Developing Justice Leaders: High-Impact Strategies in Leadership Preparation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Research has shown that school leaders play a crucial role in supporting student achievement, school climate, and collaboration. While leadership preparation programs are expected to prepare aspiring leaders by providing them with the content knowledge and experiential know-how to be effective leaders, greater attention to research that showcases the preparation of justice leaders equipped to lead through equity-oriented, inclusive, and antiracist practices is needed. The papers in this session offer examples of HIPs shown to have a profound influence on aspiring candidates’ leadership identity and practices – including and especially for candidates of color. The session offers a pathway for the construction of educational possibilities in the preparation of antiracist leaders equipped to disrupt and dismantle racial injustice in P12 schools.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 5: Leadership Preparation Development

Chair

• Jaron Fried, Anaheim Union High School District

Papers

• Growing the Emotional Intelligence of Leadership Preparation Candidates Through Individual Coaching - Jennifer Goldstein, California State University - Fullerton; Guadalupe Serrano, Anaheim Union High School District

• Focusing on Students to Develop Justice Leaders - Helen A. Panero, Hunter College - CUNY

• Setting the Stage: Pedagogical Practices to Foster Antiracist Leaders - Maritza Lozano, California State University - Fullerton; Mary Grace, Anaheim Elementary School District - Anaheim, CA

Discussant

• Michelle D. Young, University of California - Berkeley