https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq EOL 568: Diversity, Leadership, & Policy en-us 2019-04-03 03:47:02 UTC 2019-04-03 04:49:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347911639 "Leadership for social justice investigates and poses solutions for issues that generate and reproduce social inequities." 

"Leaders for social justice take the moral position to critically deconstruct as well as reconstruct schools in a fashion that demands schools are sites for the equitable treatment of all students."
(Danley and Tillman, 2010)


]]> 2019-04-03 03:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347911639 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347912253 The active and critical pursuit of justice and equity for all - including the critical analysis of existing structures, policies, procedures, and norms and their impact on marginalizing or othering specific demographics AND the replacement of oppressive systems with truly equitable alternatives.

This forces us to go deeper than just identifying the problem, it requires intense, uncomfortable labor to uncover the "why" behind the "what" and also forces us to use all available resources (history, sociology, psychology, economics, etc.) to create a holistic, full, and accurate understanding of "how" we got here.]]> 2019-04-03 03:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347912253 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347912935 "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'" - The Honorable Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]> 2019-04-03 04:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347912935 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347913523 "If you want to change the content of the music, change the environment of the artist and he won't have such negative things to say." - T.I. [Undisputed King of the South]]]> 2019-04-03 04:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347913523 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347913975 2019-04-03 04:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347913975 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347915176 "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 proportionately distributed across ALL groupings in the school, and when one dimension of identity does not directly correlate with the undesirable aspects of schooling."
(Scanlan and Theoharis, 2015)]]> 2019-04-03 04:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347915176 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347916038 2019-04-03 04:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347916038 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347916787 "One thing about the men that's controlling the pen that write history, they always seem to white-out they sins." -  J. Cole]]> 2019-04-03 04:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347916787 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347917119 "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." -  Maya Angelou]]> 2019-04-03 04:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347917119 mustafa_abdullahjr https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347917958 "Transformative educational leadership is not the domain of school administrators alone; families, teachers, students, and other school community members can and should be part of the process." 
(Cooper, 2009)]]> 2019-04-03 04:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mustafa_abdullahjr/zttjgipzbxq/wish/347917958