Leading With Equity at the Helm: Collaborative Innovation of a School Improvement Plan

• In Event: School-Wide Improvement

Abstract

In an effort to improve our nation’s underperforming schools, school improvement plans have been design to serve as a tool for accountability agencies to direct schools toward rational management of school improvement. Too often, school improvement research tends to focus exclusively under a managerialist paradigm, ignoring the structural inequities that plagued schools both historically and present day. By incorporating a social justice evaluation approach, this study showcases how educational leaders can develop school improvement plans that center on equity—to address the educational debt.

Authors

• Jonathan L. Hamilton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

• Joseph Wiemelt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Tiffany Octavia Harris, University of Illinois

• Priya Goel La Londe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign