33.018 - Division A Fireside Chat: Strengthening School Leaders' Understandings of the Intersections of Identity, Culture, Language, Heritage, and Justice Conceptualization

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session will examine intersections of identity, culture, language, and heritage and how school leaders can realize justice for students and families who are educationally marginalized, dispossessed, and excluded. School leaders' identities are shaped by personal funds of knowledge, beliefs, and longstanding assumptions; and identity shapes leaders’ responsiveness to student language, culture, and heritage. It is at this intersection of identity, culture, language, and heritage at which justice can begin to be conceptualized and enacted. In this session, critical scholars of education leadership, education policy, language, and culture will dialogue on research, preparation, and frameworks for strengthening school leaders’ pursuit for education justice.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsors

• Division A - Administration

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Kate Michelle Rollert, Michigan State University

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

Speakers

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

• Norma E. Gonzalez, The University of Arizona

• Jean A. Patterson, Wichita State University

• Robert T. Teranishi, University of California - Los Angeles

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