Purveyors of change : school leaders of color share narratives of student, school, and community success

• Other Authors: Alston, Judy A. (Editor), Scott, Lawrence (Editor), Alexander, Sheree N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2020.
• Series: Research, advocacy, collaboration, and empowerment mentoring series.
• Subjects: African Americans > Education.; Minorities > Education > United States.; Educational leadership > United States.; African American educators.; Community and school > United States.; Education > Leadership.; Educational administration and organization.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806604876
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-64802-230-2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages)

"Effective leadership is the necessary ingredient in achieving educational improvement in schools; everything rises and falls on leadership. For School Leaders of Color, this leadership imperative is more difficult than it is for their White counterparts. Concomitantly with this leadership nece...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Culture and climate
• Chapter 1. From peril to promise / Donna Druery
• Chapter 2. Out of school suspensions impact on students of color / Dorothy C. Handfield
• Chapter 3. You're hired! An administrator's tale of attracting, training, and retaining highly qualified teachers / Lawrence Scott
• Chapter 4. Selling education / Charisma S. Popillion
• Part II. Student success
• Chapter 5. Cause you talk like me: Color'd girl leading / Patricia Virella
• Chapter 6. Coaching for success: An administrator's account about African American leadership / Willie Black
• Chapter 7. Planning for student success: Addressing academic achievement, and social emotional well-being / Renee L. Garraway
• Chapter 8. District-level programs for black student success: Constraints and opportunities for leaders, staff, and community / Wil Greer
• Part III. Resilience, persistence, and turnaround
• Chapter 9. The negligence of conformist leadership / Joseph Cerna
• Chapter 10. Dare to dream and keep it moving: From ged to edd / C. Dedra Williams
• Chapter 11. Leading and surviving: Navigating and surviving the political currents in urban education / Cynthia Alexander Mitchell
• Chapter 12. Inner-city public schools still work: How one principal's life is living proof / Mateen A. Diop
• Part IV. Resilience, persistence, and turnaround
• Chapter 13. Talking back: Two leadership dialogue about leading while black for social justice / Jamel Adkins-Sharif / and Natalie D. Lewis
• Chapter 14. Leading against anti-blackness / Floyd Cobb
• Chapter 15. When hegemony, microaggressions, and white fragility undermine your leadership / Raphael Crawford
• Chapter 16. Leading while black or brown / Jerneé S. Kollock-Mann. About the Contributors.