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Cultural Proficiency Of High School Leaders In Relation To English Learners And Their Families In An Urban School District, Johanna Fawcett
Cultural Proficiency Of High School Leaders In Relation To English Learners And Their Families In An Urban School District, Johanna Fawcett
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the cultural proficiency of school leaders in addressing the needs of English learners (ELs) and their families at a public, urban, grades 9 through 12 high school in Massachusetts, a Level 3 school in a Level 3 district with an achievement gap for ELs. The ELs and their families represented one-fourth of the high school’s student population; the school was located in a linguistically and culturally diverse community. The participants for this study were the 16 educational leaders of this high school. Three research questions guided this study: (a) To what …