Centering Equity Audits in a Job-Embedded Principal Fellows Preparation Program: Advancing Equitable Leadership Frameworks

• In Event: 29.021 - Equity Leadership: Preparation and Practice

Abstract

Principal preparation programs are of great importance with high stakes accountability and the ESSA Act advocating for the needs of all students. School leaders can no longer neglect inequities and must move rhetoric to action. This study examines the utilization of the reconceptualized equity audit to identify, address, and eliminate inequities continually prevalent in the U. S. educational system. It is the basis of this qualitative study that if improvements are made in teacher quality equity and programmatic equity, improved achievement equity will result. This principal preparation program centers on the tool of equity audits by preparing candidates through a 15 month job-embedded internship linking theory and practice in a school-university partnership through the lens of equitable school leadership.

Authors

• Selenda Kay Cumby, Texas Tech University

• Mehmet Akif Cihan, Texas Tech University

• Chau Hong Phuoc Nguyen, Texas Tech University

• Erika Zavala, Texas Tech University

• Fernando Valle, Texas Tech University