From Principals to Practice: An Examination of How Teachers Adopt Antiracist Attitudes and Practices

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Abstract

This study explores how White principals committed to antiracist education influence and shape teachers' antiracist behaviors and practices. Furthermore, this study explores what additional or other factors they attribute to shaping their antiracist behaviors and practices. Exploring this relationship is especially timely given the increase in national attention to race and (anti)racism and conversation surrounding how educators will respond in the upcoming school year. Antiracism and critical Whiteness as theoretical and conceptual considerations will be utilized to investigate the role Whiteness plays in educators' commitment, behavior and practices concerning antiracist education. There are implications for antiracist leadership specifically for White principals as well as recommendations for further research.

Author

• Sarah D. Lent, University of Wisconsin - Madison