Authentically Caring for Teachers of Color: Considerations for Educational Leadership in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Teachers of Color Leading With Criticality and Care (Table 32)

Abstract

Teachers of Color often enact authentic caring in their teaching to disrupt inequitable, subtractive, and neoliberal practices that harm students of Color. Despite this, less research focuses on how school structures and leadership might authentically care for teachers of Color to sustain them in the profession, rather than continuing to perpetuate harmful practices that push them out. This study draws from the insights and experiences of six secondary teachers of Color who taught throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to conceptualize how educational leaders might enact authentic caring to make the profession more sustainable for teachers of Color. Their narratives call for an active (re)imagining of schools as sustainable, authentically caring spaces for both students and teachers of Color.

Authors

• Corinna D. Ott, University of California - Riverside

• Alondra Marquez Carter, University of California - Riverside