A Pedagogical Life History of Jacqueline K. Haynes

• In Event: Life Histories of Principal and Teacher Activists: Developing Black High Schools in the United States

Abstract

Using a life history approach, this work focuses on Jacqueline K.Haynes’ pedagogical encounters as a school and district administrator. Using social capital theory and critical race theory, we asked about community cultural wealth and its relevance to her leadership. This life history illustrates how she combatted the forces of anti-Black racism through bonds involving fictive, familial, and professional kinship. Her life history challenges the dominant leadership success narrative referred to as turnaround leadership and the sub-narrative that the only schools needing to be turned around are those primarily serving Black students. Her pedagogical leadership is an extension of others’ oppositional efforts to combat the miseducation of the Negro (Woodson, 1933) and the mis-leadership of schools serving Black students.

Authors

• Vonzell Agosto, University of South Florida
  Presenting Author

• Jacqueline Haynes, Charleston County School District
  Presenting Author

• Ann Marie M. Mobley, University of South Florida
  Presenting Author