From the Teacher to the Superintendent: Building Educational Systems to Support Racial Equity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium connects complementary research studies that focus on preparing and developing leaders and teachers to build and sustain systems to support racial equity in pre-k-12 classrooms, schools, and districts. The research projects describe promising best practices, reflect upon opportunities for growth, and challenge barriers to advancing racial equity in pre- and in-service educator preparation. Moreover, these studies coalesce often distinctive bodies of research (e.g., teacher, principal, and superintendent studies) in order to facilitate a more expansive, system-level discourse around the possibilities for enhanced racial equity in a more interconnected educational system.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 1: Leadership

Chair

• Jennifer Robinson, Montclair State University

Papers

• Developing Equity-Focused Superintendents - Darion A. Wallace, Stanford University; Larkin Willis, Learning Policy Institute; Maria E. Hyler, Learning Policy Institute; Marjorie E. Wechsler, Learning Policy Institute; Desiree Carver-Thomas, Learning Policy Institute

• How Principals Learn to Lead for Equity - Marjorie E. Wechsler, Learning Policy Institute

• Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning and Equity - Maria E. Hyler, Learning Policy Institute

Discussant

• Ebony Green, Newburgh Enlarged City School District