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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Leadership for social justice"”.
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Historical Study of the Highlander Method: Honing Leadership for Social Justice.
<p>Waging war against economic, political and social inequity, Highlander, founded in 1932 in Monteagle, Tennessee, near Chattanooga, served as a community-training center for southern industrial labor and farmers’ unions and as a major gathering place for black and white civil rights activists, …
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Inclusive Schools for Students Served by Special Education: How Central Office Supports Principals
… will influence their ability to lead schools for social justice for students identified with disabilities.</p> <p>District leaders have a responsibility to develop and support principals to provide equitable and high-quality learning experiences for students who have been identified with …
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The leadership practices of Anglican school leaders in the Solomon Islands: leading for social justice
The political, economic, social, cultural and religious characteristics of the communities shape how school leaders undertake social justice leadership practices. Leading to address injustices which stem from these characteristics can create tensions for school leaders as they seek to serve their …
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Cultural resilience--a currency of social capital: Counteracting student marginalization in two urban--suburban high schools
… had significant ties to the district. Student informants, in particular, shared high school experiences of marginalization that included silence, rendered invisibility, stereotyping, and bias owing in large part to their racial/cultural status whether White or Black. They revealed a more powerful …
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Principals' Engagement with The Ontario Leadership Framework to Enact Social Justice Leadership: Reflection, Resistance, and Resilience
Now, more than ever, leadership — principal leadership — is needed to address the increasing diversity and marginalization in Ontario schools. In 2009, Realizing the Promise of Diversity: Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy policy was released. While The Ontario Leadership Framework …
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Voices of Female, Rural Superintendents as They Implement California's Local Control Funding Formula Policy
… policy as a means to improve student achievement for decades. California played a pivotal roll in the national trend for numerous years; most recently with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) policy passed in 2013. The purpose of this study was to listen to the voices of female, rural …
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Transformative dialogue: the principal's role in raising issues of difference
… complex connections between race (Delpit, 1996), social class (Knapp & Woolverton, 1995) and the public schools have been exhaustively covered in the literature, the shifting demographics, and historical inequities that disproportionately affect low-income and racial/ethnic minority students …
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High school administrators’ perceptions of social justice, equity, and leadership: An initial grounded theory
… of school districts. The federal legislature forced districts to look at disaggregated scores to expose the achievement gap between historically minoritized students and White students (Ladson-Billings, 2006; O’Doherty & Ovando, 2009). Instead of approaching the achievement gap with race in …
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High school principals’ influence in college and career readiness for students from historically underserved populations: practices that build upon capital within schools
… schools focused on college and career readiness for all students, but in particular students from historically underserved backgrounds, and to identify and describe the characteristics that they shared (Stake, 2005, 2006). This study involved case study research methods, with two case study …