Building Capacity for Equity-Oriented Leadership Through Immersion Learning

• In Event: 61.009 - Leader Capacity for Equitable Schools

Abstract

In this paper, we identify several elements of immersion learning experiences that effectively foster more culturally-sustaining leadership beliefs and develop needed instructional skills and knowledge in current school leaders. Drawing on data from survey responses and observations during trips, we advance a set of nuanced considerations for the ways in which such targeted, immersive professional development experiences shift the mindsets of leaders to eliminate deficit-thinking and drive organizational change (Riehl, 2000; Skrla & Scheurich, 2001).

Authors

• Mary Frances Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Gregory O'Donnell, University of Notre Dame