, and skills to be able to: talk productively about race; build trust to support vulnerability; unpack mental models and change someone's mind; observe classrooms and collect data to support equitable outcomes; inspire others and deepen commitment; and evaluate and celebrate growth.

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16 hours and 59 minutes
Author

Elena Aguilar
Narrator

Joana Garcia
Audible release date

Jan. 26 2021
Language

English
Publisher

Tantor Audio
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B08T1P6WJC
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	15 hours and 59 minutes
Author	Elena Aguilar
Narrator	Joana Garcia
Audible.ca Release Date	January 26 2021
Publisher	Tantor Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08T1P6WJC
Best Sellers Rank	#29,812 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #68 in Inclusive Education Methods #149 in Education Administration (Books) #254 in Education (Audible Books & Originals)

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Christine A

Best Coaching Book yet

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 5, 2021

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I really appreciate Elena Aguilar's storytelling and writing style. I read this book at the right time for the work we were doing. It was practical and easily applicable to my work. Highly recommend this book!

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Alison McCallum

An important book for all teachers

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 10, 2020

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Elena's storytelling makes this a pleasure to read, even with her tough reflection questions and thoughtful prompts. She writes with such compassion, conviction, and purpose, and inspires the reader to take action in every conversation. It should be mandatory reading for all educators, and all human beings. She provides a road map for how to do better.

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Mike

Powerful!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 5, 2020

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A book that sparks emotions means it has a powerful impact. Working now to implement the ideas put forward in this game changing book.

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Rose

It is coaching in real sense

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 31, 2022

A very good book with scenarios to coach and a thoughtful approach. 5 stars!!

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B. Woof

Classroom and school ready equity strategies for education sector coaches

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 7, 2021

I very much appreciated this book with its sustained coaching metaphor of a bridge. The image of the coach and coaches traveling together towards the coachee’s preferred destination is something that I will tuck away in the depths of my practice. I highly recommend this book for its practical applications to instructional and equitable excellence in classrooms. As a high school Principal in Ontario, Canada, there are many connections to my ongoing work.

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Susan Chapman

Invaluable guide to disrupting patterns of inequity

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2020

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Elena Aguilar has given instructional coaches and the education world an incredible gift in her newest book. Exercises help readers begin the journey of examining our own mindsets toward race and how these mindsets can make white privilege and racism invisible. Aguilar cautions that learning about to recognize racism is a lifelong learning journey. She explains that wherever we are in our equity learning journey, we can and must work deliberately to strengthen our eyesight for patterns of inequity and our toolkit for disrupting these patterns. Aguilar argues that it is critical for coaches to do this hard and uncomfortable internal work if they are to be effective in coaching for equity. She states bluntly that those of us who have grown up with white privilege have much learning to do and tells us: “Remember: It’s not your fault that things are the way they are, but it is your responsibility to do something about them” (p. 21).

According to Aguilar, coaching is an effective vehicle for building equitable schools because teaching in ways that disrupt patterns of inequity requires learning, and coaching is a structure that supports teacher learning. She states that coaches should have coaching conversations about equity as frequently as possible and says, “Coaching for equity requires that we manage our discomfort around discussing race and class and identity differences. As we normalize these conversations, we normalize discomfort, which makes these conversations more comfortable” (p. 207).

Aguilar tells two extended coaching stories to illustrate how coaching for equity looks and sounds. She shows us how, when we coach for equity, we must coach for both behavior and belief change simultaneously. Coaching for belief change builds teachers’ capacity to think and act from an equity mindset in novel situations they will face when the coach is out of the picture. Coaching for behavior change builds self-efficacy and agency.

Aguilar demonstrates that equity-focused coaching requires that we navigate emotions; this is new but necessary territory for many coaches and teachers. She includes helpful supports for recognizing and engaging with emotions that are likely to surface in coaching conversations related to equity. Aguilar shows how addressing emotions is critical to altering racist beliefs and building empathy. She explains, “Systems of oppression rely on us disconnecting from our own emotions (including guilt or regret) so that we don’t feel the emotions of other people” (p. 193).

The practical strategies and tools offered throughout the book (e.g., What to Say When You Hear Racist Comments; Responding to Resistance) will be much appreciated by coaches as they engage in the important work of promoting equity in classrooms and schools. Appendices offer even more tools including a comprehensive equity rubric and an extensive list of resources for learning more.

Aguilar is candid about the difficulty of the work ahead of us, but she also helps us see why this work is critical. “Schools,” she states, “can be places of healing and liberation. They can be a microcosm for a more just and equitable society, a place where adults and children learn to be together in healthy community, a place where we learn about ourselves and others” (p. 27). I know already I will reach for this book again and again for guidance and inspiration in my own learning journey and my support of others.

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Anthony Conty

Worth It, Even When You Don't Agree

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2022

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"Coaching for Equity: Conversations that Change Practice" by Elena Aguilar is a maddening book as some parts made me emotional with recognition and regret while others parts make assumptions and miss the mark.

That said, as an Educational Coach, Elena says to make 5 positive comments for every negative, so I will do the same.

1) Anyone who has received coaching or started teaching would want a coach like Elena, making you look inward and find answers for yourself.

2) I agree that teachers have implicit bias and the use of video with her clients helps everyone recognize that.

3) You can relate to her clients and root for them. They remind you that we are all still growing and learning.

4) Coaching for Equity is a great concept because we make sure that we do not let any kids slip through the cracks.

5) Her adult learners get defensive and sad, as new teachers do, but Elena uses that to her advantage. She also knows when emotions reach outside of her purview into a therapist's territory.

6) There are a ton of typos in this book, none that interfere with comprehension, but enough that it will distract frequent readers that are used to heavy editing. There are probably typos in this post, but I am not getting paid

7) As a teacher, I will now acknowledge how things are making me feel and that should help with how I react. Why do I flip out on kids and from where does the frustration originate?

8) Acknowledging identity shows you who you want to be as a teacher and why. Recognizing your identity will give you the skills to know who your students truly are.

9) My first mentor always led with questions and it shows me how good I had it. If you focus on you, the kids get on your nerves less and you feel equipped for anything.

10) When I was a younger, better teacher, I asked kids for feedback. Aguilar shows you how powerful this tool is and inspires you to do it again.

11) I now understand the importance of restorative practices and recognize their benefits to both students and teachers.

12) The book focuses so much of what is wrong that it doesn't tell you how to prevent problems proactively. For example, how to we decrease suspensions and keep a safe school? I agree that suspensions don't work, but what does? Aguilar explains this by telling you to read one of her other books, which is a quick way to assure that I will not read your other books. Also, her impression of SROs leading the school to prison pipeline fails to see how the presence of officers can increase trust in the police force.

4 people found this helpful

Cindy Reed

An Essential Resource for Shifting Mindsets and Oppressive Systems in Organizations

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2021

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As a professor and a life coach, I work with many individuals and groups. It is not uncommon, especially these past several years, to encounter people who hold low expectations and deficit mindsets and who operate in ways that foster inequities. Coaching for Equity is an invaluable resource for leadership and coaching students, leaders, and educators in general. Written in an easily accessible and open manner, the book provides essential information and strategies that are presented in a compelling and compassionate way. The book invites and encourages readers to go on a journey toward equitable schools alongside Elena as she offers insights from her own experience, just enough research to support claims, strategies to use, opportunities for reflection, and additional resources for digging deeper into each area. This is an excellent resource and one that I refer to myself and recommend to others regularly.

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Miss B.

A Call for Practical Powerful Change

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2021

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The thing I love most about Aguilar’s text is her approach to supporting coaches. She always identifies the problems that impede on student achievement- through anecdotes and scenarios that I can relate to. Then she gets to the heart of the matter by analyzing a person’s belief system. She then gives the reader an opportunity to meet the challenge- in ways that leave both a coach and the client- in some way- transformed. Chapter 6: How to Change Someone’s Mind- really struck home with me and helped me realize that coaches and clients are both in a transforming process through this type of work. If you’re interested in a text that’s going to help you reflect on your practices, give you sentence frames for tough conversations, and help you create systems that facilitate growth and change for yourself and your clients, I believe this text is worth a read. The thought of providing equity to all children is the driving force behind this book, so if you’re not one for social change, or you don’t see how students walk into classrooms where conditions for learning are not designed for them to succeed, then this is definitely the book for you. Inequitable conditions are not just about economic status.

3 people found this helpful

Tamisha

A Coach's Best Resource!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2020

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This book is so timely for coaching right now! It's one thing to coach teachers in math, but it's quite another to be a Black coach who is coaching White teachers in math! Elena has done a phenomenal job of making herself vulnerable in order to connect with other coaches who are experiencing similar issues in their work.

It's amazing, and I think all coaches can benefit from it!

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