District Leadership for Equity: Connecting the System Toward a Common Goal

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 4:20 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Equity-Oriented Practices in Schools and Districts (Table 8)

Abstract

This study highlights the efforts of a central office in an urban school district in the Midwest to improve achievement and advance equity for students of color. The research explores what school central office leaders perceived as their roles in promoting equity within the district, specifically in providing instructional leadership, reorienting the organization, establishing policy coherence, and maintaining an equity focus. Findings implicate the need to tightly couple equity within all roles of district leadership. Implications point to the importance of district leaders being lead learners in district equity work and the importance of district leaders taking ownership of past injustices.

Author

• Jason Salisbury, University of Illinois at Chicago