Principals' Effectiveness Toward Holistic Education: High Academic Outcomes, Moral Development, and Culturally Responsive Education

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 53
  In Roundtable Session: Moral Development and Education in Diverse Contexts

Abstract

This case study analysis the role of the principal’s leadership toward building a social justice school with high academic outcomes and life skills and moral development. Four major themes were provided by the qualitative research: a) Effective leader strategies, b) its barriers to lead the school effectively c) principal communication with different stakeholders and d) principal’s impact in the community. The three pillars of the paper are leadership, moral education and social justice environment. These three subthemes form a triangle or a pedagogical trilogy: Leadership-moral development and social justice.

Author

• Maricarmen Esper, The University of Texas - San Antonio