At the Crossroads of Standards and Equity: Merging Practice and Theory to Create the Leadership for Equity Assessment Tool

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Abstract

Focused on the intersection of standards and equity in leadership, this paper shares one state’s efforts to design and validate a professional growth and assessment tool (the Leadership for Equity Assessment) to measure leadership for equity. Merging theory with practitioner language, the tool describes equitable leadership behaviors in each of the Oregon administrative licensure standards along a continuum from unsatisfactory to exemplary. We developed and refined the tool through three iterative phases: 1) Development and initial refinement; 2) Small-scale pilot and focus groups; and 3) Oregon Leadership Network Institute sorting and alignment study. Revisions after each phase resulted in an online guided self-assessment tool that represents a promising instrument for measuring and supporting the development of educational leaders’ equitable practice.

Authors

• Ann Ishimaru, University of Washington

• Mollie Galloway, Lewis & Clark

• Rob Larson, Education Northwest

• Carolyn S. Carr, Lewis & Clark