South Texas Early College High School Social Justice Principals Disrupting Inequitable Systems for Latinx Students

• In Event: Leading for Equity: Different Places, Different Faces, but the Same Inequities

Abstract

Demographics across the country are quickly shifting and diversifying with Latinx now the majority of student populations in schools throughout the country representing the major current and future workforce (Noe-Bustamante et al., 2019). Thus, equity and social justice is a primary concern for educational practitioners that recognize the need for social justice principals who can lead schools which afford an equitable education that promotes academic and college preparedness for all students (Barnett et al., 2015; Miller & Martin, 2014). To build on the limited extant literature regarding how principals enact social justice, this study will investigate the strategies implemented by several early college principals in deep South Texas that have successfully disrupted inequities for the fast-growing Latinx population.

Authors

• LInda Uribe, Phaar-San Juan-Alamo ISD

• Gerri Marie Maxwell, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

• Doyne Scott Elliff, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

• Bernadine Cervantes, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi