Inclusive Leadership Promoting Social Justice Praxis

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Schools in the United States have historically responded to dimensions of diversity by privileging some while marginalizing others. School leadership is central to reversing long-standing trends of educational inequities, exclusion, and disparate school outcomes. Social justice educational leadership must cultivate service delivery systems that effectively and efficiently educate traditionally marginalized students and promote inclusive school cultures across multiple dimensions of diversity (e.g., race, ethnicity, class, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation). The objective of this symposium is to promote such social justice praxis by synthesizing research on socially just school leadership across these dimensions and within various domains (i.e. classroom, school, and district, and leadership preparation). It will generate a wiki to facilitate ongoing synthesis and application of such scholarship.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Leadership for Social Justice

Chair

• Satasha L. Green, New York Institute of Technology

Papers

• Leading Inclusive Reform for Students With Disabilities: A School and System-Wide Approach - George Theoharis, Syracuse University; Julie N. Causton-Theoharis, Syracuse University

• All Kids Can Be Readers: The Marriage of Reading First and Inclusive Education - Christine Elaine Ashby, Syracuse University

• Leadership Training to Meet the Needs of Our LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning) Youth - Frank Hernandez, Texas Christian University; Donald J. Fraynd, TeacherMatch

• Reframing Race in Education: Improving Leadership and Learning Through Racial Literacy - Sonya Douglass Horsford, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Including Religion for Social Justice - Joanne M. Marshall, Iowa State University

• Refusing Deficit Ideology: A “Cultural Funds” Approach to Class Equity in Schools - Paul Cameron Gorski, George Mason University

Discussant

• Martin Scanlan, Marquette University