Full Description
This inspirational book provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders, and how these partnerships can thrive. Readers will find details of one such partnership, Leadership Education for Anaheim Districts (LEAD), which incorporated high-impact practices for equity, self-knowledge, and system change. Using the LEAD partnership as an example, this accessible text provides supports for launching a similar radical partnership, including converging goals, a student-centered theory of action, and key resources. It offers guidance for sustaining a radical partnership through the inevitable questions and conflicts that will arise, including coteaching of all content by university and district partners, and the mutual respect needed for successful joint work. The text includes core pieces of LEAD's leadership preparation curriculum and instruction that encourage new forms of leaders and leadership, including strategic inquiry, multilingual-learner shadowing, and one-on-one coaching and mentoring. Radical University-District Partnerships is a call for universities and school districts to work together toward preparing educational leaders who will bring greater justice for all children.
Book Features:
A focus on preparing principals to lead schools in ways that change outcomes for historically underserved students (K-12).
A framework for radical partnerships that is horizontal, authentic, and engaged in justice.
Chapters coauthored by a team of university faculty, district administrators, and program graduates.
Voices of program graduates who share their experiences in LEAD and how it impacted their leadership learning.
A look forward to next steps for practicing and theorizing, including ways to adjust LEAD programming based on the editors' research findings and successful expansion to a second school district.
Contents
Foreword - Michelle Young
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Partner Voices - Jennifer Goldstein
1. Radical Partnership: A Conceptual Framework - Jennifer Goldstein and Michael Matsuda
2. Building a Radical Partnership: The Leadership Education for Anaheim Districts Case - Jennifer Goldstein, Nell Scharff Panero, Maritza Lozano, and Manuel Colón
3. Sustaining a Radical Partnership: Evolving the Partnership Through Implementation - Jennifer Goldstein, Nell Scharff Panero, Maritza Lozano, and Manuel Colón
4. Leadership Preparation That Centers Emotional Intelligence: Self-Reflection and Individual Coaching - Jennifer Goldstein and Maritza Lozano
5. Leadership Preparation That Centers Equity and Justice: Focusing on Students Through Strategic Inquiry and Shadowing Multilingual Learners - Nell Scharff Panero, Jennifer Goldstein, and Maritza Lozano
Part II: Graduate Voices - Maritza Lozano
6. "Those Kids": Shifting the Conversation With Colleagues - Diana Amaro Fujimoto
7. "Ser Como Soy": Leading with Compassion, Empathy, and Love - Claudia Ruiz-Flores with Maritza Lozano
8. Stepping Out of the Shadows - Amanda Bryant
9. "No one has ever taught me that before, Mr. Lee": Using Strategic Inquiry to Meet the Needs of Multilingual Learners With Writing Instruction - Andy Lee
10. Oral Language Development Across the Curriculum: Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Arts - Brian Belski
11: Finding My Voice by Helping Students Find Theirs: Centering the Expertise of a Teacher of Students With Disabilities - Christina Maguire
Part III: The Chorus - Jennifer Goldstein
12. Leadership Preparation That Centers Systems Change - Jennifer Goldstein and Manuel Colón with Jaron Fried, Brad Jackson, Maritza Lozano, Aida Molina, and Estela Zarate
Conclusion: Lessons Unlearned - Jennifer Goldstein, Maritza Lozano, and Nell Scharff Panero
Notes
References
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
