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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Social Justice Leadership"”.
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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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Response to intervention through a social justice leadership framework: An inquiry of principal's beliefs and effect on classroom practice
… instructional system operates. In this study, social justice will be used as the lens for examining RtI systems. Social justice is recognized as a framework for creating equal access for all students. The identification of barriers in the form of policies, attitudes and perceptions that do not …
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The Experiences of Youth from Immigrant and Refugee Backgrounds in a Social Justice Leadership Program: A Participatory Action Research Photovoice Project
… More recently, a strengths-based, resilient, and social justice lens has been used to look at this historically oppressed population. In this research, I examined the experiences of immigrant and refugee youth in their involvement in a social justice leadership club in a secondary school in …
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Best Practices of National Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) Distinguished Principals
As the practice of social justice in traditional schools becomes embedded in the discourse of educational settings (Theoharis, 2007), school leaders are increasingly being required to practice social justice leadership by identifying and initiating practices that engage students from diverse and …
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Voices of Female, Rural Superintendents as They Implement California's Local Control Funding Formula Policy
… and Shakeshaft’s (2011) diverse collective leadership theory. This emerging theory identifies five themes through which women educational leaders generally lead: relational leadership, leadership for social justice, leadership for learning, spiritual leadership, and balanced leadership.</p> …
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Rural and Suburban Superintendent Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes in Relation to English Learner Students: An Equity-Focused Exploration
… combination of two articles that both highlight social justice leadership, decision-making of superintendents and the impacts this type of leadership has on the English Learner population. The first scholarly deliverable is a case study titled “Standing Up for What's Right: A New Superintendent …
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Inclusive Education in Practice: District-Level Special Education Administrators' Leadership
… Education, 2017), it is critical to examine the leadership it takes to provide equitable education to students with disabilities. This study employs a qualitative research methodology utilizing in-depth interviewing to understand the leadership experiences of seven district-level special …
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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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The role of principal leadership in special education: a Delphi study
… for school principals to understand and apply leadership skills that will result in successful achievement for all students. The purpose of this qualitative Delphi study was to explore the behaviors, characteristics, skills, and knowledge elementary school principals identify as essential for …
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Latino Immigrant Parents of English Language Learner Students, School Involvement and the Participation Breach
… racism, challenge to the status quo, social justice leadership and allowed for an interdisciplinary approach in order to utilize the parents' experiential knowledge to create new epistemologies that correspond to their cultural needs.</p> <p>Participation included five co-researchers …
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Transforming a system: leadership to implement an intervention and referral services process that assists teachers
… Yet, meaningful school reform with transforming leadership, innovative vision, conversations among teachers, and authentic student achievement still remains elusive today. Our limitations in putting new ideas into practice come not from a lack of will or effort, but, in part, from the influences …
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Exploring the Leadership Practices of Social Justice Leaders at Urban Charter Schools
… all of their students and deserve to be called social justice leaders. This study aimed to expand the field of school leadership studies and focus on social justice leaders in charter schools using a phenomenological interview methodology. Each of four participants was interviewed in three …
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Exploring the Impact of Inclusive Education Knowledge on School Administrators' Attitudes: A Quantitative Analysis of Influencing Factors and Leadership Preparedness
… on the Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and social justice leadership (SJL) framework, investigated the relationship between administrators' knowledge, source of knowledge, and attitudes toward inclusive education. To investigate how preparation programs, on-the-job, and other experiences …
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Urban District Reform for Equity: The Case of the Model Schools for Inner Cities Program in the Toronto District School Board
… and outside of the reform, and mediated by the leadership of key decision-makers. Ideological, political and leadership influences impacted three major tensions: accountability and responsibility; centralization and decentralization; and when and how to scale up reforms for equity. Key findings …
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Navigating Conflict in Inclusive Education: Autoethnography from an Elementary School Principal
… personal levels in addressing the academic and social needs of students with disabilities.</p> <p>The main questions that guided this research were: a) What are the everyday conflicts that elementary school principals experience on a daily basis while transitioning from providing special …
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Principals' and Assistant Principals' Self-Reported Levels of Preparedness to Assist Instructional Staff Working with English Learners in Two School Districts in Virginia
… issues of equity and marginalization promote social justice in their schools and increase student achievement for marginalized student populations including ELs. The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify principals' and assistant principals' self-reported levels of preparedness to …
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Leadership Practices Implemented by Elementary Principals to Address the Academic and Non-Academic Needs of English Learners
… and non-ELs. Research highlights the effective leadership of school principals who lead with instructional, social justice, and collaborative leadership styles. School leaders can close achievement gaps but the research on the field of school leadership for ELs is limited. The purpose of this …
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