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School Leadership for Authentic Family and Community Partnerships
School leaders are increasingly called upon to pursue meaningful partnerships with families and community groups, yet many leaders are unprepared to meet the challenges of family and community partnerships, to cross cultural boundaries, or to be accountable to the community. This book brings together research perspectives that intersect the fields of leadership and partnerships to inform and inspire new approaches that strive toward more authentic collaboration.
Publics for Public Schools
This book articulates a path for a renewed conception of-and commitment to-the public dimensions of schooling. It is an interdisciplinary book of philosophy and politics, written for educational leaders working in or on behalf of public schooling. Publics for Public Schools introduces a fresh view on how educational leaders might view the public ideal. In this conception of public work and leadership, educational leaders do not work with the public but help to achieve publics for public schools. The demos, or "the people" in the case of democratic governance of schools, mobilize around particular problems related to young people and schooling; they are best understood not as "the public" but as multiple publics. This book provides a conception of public life and of public leadership that can enable educational leaders of all types to help achieve publics for their schools.
Hope for Justice and Power
Texas-based affiliates in the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)—built on ideas, principles, and actions from the late Saul Alinsky—offer a strong, mature organizing model compared with other community organizations in the state and the United States as a whole. IAF affiliates’ members consist of institutions, most of them faith-based congregations and synagogues. Local volunteer leaders in those institutions work together in relationships of trust that draw strength, unity, and purpose from IAF principles and the social-justice precepts of their different faiths. In Hope for Justice and Power, Kathleen Staudt examines the twenty-first-century activities of the Texas IAF in multiple cit...
Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California
The school-aged population of the United States has become more racially and ethnically diverse in recent decades, but its public schools have become significantly less integrated. In California, nearly half of the state's Latino youth attend intensely-segregated minority schools. Apart from shifts in law and educational policy at the federal level, this gradual resegregation is propelled in part by grassroots efforts led predominantly by white, middle-class residential communities that campaign to reorganize districts and establish ethnically separate neighborhood schools. Despite protests that such campaigns are not racially, culturally, or socioeconomically motivated, the outcomes of thes...
Public Engagement for Public Education
This volume examines the ways youth, parents, community members, and civic leaders join forces to improve public education.
Navigating Social Justice
A highly accessible and easily adaptable conceptual framework that helps educational leaders plan, leverage, and sustain change as they create more equitable schools. In Navigating Social Justice, Martin Scanlan introduces a comprehensive social justice schema that melds organizational learning with leading for equity. Scanlan distills wisdom gleaned from the experiences of a variety of educational professionals as well as from his own more than three decades of work in equity-focused partnership with elementary schools. Scanlan’s schema brings together five dimensions—inclusivity, communities of practice, critical formation, social ecosystems, and practical wisdom—that work together h...
Handbook on Youth Activism
This dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.
The Adventures of William Walkingstick
William Walkingstick stumbles upon a magical land that includes an enchanted forest, woodsmen, and faeries. The first person he meets is a gentle giant, Eril, who wants to introduce him to his town. But instead of fellow giants, he points to his hat, which William discovers includes a miniature community. Eril explains that the hat town's "bitties" make tasty treats called doppums, and there are some other giants with such hats, too. These giants protect the bitties and help them see the world--enjoying the doppums in return. But the giants and bitties must always be on the lookout for Egad the Terrible, who steals hat towns so he can sell the doppums at his own market. William cannot stand by without doing anything: He seeks to rescue the hat towns that have been stolen. With a little help from Eril, a lion-hearted bittie, a wayward faerie, and other new friends, William seeks to overcome his fears. He'll need to discover the true meaning of bravery to have any chance of saving the bitties.
Rethinking Education and Poverty
How can new ways of thinking about education improve the lives of poor students? In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of marginalized individuals. In remarkably nuanced ways, this volume examines education's role as both a possible factor in perpetuating—and a tool for alleviating—entrenched poverty. Education has long been seen as a way out of poverty. Some critics, however, argue that educationa...
