Black Men Educational Leaders Caring in Urban Schools: A Composite Counterstory

• In Event: Exploring the Experiences of Black School Leaders and Their Work

Abstract

This composite counterstory uses the Black Masculine Care (Bass, 2019) (BMC) framework to explore the leadership of Black men school leaders in two urban school districts. We posed the following research questions to highlight the importance of Black men in operationalizing care in educational settings: (a) How do Black men educational leaders demonstrate Black Masculine Caring in urban schools? and (b) How can composite counterstory be employed to explicate Black educational leaders’ lived experiences? Our findings include three themes that consistently appeared in the data and shed light on Black men school leaders: (1) support of BMC tenets; (2) expansion on BMC (i.e., high expectations, empathy, and advocacy of community); and (3) need for development toward BMC.

Authors

• Angel Miles Nash, Chapman University

• Osly J. Flores, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign