https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw EOL 568 Diversity, Leadership & Policy en-us 2019-03-25 03:08:35 UTC 2023-09-09 10:18:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/344664779 2019-03-25 03:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/344664779 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/344665567 "Leaders must be decisive. Leaders must be forceful. Leaders must have vision. Leaders must successfully manipulate events and people, so that vision becomes reality. Leaders, in other words, must lead" (Sergiovanni, 2000). ]]> 2019-03-25 03:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/344665567 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/344666085 Dantley & Tillman (2010) call for educational leaders for social justice to practice moral outrage at the persistence... of homelessness, hunger, poverty..." (p.23). Dr. West embodies this and takes his advocacy to the forefront, fearlessly. I believe an educational leader for social justice calls out injustices, is genuinely interested in serving its constituents, acknowledges others' feelings, knows when to follow and when to lead, and builds up students and staff alike to be agents of change.]]> 2019-03-25 03:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/344666085 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346796713 I believe an educational leader for social justice must be aware of, critiquing, and working on creating change in ALL aspects of their school. They are also committed to empowering all aspects of the school: social, cultural, and political.

Scanlan & Theoharis (2015) discuss the idea of leaders playing "a role in creating and maintaining schools that are inclusive of multiple areas of differences and aspects of diversity at the same time." It is not enough to lead from one's office. One must get out into the classrooms, ensuring that the curri Schools that support and empower ALL students have higher academic achievement (Kelsey et. al, 2015).]]> 2019-03-30 16:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346796713 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346796973 Dantley & Tillman (2010) define leadership for social justice as interrogating the policies and procedures that shape schools and at the same time perpetuates social inequality and marginalization due to race, class, gender, and other markers of difference. Koschorek & Slattery (2010) add to this definition by saying that educational leaders for social justice should be adamantly providing building-specific moral training in "empathy, respect, and inclusion,  for all school students."]]> 2019-03-30 17:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346796973 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346797023 2019-03-30 17:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346797023 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346797127 On March 27th, 2019, I had the privilege of visiting the National Civil Rights Museum located at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. It is a powerful hands-on museum that provides visitors with the ability to be part of history. 

I, along with other visitors, left wondering how to create change in schools, society, and politically so ALL people feel as if they matter. 

My personal definition of Leadership for Social Justice is leading with love in a manner that strives towards fair and equitable treatment of ALL students - physically, emotionally, and academically.  

]]> 2019-03-30 17:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346797127 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346799213 An educational leader for social justice focuses on ALL students within their school building, and allows the issues of the building's minority to take over the majority when those issues require more attention, love, and commitment in order for ALL students to thrive. 

How to address these issues may be a challenge for educators, but the National Education Association (NEA) has created a website with videos and tools to assist with advocating for all students. Join the NEA's EdJustice League!]]> 2019-03-30 17:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346799213 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346799646 An educational leader for social justice is continuously learning and acting upon perceived injustices within his school building and community. They advocate for and strive to empower all students, even if they themselves do not benefit.

So many people tend to have a blind eye on injustices within schools if the issue does not directly impact them. There is a perceived fear of talking about controversial subjects like homosexuality and the entrenched homophobia that drives our educational systems (Koschoreck & Tooms, 2009). Other topics that people are afraid to speak about within the education world, in my experience, have been of implicit and explicit biases regarding immigration status, racism, language attainment, political party alignment and views, and living in poverty. These issues are kept "hush hush," having the social worker or psychologist "deal" with the students' issue. ]]> 2019-03-30 17:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346799646 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346800821 2019-03-30 17:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346800821 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346800835 2019-03-30 17:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346800835 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346963613 2019-03-31 22:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346963613 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346963645 2019-03-31 22:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346963645 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346971692 An educational leader for social justice has a moral obligation to ensure culturally-inclusive and representative curriculum, staff, and overall mindset/ambiance of their buildings by "invest[ing] time to effectively communicate a vision for [ongoing] change, build[ing] relationships and trust, and empowering the people who in the end will be doing the lion's share of the work necessary to see the change through" (Welton et al., 2018).

This can be done by investing in being a scholar of social justice issues within one's building and community, seeking out community partnerships and connections, and being active in social justice issues even if it means being courageous and having difficult conversations. Tupac discusses this idea in the following video, how just because you won't be the ultimate driver of change does not mean that we shouldn't strive for social justice. Sometimes, our actions against resistance can spark the want for change within others.


]]> 2019-03-31 23:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346971692 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346972452 Equity = Everyone gets what they need based on their own situation.]]> 2019-03-31 23:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346972452 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346973137 The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has identified that at the front and center of education is the need to address in a meaningful way the issues of race, privilege, prejudice, and power. ]]> 2019-03-31 23:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346973137 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346973704 2019-03-31 23:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346973704 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346974100 I was the first in my family to graduate a four-year university and a graduate school. I grew up low-income. I speak Spanish and English. I was enrolled in both bilingual education in my early years and was enrolled in the gifted program from 2nd grade to senior year of high school. I am a first-generation Mexican-American. I am a heterosexual female.

]]> 2019-03-31 23:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346974100 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346975248 2019-04-01 00:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/346975248 isaneida https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/348182591 2019-04-03 17:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/isaneida/mfjnqcgpb6tw/wish/348182591