Leadership's Ability to Provide Equal Educational Opportunity for LGBTQ Students

• In Event: 66.059 - Poster Session 14
  In Poster Session: 66.059-1 - School Leadership, Instructional Leadership, and Leading Through the Challenges of Social Justice and Contemporary Issues

Abstract

Current research findings (Bodger, Cook, Langley, & Pettit, 2013) suggests the importance of leadership for equal educational opportunity for all students. Ensuring the promise of equal education opportunity is an increasing issue for school leaders, as diverse populations of students continue to enter schools. In today's environment of LGBTQ students and the issues involved with ensuring their educational opportunity, leaders are facing new and difficult questions. To investigate the guidance received by superintendents and principals in Missouri public schools in regard to ensuring equal educational opportunity for students, specifically LGBTQ students, a 21 statement survey was distributed to all Missouri superintendents and principals focusing on the guidance provided, in the areas of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students.

Author

• Jody N. Wood, Saint Louis University