Succession Planning for Community-Engaged Leaders: Context, Culture, and History in the Continuity of Diverse Leaders

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Abstract

This paper offers a framework that conceptualizes principal succession planning for community-engaged leadership. While succession planning is typically rooted in linear models of supply-and-demand that emphasize individualism, competition, and productivity, community-engaged leadership elevates cultural logics rooted in collectivism, collaboration, and expansive forms of expertise for school improvement. We consider ways to extend these logics to succession planning by using a systematic review of literature across three bodies of research--school leadership, community-engagement, and historic cases of Black leadership in segregated schools pre-Brown. Guided by a community cultural wealth framework and a conceptual tool for empowerment-oriented community-engagement, our paper offers an expansive model of succession planning attentive to context, culture, and history for continuity of diverse leaders in communities of color. 

Authors

• Terrenda Corisa White, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Caitlin Farrell, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Alison Fox Resnick, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Monica Obregon, University of Colorado - Boulder