Equitable Leadership: Roles of School and District Leaders in Achieving Social and Educational Equity

• In Event: Educational Leadership for Educational Equity

Abstract

Using sensemaking (Weick, 1995) as a framework, this study explores how administrators understand and describe leadership for equity in schools. Research is limited to define equitable leadership as it is efficiently practiced, that thereby measured, within a given school (Furman, 2012). Findings show that equitable leadership practice is negatively impacted where awareness and active response are lacking specific to equity and diversity in the school. Findings also serve to illuminate conceptualizations from the field that may inform scholarly frameworks for understanding equitable leadership practice. The research has implications for enhancing leadership practice that is racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse.

Authors

• Tiffany M. Squires, The Pennsylvania State University

• Hansol Woo, Samsung Global Research