1st Edition
Public School Equity Educational Leadership for Justice
Part I: Envisioning Equity
1 School Planning for Equity
2 Choosing an Organizational Structure Aligned With Your Leadership Style
3 Embedding Equity Within Organizational Practices
4 Developing School, Community, and Family Partnerships
Part II: Staffing for Equity
5 Limitations of Ethnic Matching and Multicultural Education
6 Identifying Equity-Minded Teachers
7 Welcoming New Teachers
Part III: Sustaining Equity
8 When Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) Aren't Enough
9 Integrating Equity into Teacher Evaluation
10 Improving Teacher Retention Through Career Advancement Opportunities
11 Conducting Schoolwide Equity As Assessments
Final Thoughts
Biography
Manya Whitaker is an educational psychologist and associate professor and chair of education at Colorado College, where she directs the faculty development center. She also consults with families and K–20 educators on equity issues. Dr. Whitaker resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
"Dr. Whitaker provides a road map that meets educational leaders, their teams, and staff where they are on their individual and collective journeys toward achieving educational equity."
Aaron J. Griffen, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DSST Public Schools
"Whitaker has constructed a powerhouse book that every leader in prekindergarten-12 schools should read. A resource about the intersectional nature of cognition and behavior, this book is transformative for the individual and the collective."
H. Richard Milner IV, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education, author of Start Where You Are but Don’t Stay There
"With this valuable book, Manya Whitaker illuminates the often deliberate and sometimes inadvertent violations of equity, and provides a handbook for creative and courageous resistance."
William Ayers, author of To Teach and About Becoming a Teacher
