Leadership for Social Justice by Mary Ann Pitcher https://padlet.com/mapitcher1/8ynirecrhn2f My Philosophy - EOL 568 en-us 2019-03-30 18:24:28 UTC 2026-01-25 17:57:19 UTC hello@padlet.com Is creating a counternarrative working for equity and broader social change mapitcher1 https://padlet.com/mapitcher1/8ynirecrhn2f/wish/346806204
“Notions of promise, liberation, hope, empowerment, activism, risk, social justice, courage, or revolution do not automatically evoke images of educational leaders in charge of schools and systems, working within the dominant political and bureaucratic frameworks of the 21st century” (Shields), though I believe these are often the reasons educators decide to move into leadership positions. 

Leadership for social justice is about creating and living a counternarrative

Typically the espoused aims of schooling are to serve all students and to create learning environments that support all students, but the lived reality within schools/systems is ….The reality is that the system is working exactly as it was designed to work and that if we are authentically trying to meet the espoused aims then we must be about leadership for social justice. 


Dantley & Tillman offer multiple definitions and frameworks for leadership for social justice, including how “various forms of social justice praxis are operationalized in professional practice”. This work cannot be taken up in isolation (Scanlan & Theoharis) and yet few districts are structured to support this vision for social justice and the necessary professional learning communities for leaders to engage in this work. 
]]> 2019-03-30 18:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mapitcher1/8ynirecrhn2f/wish/346806204 Is about the collective good communities mapitcher1 https://padlet.com/mapitcher1/8ynirecrhn2f/wish/346806212 Typically the espoused aims of schooling are to serve all students but the reality within schools/systems is that the system is working exactly as it was designed to work and that if we are authentically trying to meet the espoused aims then we must be about leadership for social justice.

“Socially just schooling is evident when educational opportunities abound for all  students, when ambitious academic goals are held and met by all students, when all students and families are made to feel welcome in the school community, when students are proportionally distributed across all groupings in the school, and when one dimension of identity (such as one’s race or home language or gender or sexual orientation) does not directly correlate with undesirable aspects of schooling (such as being bullied, struggling academically, or dropping out of school).  

]]> 2019-03-30 18:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mapitcher1/8ynirecrhn2f/wish/346806212 Is being self-reflective mapitcher1 https://padlet.com/mapitcher1/8ynirecrhn2f/wish/346806214 “All meaningful and lasting change begins on the inside.” Without internal change, external changes will not hold."
-Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King


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