{"title":"The Whole Story: A Black Principal’s Experience With Race, Racism, and Racial Trauma","authors":"Kimberly Clarida","doi":"10.1177/15554589221148228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221148228","url":null,"abstract":"Principal Harris, a new Black male principal at Merion High School, has found himself under fire for allegedly promoting critical race theory (CRT). He has received several forms of pushback as he navigates district and state mandates, racial trauma, invisible taxes, and microaggressions. Unfortunately, his best intentions are not good enough. This case is designed to display the various factors Black principals face in schools and districts amid ongoing public health crises (e.g., COVID-19 and racism). I describe the layered role of race, racism, and racial trauma on Principal Harris through his reflections and responses to stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126572784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Professional Development: A Necessary Risk?","authors":"Melissa Wrenn, K. Gregory, J. Gallagher","doi":"10.1177/15554589221148405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221148405","url":null,"abstract":"Amy Yarborough, a veteran teacher and curriculum resource leader in a rural district in Virginia, facilitates a professional learning community focused on social justice and equity-oriented instructional practices. When allegations of teaching critical race theory are reported via the state’s email tip line and community social media groups, Amy is asked to present her professional learning community materials to the local school board. In the midst of stakeholder protests and media scrutiny, Amy must decide how to explain her professional decisions. Current and future educational leaders interested in issues related to race and equity will consider the roles of policy and the public in influencing teachers’ lessons.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130161643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unlearning Discipline: Increasing Opportunities and Addressing Disproportionality in Discipline for Black and Latinx Students","authors":"Ronald J. Dionisio, Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas","doi":"10.1177/15554589221150415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221150415","url":null,"abstract":"Schools in the United States continue to be vastly inequitable, particularly in disciplinary practices for Black and Latinx students. This case examines one school’s attempts to alleviate disproportionate disciplinary practices. Teachers are encouraged to interrogate themselves, practices, and policies through equity professional learning to create better outcomes. As the school attempts to unlearn harmful punitive approaches to discipline, facilitators met with resistance from staff members, and inequities remain and even worsen. This case asks readers to consider the challenges leaders face when implementing professional learning to minimize disproportionality in discipline and grow staff capacity for culturally responsive pedagogy and restorative practices.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116484327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compassionate Leadership as Witness: Paying Attention When We Don’t Want to Know","authors":"Kristina N. LaVenia, Kara Lasater","doi":"10.1177/15554589221138366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221138366","url":null,"abstract":"Millions of students in our schools live with a parent experiencing substance use disorder. Most people with substance use disorder begin using while they are school-age. School personnel are on the frontlines of this crisis; yet our policies, practices, and social norms create barriers to witnessing and healing for these students and families. This case provides a context to explore the usefulness of compassionate leadership to support marginalized and vulnerable students and families. Both compassionate leadership and crisis intervention inform our suggestions for practice.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133890950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“An Opportunity to Grow Our Collective Consciousness”: Navigating Racial Tension in a Gentrifying Elementary School","authors":"Jennifer B. Ayscue, Lindsey Beam, Kfir Mordechay","doi":"10.1177/15554589221138606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221138606","url":null,"abstract":"As gentrification changes the racial and socioeconomic composition of many neighborhoods across the United States, the enrollment of local schools in gentrifying communities may also change. While gentrification may provide opportunities for creating more diverse schools, challenges often accompany such changes. In this case, Principal Miller navigates tensions associated with supporting the school’s intentionally diverse and antiracist mission on a daily basis and in response to a noteworthy event—the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol. He grapples with how to build community and address racism among the adult members of the school community, including parents and teachers.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133421005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fractured School Community: Decolonizing Leaders Needed for Responsive Leadership","authors":"Patricia Briscoe, E. McIntosh","doi":"10.1177/15554589221128051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221128051","url":null,"abstract":"In this case, Mary, a cisgender White principal, is struggling in a contentious school climate with a mostly White staff and a racially divided school community. A lunchroom incident highlighted the unaddressed conflict among students, families, and the community that can no longer be ignored. Her unresponsive leadership raises questions about the capacity of White school leaders to be culturally responsive. The authors present a decolonizing leadership framework and three activities, framed by transformative learning theory, that encourage participants to reflect on their biases and develop their understanding of what colonizing and decolonizing education means to their leadership.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121081088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Importance of Transformational Leadership to Support Faculty Diversity in Our Nation’s Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Learning","authors":"Jadwiga A. Carlson, Kristina N. LaVenia","doi":"10.1177/15554589221136798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221136798","url":null,"abstract":"Predominantly white institutions (PWIs) struggle to attract and retain underrepresented faculty. Despite aspirations for diversity, the reality remains that underrepresented faculty are not hired and retained in numbers sufficient to change the institution’s demographics. The leadership of PWIs strives for solutions to ameliorate the trend in recruitment, retention, and climate. The issue has gained even more significance recently due to the global coronavirus pandemic when layoffs, non-renewals, and hiring freezes have been widely imposed. This case examines how systemic leadership problems, mindsets, and climates keep PWIs at the status quo, and invites application of leadership and adult learning theories to develop a strategy for improving faculty diversity at PWIs.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129393833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Baker, Jenny Hill, Brittany Portwood, Erin Smith-Harrah, Daniella Hall Sutherland
{"title":"One Size Does Not Fit All: How Leadership Strategies Affect Teacher Satisfaction and Retention","authors":"Rebecca Baker, Jenny Hill, Brittany Portwood, Erin Smith-Harrah, Daniella Hall Sutherland","doi":"10.1177/15554589221120776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221120776","url":null,"abstract":"Teacher retention rates continue to plummet at schools across the nation. A principal at Sunnyside Elementary watches firsthand as the revolving door of teachers increases significantly in her brief 3 years of leadership at this school. Once well-known and highly regarded at an award-winning school in the northeast, the principal struggles to delegate, communicate, and acclimate to a high-needs school in the southeastern United States. Yet the practices that worked so well in the northeast sends many of her teachers to search for greener pastures year after year. This case study examines leadership for retention, including communication, organizational climate, and relationship development.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128225560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Be There and Be Present: An Interorganizational Network to Improve School Attendance","authors":"J. Childs, Ain A. Grooms","doi":"10.1177/15554589221089866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221089866","url":null,"abstract":"This case study explores a county-wide initiative to improve school attendance through a successful network collaboration among organizations within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The network was a collaboration between nonprofit, for-profit, governmental, and educational leaders who sought to raise awareness about the effects of chronic absenteeism on student outcomes. Educational leaders and, specifically, district and school level administrators are often navigating the different programs and interventions that could lead to improved student attendance, while also dealing with factors that are outside of their control. Educators studying this case will examine the reasons why students become chronically absent and strategies that factor in collective action to see improvement in attendance rates.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121287581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under Pressure: Leadership for Literacy and Cultural Responsiveness","authors":"Lisa D. Thompson, Kristina F. Brezicha","doi":"10.1177/15554589221119406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589221119406","url":null,"abstract":"This case considers the literacy leadership practices of Principal Howard at Pinecrest Academy Title I elementary school in the southeastern United States. An award-winning school, Pinecrest Academy serves over 500 students, 98% of whom are students of color. Through the lens of instructional leadership for literacy and culturally responsive school leadership for literacy, this case study examines how the principal used school improvement planning to (a) bolster the literacy outcomes of third-grade students of color, (b) form partnerships with the parents and families of third-grade students of color to increase literacy outcomes, and (c) reframe the literacy focus when external and internal factors threatened to derail the school’s progress.","PeriodicalId":321394,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131232524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}