Leading the Transition Toward Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Schools
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Leading the Transition toward Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Schools brings together powerful first-person narratives and the latest educational research to explore how educational leaders pursue culturally responsive and sustaining practices that can reshape K–12 education for the better.
This timely and essential volume highlights the work of school leaders, teacher leaders, district administrators, special education advocates, and external consultants from across the United States who are actively leading change in their communities. In sharing their stories, educational practitioners and their partners (researchers, consultants, community leaders) illuminate their personal motivations, the strategies attempted, and the challenges faced. Together, these voices offer a rich, multidimensional portrait of what it takes to create inclusive learning environments in K-12 schools.
Leading the Transition toward Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Schools offers insights for navigating systemic challenges with courage, care, and a commitment to justice. A vital resource for practitioners and students of educational leadership, this book moves the field further down the path toward schools where all students can thrive.
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Need for Research on Schools Becoming Culturally Responsive and Sustaining; Kristy Cooper Stein and Soon-young Oh
- PART 1 – LEADING CHANGE AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL
- Chapter 2. Possibilities Purged: Teacher Testimonials of the Trials and Tribulations of Trying for Change in a Mountain West Public High School; Nicole Wilson Steffes, Katherine Nitka, Aurora Torrejón, and Laura Nagle Cheney
- Chapter 3. Fighting Ghosts and Making Moves: A Journey of Leadership for Belonging; Brian A. Valentine
- Chapter 4. Leading from Culturally Responsive Vision: Advancing Cultural Responsivity through Community-Driven Graduate Portraits; Mary-Louise Leger, Karen Ikegami, Rick Jager, and Liyah Matari
- PART 2 – LEADING CHANGE FROM THE DISTRICT LEVEL
- Chapter 5. Cultural Responsivity, Abolition, and Special Education: Addressing the Intersections of Race, Community, and Disability; Kristin Vogel-Campbell
- Chapter 6. Si Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Implementing Sustaining Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instructional Practices; Sandra Montañez-Diodonet
- Chapter 7. When Mindset Meets Action: Merging Culturally Responsive Practice with Districtwide Programming; Beth Duzy
- PART 3 – LEADING CHANGE FROM OUTSIDE THE K-12 SYSTEM
- Chapter 8. Teacher Leadership as a Driver of Culturally Responsive School Improvement; Meredith L. Wronowski, Wesley L. C. Henry, and Bryan A. VanGronigen
- Chapter 9. Community Engagement as a Catalyst for Culturally Responsive Approaches to Education Reform; Andre’a J. Dorsey
- Chapter 10. Conclusion: New Ways Forward for Leading the Transition toward Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Schools; Kristy Cooper Stein
Kristy Cooper Stein is an associate professor of K-12 educational administration at Michigan State University.