Radical University-District Partnerships: A Framework for Preparing Justice-Focused School Leaders

The book Radical University-District Partnerships provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders and offers guidance for launching and sustaining such partnerships. It includes core pieces of LEADs leadership preparation curriculum and instruction that encourage new forms of leaders and leadership, such as strategic inquiry, multilingual-learner shadowing, and one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2024
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

Radical University-District Partnerships is a book that provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders, and how these partnerships can thrive. It offers details of one such partnership, Leadership Education for Anaheim Districts (LEAD), which incorporated high-impact practices for equity, self-knowledge, and system change. The text provides supports for launching a similar radical partnership, including converging goals, a student-centered theory of action, and key resources. It offers guidance for sustaining a radical partnership through the inevitable questions and conflicts that will arise, including coteaching of all content by university and district partners, and the mutual respect needed for successful joint work. The text includes core pieces of LEAD's leadership preparation curriculum and instruction that encourage new forms of leaders and leadership, including strategic inquiry, multilingual-learner shadowing, and one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

Radical University-District Partnerships is a call for universities and school districts to work together toward preparing educational leaders who will bring greater justice for all children. The book features a focus on preparing principals to lead schools in ways that change outcomes for historically underserved students (K–12). It provides a framework for radical partnerships that is horizontal, authentic, and engaged in justice. Chapters are coauthored by a team of university faculty, district administrators, and program graduates. Voices of program graduates share their experiences in LEAD and how it impacted their leadership learning. The book looks forward to next steps for practicing and theorizing, including ways to address systemic issues and promote equity.

The book provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders, and how these partnerships can thrive. It offers details of one such partnership, Leadership Education for Anaheim Districts (LEAD), which incorporated high-impact practices for equity, self-knowledge, and system change. The text provides supports for launching a similar radical partnership, including converging goals, a student-centered theory of action, and key resources. It offers guidance for sustaining a radical partnership through the inevitable questions and conflicts that will arise, including coteaching of all content by university and district partners, and the mutual respect needed for successful joint work. The text includes core pieces of LEAD's leadership preparation curriculum and instruction that encourage new forms of leaders and leadership, including strategic inquiry, multilingual-learner shadowing, and one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

Radical University-District Partnerships is a book that provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders, and how these partnerships can thrive. It offers details of one such partnership, Leadership Education for Anaheim Districts (LEAD), which incorporated high-impact practices for equity, self-knowledge, and system change. The text provides supports for launching a similar radical partnership, including converging goals, a student-centered theory of action, and key resources. It offers guidance for sustaining a radical partnership through the inevitable questions and conflicts that will arise, including coteaching of all content by university and district partners, and the mutual respect needed for successful joint work. The text includes core pieces of LEAD's leadership preparation curriculum and instruction that encourage new forms of leaders and leadership, including strategic inquiry, multilingual-learner shadowing, and one-on-one coaching and mentoring.

Weight: 338g
Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807769386