Frontline Leadership in education moves beyond stale, dated, predetermined, irrelevant, underresponsive, disconnected, and “racially neutral” decision making that maintains a white-centric orientation to how the world works and how the world should work. In this excerpt, discover the eight tenets of Frontline Leadership and practices of frontline leaders.
In this forward to The Race Card, professor and author Mark Anthony Goodwin discusses the importance of conceptualizing race and racism for education leaders.
For the leaders in our study, the desire to do good and right emerged as a powerful way into justice-centering educational leadership. In this chapter, we zoom in on leaders’ experiences within the concrete domain of our developmental model for justice-centering leadership.
We were privileged to learn from a diverse group of teachers, administrators, former leadership students, and other professionals in the field. Our hope was not, per se, to generate a book of best practices culled from the most successful, most accomplished justice-centering leaders out there (although we do, we are happy to report, get to recount many promising strategies and approaches!). Rather, we were interested in learning from leaders across the widest possible range of perspectives, identities, experiences, roles, geographies, and ways of knowing that we could at the time.
Learn how leaders committed to social justice can support the growth and contributions of others while also development their own capacities to engage, appreciate, understand, connect, and lead for change and transformation.
Many of the stories in this journal, shared with us by our female sisters in leadership, illustrate the power of myths, biases, imposter syndrome, stereotypes, and gender inequities. As we read the stories of others and contemplate our own, this journal provides the counternarrative, a different story for emerging female leaders. Download this free sample to reflect on your own leadership story.
