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A revolutionary framework for preservice teacher learning centered on justice-focused coaching that encourages culturally responsive practice and disrupts systems of oppression. In Coaching in Communities, researcher Melissa Mosley Wetzel, along with her coauthors, distills the lessons of an eight-year study into a transformative educator training model, Coaching with CARE (an acronym for critical and content-focused, appreciative, reflective, and experiential). She demonstrates how effective, contextual teacher training can be a cornerstone of educational justice, which occurs when all learners are supported to be successful in school and when schools expand notions of success to include diverse ways of life and learning. Wetzel shows how this new framework, which draws from behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and critical models of coaching, can be used in professional and informal learning contexts, and in dialogue with families and communities, to upend the status quo, break down the expert-novice distinction, and cultivate just forms of practice. As Wetzel notes, the work of justice is collaborative, sustained engagement in resistance to marginalization, racism, and other inequities. Coaching in Communities presents a set of tools, including shared inquiry and coaching cycles of observation, reflection, and debriefing, and demonstrates how they work in real-life settings. With these tools, teacher education programs as well as districts, schools, and other organizations can train for change, which is one essential step in school transformation.

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"""In this groundbreaking book, the authors offer a powerful new approach to coaching teachers that is collaborative, inquiry-driven, and rooted in social justice. Drawing on the strengths of teachers and centering hope and possibility, they advocate for teacher agency in working toward transformative pedagogies that meet the needs of all students. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to create more equitable and inclusive learning environments."" --Detra Price-Dennis, professor of teaching and learning and director of digital education and innovation in teaching and learning, The Ohio State University ""This is a wonderfully accessible book filled with practical advice for educators and educational coaches. The 'Coaching with CARE' approach provides readers with the tools to disrupt traditional roles of experts and novices and center issues of justice while connecting with the community. With a focus on empathy and inquiry, readers will develop critical competencies to fruitfully engage in coaching relationships."" --Elizabeth Soslau, professor of education, University of Delaware, and author of The Comprehensive Guide to Working with Student Teachers"

“This is a wonderfully accessible book filled with practical advice for educators and educational coaches. The ‘Coaching with CARE’ approach provides readers with the tools to disrupt traditional roles of experts and novices and center issues of justice while connecting with the community. With a focus on empathy and inquiry, readers will develop critical competencies to fruitfully engage in coaching relationships.”—Elizabeth Soslau, professor of education, University of Delaware, and author of The Comprehensive Guide to Working with Student Teachers “In this groundbreaking book, the authors offer a powerful new approach to coaching teachers that is collaborative, inquiry-driven, and rooted in social justice. Drawing on the strengths of teachers and centering hope and possibility, they advocate for teacher agency in working toward transformative pedagogies that meet the needs of all students. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to create more equitable and inclusive learning environments.”—Detra Price-Dennis, professor of teaching and learning and director of digital education and innovation in teaching and learning, The Ohio State University

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Melissa Mosley Wetzel is professor and department chair of language and literacy studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. Erica Holyoke is an assistant professor of responsive literacy education in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver. Kerry H. Alexander, Heather Dunham, and Claire Collins are doctoral candidates in language and literacy studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin.

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