Philly Under Fire: Counternarratives on School Reform, Pedagogy, and Community Voices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium is designed to be an exploration of macro, meso and micro-level factors that have impacted education in Philadelphia among African American educators, parents and students. Authors examines their research through a critical liberatory lens to identify the innovative opportunities inherent in school reform, leadership, school and community partnerships, student voice, and pedagogy. Initially, we traverse the career paths of retired, veteran and present school administrators. We then engage issues of research methodology, counter-narratives, and educators' pedagogical choices in non-traditional classes, such as servant leadership and rites of passage, in the context of a charter Freedom School.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Doing and Undoing: How the School District of Philadelphia Came Undone, 1967-2013 - Camika Royal, Loyola University Maryland

• Innovation in Policy Through the Assistant Principalship in School Leadership - Sabriya K. Jubilee, Temple University

• Innovation in Pedagogy Through Preparing Servant Leaders as a Strategy in History, Cultural Studies, and Service-Learning - Kelli Nicole Sparrow Mickens, Alvernia University

• Exploring Innovative Practices in Educational Ethnography: Student Voice, Identity, and Positionality in Rites of Passage Research - Angela N. Campbell, Cabrini College

• Digital Communities of Practice, Parent Involvement, and School Reform - Alesha Gayle, Temple University