This book provides equity leaders with the requisite knowledge, skills, and dispositions for facilitating Cultural Proficiency. It includes a powerful, running vignette that illustrates common challenges, principles, and practical solutions and focuses on mental models for managing group energy. Grounded in a systems model for personal and organizational transformation, the book provides facilitators with a range of tools for planning culturally proficient professional learning experiences.
About the Author
John Krownapple specializes in raising the cross-cultural effectiveness of clients. Since 2005, he has facilitated cultural proficiency for groups. Since 2007, he has led the development and implementation of one the first and most comprehensive cultural proficiency programs in the United States. John continues to administer this program for the Howard County Public School System (MD) in his role of Coordinator for Cultural Proficiency. John brings a decade's worth of successful culturally proficient facilitation experience to this project. He has used the cultural proficiency framework with school system staff groups, system partners, community leaders, government officials, students, and families.
Results of Mr. Krownapple's professional and organizational development leadership include: Increased cultural competence of staff - Seminar participants reported statistically significant positive increases in cultural competence. (HCPSS BTE 2010 Master Plan Annual Update, p.167) Innovations that facilitate cultural proficiency - Krownapple led the development of numerous rubrics to guide systemic improvement of practices and policies. (HCPSS BTE 2013 Master Plan Annual Update, p.256) Documented improvements in practice and policy - School system, local government, and community leaders and staff members used rubrics and mentoring to shift practices into alignment with standards of cultural competence.
(Progress Report on the HCPSS Strategic Plan, May 2014, p. 59) As an educator for two decades, John has served as a district office administrator, professional development facilitator, curriculum specialist, and elementary teacher. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and McDaniel College and a consultant for several not-for-profit organizations."
