Insights & Comments by https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf Your thoughts and connections en-us 2020-03-26 21:44:20 UTC 2020-04-08 23:12:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d4.png Questions, thoughts and comments https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/479237092 Please post a question or your insights from one of reading for this week focusing on the role of spirituality/ethics and leaderhip in education.

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for the urban school". (p. 658)
 
What strategies do you think we can use to infuse our spirituality and create critically reflective communities in our role as educational leaders?
]]> 2020-04-07 00:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/495894741 Question (s)/ Thoughts https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/497696881 This weeks readings brought up thoughts of how HBCUs can be used as a model for schools in urban education and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI). That is, where there is a reconstruction process in decolonizing the curriculum and practices that maintain western ways of knowing and white supremacy. 
I recently read "Becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution", by Dr. Gina A. Garcia. In this book, she discusses the ways in which minoritized institutions (at the post secondary level) are devalued compared to Historically white and predominately white institutions. Moreover, how there is no model for Hispanic Serving Institutions. As such, post secondary institutions continue to replicate PWI & HSI. These institutions then devalue and ignore the spiritual, cultural, linguistic ways of knowing, further impacting sense of belonging for students of color.
Thus, my question is... How can we restructure not only minoritized schools and institutions to better serve its students, but also challenge PWI & HSI?  How can we centralize "radical practices grounded in a critical spirituality" within and  across K-20 institutions?  

Within a smaller context, how can we transform our own department (at the graduate level) to centralize "radical practices grounded in a critical spirituality"?

"Urban schools are in need of reconstruction. Leaders of these schools must adopt more radical practices grounded in a critical spirituality in order for these schools to be transformed" (Dantley, 2005, p. 671)

"Current leadership challenges around diversity, community engagement, globalization, and others reflect issues that have ethical dimensions and require leaders to have experience with ethical decision making"     (Kezar, Carducci, & Contreras-McGavin, p. 137-138)]]> 2020-04-07 22:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/497696881 What really intrigued me from the HBCU article was that from my understanding a call to bring the black community back to HBCUs so they can get the development and support needed in order to evolve into the leaders that they are meant to be https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/499610581 2020-04-08 22:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/499610581 Dantley https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/499612543 The Dantley article made me rethink about how I expressed my own spirituality in the context I work in. It was eye opening to read "Some social constructivist scholars view leadership itself as an attempt by certain individuals to frame and define reality, which can become a form of social control (Chemers, 1997)."

I also thought the portion of the article that talked about how leaders that have large multicultural students that they serve have to learn to be okay leading differently than others perceive as traditional. Even if that means through their spirituality.]]> 2020-04-08 22:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/maryluz_hoyos/grf5eoneiruf/wish/499612543