Trudy Tuttle Arriaga

Your take-action guide to gender equity First, just to be clear: Leading While Female is not a book about how to get a leadership job. Nor is it about fixing or transforming women into male managers or mindsets. Instead, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey’s bigger ambition is to help both women and men educational leaders confront and close the gender equity gap—a gap that currently denies highly qualified women and women of color opportunities to better serve our millions of public school students. Designed as both a personal and group discussion guide for taking action, Leading While Female draws on the research of feminism, intersectionality, educational leadership, and Cultural Proficiency to help us all: Better understand the impact of faux narratives that foster lack of confidence among girls and womenUtilize the Tools of Cultural Proficiency to examine barriers to overcome and support functions to locate for your own career planningLearn from the stories of women leaders who have confronted and overcome barriers to career development, including women of color who were targets of implicit biasExplore and expand the roles and opportunities for our male colleagues to serve as allies, advocates, and mentors. If we look at the data, we can safely say women are doing the work of classroom teaching while disproportionately, men are making administrative and leadership decisions. Here at last is a resource for the breaking down the barriers and leading the way for future generations of women leaders.

Close the gender equity gap with powerful mentoring relationships According to a recent report, women earned 73% of doctorates in education, but only hold one-third of the school superintendent’s jobs in the United States. At the current pace of change, it will take almost 30 years before there are as many women serving as superintendents as men. Trudy T. Arriaga, Stacie L. Stanley, and Delores B. Lindsey introduce a new model for creating mentoring relationships that help emerging women leaders thrive. Current and aspiring leaders can use Mentoring for Momentum as a standalone resource or in conjunction with the authors’ Leading While Female and My Leading While Female Journey. Leaders will learn to mentor aspiring female leaders, and mentees will discover how to build these vital connections. Using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency, the authors guide readers in identifying and overcoming systemic barriers, helping aspiring leaders build the momentum needed to achieve their career goals and foster greater gender equity in their organizations. This practical guide includes: A framework for using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency to develop reciprocal and culturally responsive mentoring relationships Case stories from female leaders that offer models for navigating the challenges and opportunities of mentorship Guidance on how to locate a mentor, serve as a mentor, and establish effective mentoring programs within your organization Reflective prompts, end-of-chapter questions, and a free study guide to deepen understanding and encourage personal and professional growth Female leaders will learn how to leverage the power of mentorship to break through barriers, build supportive networks, and create lasting change for themselves and for the next generation of women leaders.

Women leaders explore personal and professional growth through reflection and story Leading While Female means working with female and male colleagues who are grounded in values for equity to confront and close the gender equity gap. This guided reflection is both a stand-alone book and a companion to the bestselling Leading While Female: A Culturally Proficient Response to Gender Equity. Combining the first-hand experiences of female leaders with research on feminism, intersectionality, and leadership, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindseysupport readers to explore their personal and professional cultural proficiencies. Readers will find: support to identify barriers and formulate methods to overcome them,opportunities to record their experiences following a narrative protocol for their Stormy First Draft (SFD), a writing experience derived from nine chapters of guided reflective journal entries,leadership stories and figures to provide guidance and illustrate the need for gender equity, andopportunities for males who are mentors and allies to dismantle gender bias. Data show women are doing the work of classroom teaching while disproportionately, men are making leadership decisions. This interactive resource supports women leaders to interrupt current dominant narratives with their own stories of challenges and success.

See how one school district made cultural proficiency real—and how you can too! This book tells the story of Ventura Unified School District's successful implementation of cultural proficiency, which opened long-closed doors for marginalized students and returned gains on every key success metric. Most importantly, it will empower you to do the same for your school or district. Resources include: A method for evaluating the impact of educational decisions on students' access to learningA clearly outlined three-year implementation plan for making your school culturally proficientA content-rich companion website that includes templates and forms for implementing the book’s suggestions