By Ranesha Lee, Guest Contributor Leadership has been defined as a role to lead transformative change of a school. The function of effective leadership is to provide direction and exercise influence (Leithwood, K.A. & Riehl C. 2003). Providing a school direction is imperative, but integrating with the community is just as vital. The community’s culture,… Read more »
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Building School-Family Relationships
By Brian Collins, Guest Contributor During the Spring of 2018, I took Dr. Khaula Murtadha’s course, “Leadership for Urban School-Community Relationships (A510).” The focus of the course was to understand the tools my classmates and I needed to become community-engaged school leaders who work to best serve the academic and social interest and development of… Read more »
The Differently Abled, Conflict, and Parental Involvement
By Kyle Huskins, Guest Contributor People who are differently abled are in our society and they are in our school systems. These are people and children that are often forgotten, hidden, and are interacted with from an approach of deficit thinking. Culturally being “disabled” can take on its own connotations in varying cultures. In regards… Read more »
Critical Awareness for Equitable School Administration: Discipline
Lisa Clouse, Guest Contributor Einstein once said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Research has often revealed issues in education grounded in history and exlusion that would benefit from change and, in essence, avoid the insanity of ineffective practice. This applies to many aspects of education… Read more »
Principals as Community Leaders
By Robin G. Jackson, Guest Contributor “What sense does it make to try to reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or collapse?” (Warren, 2005, p. 133). Schools and their immediate community are inextricably linked in many ways. In addition to there being youth and families represented within the school, and property taxes… Read more »
“Cyndi Lauper had it right…your true colors are why I love you”
By Brandon Randall, Guest Contributor Listen up White people, this one is for you. I’m sure that whether it was in a classroom, a PTA meeting, or during professional development, we have all heard another White person say “oh, I don’t see color” or “I don’t care if you’re black, white, blue, or purple,” or… Read more »
Community Schools and its Role in Public Health
Linda Langford, Guest Contributor As a mother of three, I am always in search of ways to multi-task or as my 85 year-old mother says, “Kill two birds with one stone.” Resources are always limited so whenever we can accomplish two goals while using the same resource, it is a definite checkmark in the “Win” column. … Read more »
For the Public Good: University-Community Partnerships
By Idalia Wilmoth, Guest Contributor “Partnerships do not simply deal with our responsibilities to the community or with new challenges of making knowledge relevant. They make us confront questions about the nature of expertise, about disciplinary allegiances, about reward systems, about local applications versus national prominence, and about the uneasy relationship that urban universities maintain… Read more »