The New Transformational Leader: Political Responsive Leadership for Immigrant Youth

• In Event: Transformational Leadership: Equity, Community, and Politics

Abstract

This ethnographic study examined leadership practices at an immigrant-serving school in an urban immigrant enclave in New York City. Bethel High serves only the highest-need immigrant students but consistently reports positive outcomes on almost every traditional measure of achievement. I wanted to know how leaders at this high school created greater learning opportunities for newly arrived immigrant students? I found that political responsiveness was crucial for keeping bureaucracy and established systems in proper perspective and shielding teachers and students from unjust systems. A politically centered approach to leadership helped school leaders reimagine students' time frames for learning, growth, and development and create more appropriate structures for their teachers and students.

Author

• Chandler Patton Miranda, Molloy University
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