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The Role of School Leadership in Setting the Conditions for Impactful, Sustained Social Justice Professional Development

Bowen, Rod C.
http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1496-2825
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1728554311810064

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2024, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
The racial diversity of children in US public schools continues to increase while most teachers and school leaders are White. In addition, systemic racism, whitewashing of curricula, microaggressions, and deficit mindsets persist within schools across the country. These pervasive injustices that plague the student experiences of children of the Global Majority must be addressed with focused, sustained intention. This study offers social justice school leadership as an effective strategy to dismantle oppressive approaches to schooling. Specifically, it explores how social justice-oriented school leaders set the conditions for impactful, sustained staff development in social justice practice. By employing multiple case study methodology, the experiences of leaders within two New York City public middle schools that have established commitments to culturally responsive/relevant teaching (CR/RT) will be explored. Semi-structured interviews were used to uncover how school leaders leveraged both adaptive and technical leadership to enact school-wide efforts to embed CR/RT into instructional practice. Analysis was built on an existing framework to identify specific leadership roles that best support impactful social justice professional development over time. This study seeks to understand frequently overlooked aspects of this topic by delving into mindsets and actions, acknowledging both formal and informal school leadership and how such efforts play out within multiracial staff. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive (https://aura.antioch.edu/) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).
Lemuel Watson, EdD (Committee Chair)
Philomena Essed, PhD (Committee Member)
Shannon R. Waite, EdD (Committee Member)
184 p.
Education; Educational Leadership; School Administration; Teacher Education
social justice in schools; school leadership; teacher professional development; culturally responsive; culturally relevant; case study

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  • Bowen, R. C. (2024). The Role of School Leadership in Setting the Conditions for Impactful, Sustained Social Justice Professional Development [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1728554311810064

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bowen, Rod. The Role of School Leadership in Setting the Conditions for Impactful, Sustained Social Justice Professional Development. 2024. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1728554311810064.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bowen, Rod. "The Role of School Leadership in Setting the Conditions for Impactful, Sustained Social Justice Professional Development." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1728554311810064

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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