Using Social Justice Scholarship to Enact the Professional Development of “Rida” Educators in Urban School Professional Learning Communities

Session Submission Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

This innovative session seeks to engage in dialogue that brings together the teaching social justice empirical research base with the leading for social justice empirical research base in order to grapple with how to enact what is “known” in urban school contexts. Specifically, this session considers Duncan-Andrade’s (2007) scholarship alongside Scheurich and Skrla’s (2003) and Theoharis’ (2009) scholarship and how that scholarship informs one of the most proliferated urban school reform constructs – professional learning communities. The panel will include six scholars who have researched and grappled with various urban educational issues in the Midwest, West, East, South, and Southwest and who are familiar with Duncan-Andrade’s work and the complexities of that work within educational leadership rhetoric.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Christopher Thomas, University of San Francisco

Participants

• Frank Hernandez, Texas Christian University

• Decoteau J. Irby, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

• Carlos Raphael McCray, Fordham University

• Anjale DeVawn Welton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Using Social Justice Scholarship to Enact the Professional Development of “Rida” Educators in Urban School Professional Learning Communities - Kristin Shawn Huggins, Washington State University

Discussant

• Kristin Shawn Huggins, Washington State University