We Didn’t Just Happen: Toward Critical Educational Leadership as Renewal

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As critical educational leaders, our work has been far from “just happened.” Our work has been steady out of necessity, but still remains minoritized. As critical educational leaders, must then ask ourselves, how does our work provide a remedy to the harms caused by ideologies, policies, and practices that reproduce patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonialism? How do we codify practices and systems that repair that harm and renew our spirits while remaining vigilant in social justice work? This symposium assembles four scholar-organizers from different contexts to respond to these questions by also adding, how might enacting a healing, decolonial, ethnic studies, and critical race praxis work to reimagine educational leadership?

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Division A - Section 5: Leadership Preparation Development

Chair

• G.T. Reyes, California State University - East Bay

Papers

• “It’s Seven Generations All the Time”: Repurposing Schools Through Educational Leadership for Transformation and Healing - Joaquin Noguera, Loyola Marymount Universtiy

• Ethnic Studies Leadership Praxis: An Analysis of Leadership for Ethnic Studies in California - Tracie Noriega, Association of California School Administrators

• “Are you ready for the smoke?”: Engaging Ethnic Studies Epistemologies toward new forms of Leadership in Education - Orlando L. Carreón, Sonoma State University

• Collective Preservation as Political Warfare in Educational Leadership - G.T. Reyes, California State University - East Bay

Discussant

• Dolores Delgado Bernal, Loyola Marymount University