Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders: Empowering Schools and Communities

Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders is a valuable resource for educational leaders that provides an equity-minded process for intentional entry planning, setting the stage for sustainable change within organizations. It highlights how the entry of a new leader or the pivot of an established one can garner the insight, trust, and commitment needed for positive, equitable transformation. The book offers a flexible framework for leadership entry that is customized to fit the complex social, political, and economic demands of a given organization and community, and prepares leaders to address structural and systemic racism.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 25 October 2022
Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group

Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders is a crucial resource for educational leaders, providing an equity-minded process for intentional entry planning that sets the stage for sustainable change within organizations. In this practitioner-focused and action-oriented work, Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer consolidate their extensive experience centering equity in leadership. They affirm that the entry of a new leader, or the pivot of an established one, affords an unparalleled opportunity to garner the insight, trust, and commitment that will establish a basis for positive, equitable transformation within a system.

This essential work provides a flexible framework for leadership entry that is customized to fit the complex social, political, and economic demands of a given organization and the community it serves. It highlights how such an approach prepares leaders to begin addressing one of the most entrenched and persistent issues in education: structural and systemic racism.

Appealing to community and school leadership at all levels—superintendents, principals, project managers, and nonprofit partners, among others—the book presents seven components needed to enact an entry plan, from understanding context to establishing transparency to galvanizing partners for action. Through case studies and interviews, the authors explore the key skills necessary for each component. They then offer a wide range of supplementary tools and exercises to help leaders begin or recast their tenures and advance their agendas successfully.

The process outlined here encourages readers to reflect, take calculated risks, and chart new paths. This book gives leaders the means to make necessary, meaningful progress.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781682537657