Supervising for Equity: Preparing Future Instructional Leaders to Promote Educational Equity

• In Event: 61.009 - Leader Capacity for Equitable Schools

Abstract

This paper documents the development of a lesson on supervising for equity (SfE)--using supervisory practices in the service of promoting equitable educational experiences and outcomes across student groups. We studied the implementation of the SfE lesson with three cohorts of graduate students in pursuit of answering the following research questions: How can university faculty and school leadership programs prepare future instructional leaders to be attuned to equity? How can collaborative inquiry guided by the traditions of participatory action research (PAR) and lesson study inform pedagogical efforts to prepare instructional supervisors committed to equity? Through an iterative process of lesson design, lesson implementation, analysis of student work, and pedagogical discussion, we refine the SfE lesson.

Authors

• Rachel Garver, Montclair State University

• Tanya Maloney, Montclair State University