Critical Leadership Praxis for Educational and Social Change

Katie Pak (Edited by), Sharon Ravitch (Edited by)

9780807765081

Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2021

256 pages
22.3 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.352 kg

Educational leaders confront instances of inequity every day, whether they are aware of it or not. Many find themselves inadequately reacting to such issues due in part to traditional preparation programs that fail to interrogate the existence and impact of systems of oppression. Why is naming and tackling inequity not at the forefront of every conversation about educational leadership? How do our social constructions of identity hierarchies and deficits (mis)shape what leaders think and do? How do leaders advocate for those who need and deserve advocacy? This volume considers these questions and more by offering unique leadership frameworks that integrate critical theories for social change with everyday practice. By bringing together diverse researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who are often pushed to the margins, this volume will help today's leaders see with new eyes and gain the critical tools, language, and concepts for equity leadership. The text is organized into four sections: Transforming Self, Transforming Educators, Transforming Organizations, and Transforming Systems.

Book Features:

• Interrupts prevailing practices and advocates for a more inclusive, intersectional vision of leaders and the field of educational leadership.
• Specific and useful frames, concepts, and practices that leaders can adapt to their own context.
• Authors that reflect diverse perspectives with wide-ranging identities who intentionally push back against the White male-dominated discourse.
• A practitioner-friendly format that includes glossaries of terms and resources.
• Insights that reflect the worldwide pandemic crises of 2020.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments 
  vii
• Katie Pak and Sharon Ravitch
• Preface: Leadership in a Hurting World: Rupture, Reckoning, Reimagining 
  xi
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• 1. 
  Critical Leadership Praxis for Educational and Social Change 
  1
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• DOMAIN I: TRANSFORMING SELF 
  27
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• 2. 
  Critical Leadership for Transformation in Crisis 
  35
• Sherry Coleman and Courtney Portlock
• 3. 
  Asian American Women Leaders Reclaiming Leader Identities Through Collaborative Autoethnography 
  49
• Katie Pak, Elaine W. Leigh, and Jennifer Phuong
• DOMAIN II: TRANSFORMING EDUCATORS 
  63
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• 4. 
  On the Ground, Every Day: Five Pillars for Developing Culturally Sustaining, Critically Conscious Practitioners 
  73
• Andrew J. Schiera, Elizabeth Simmons, Latricia Whitfield, and Hayden Frederick-Clarke
• 5. 
  Raciolinguistic Perspectives in Leadership Development: Testimonios Within and Across Bilingual Education 
  87
• Karla Venegas, Erica Saldí
  var Garcí
  a, and Ivá
  n Rosales Montes
• 6. 
  Transformative Storytelling as Critical Praxis for Educational Leaders 
  101
• Laura Colket, Janay M. Garrett, and Mia S. Shaw
• DOMAIN III: TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONS 
  115
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• 7. 
  Developing Critically Inclusive, Anti-Ableist Organizations 
  123
• Jennifer Phuong, Christa S. Bialka, and Megan MacDonald
• 8. 
  Developing Education Organizations With Gender and Queer Inclusive Cultures 
  137
• Charlotte E. Jacobs and Katie Clonan-Roy
• 9. 
  Indigeneity, Engagement, and Responsiveness 
  151
• Sia Elle Brown and Jacqueline G. Lopez
• DOMAIN IV: TRANSFORMING SYSTEMS 
  165
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• 10. 
  Minding the School–
  Community Leadership Gap: Reframing for Critical Praxis 
  173
• Ankhi Thakurta, Laura Ogburn, and Atenea Rosado-Viurques
• 11. 
  Trauma-Informed Leadership: Balancing Love and Accountability 
  187
• Nimet Suheyla Eren and Sharon M. Ravitch
• 12. 
  Decolonizing Educational Mindsets 
  201
• Reima Yosif Shakeir, Rehana Thembeka Odendaal, and Atenea Rosado-Viurques
• Conclusion 
  216
• Katie Pak and Sharon M. Ravitch
• Afterword: Leadership Development for Critical Leadership Praxis 
  218
• Kathy J. Rho and Nikole T. Booker
• About the Contributors 
  226
• Index 
  233