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"Community-based educational leadership—that which is immersed in urban life and committed to urban transformation can openly counter institutional and social structures that perpetuate injustice, exploitation, and violence. Armed with emic love and historical understanding, Freirean leadership engages oppression at its core without fear of professional repercussions."

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"While most school reforms seek to change students, student voice places students as agents in the reform process. Through active engagement in change, students see that they can be knowledge creators, not just receivers."

"Overall, substantive body of work exists suggesting that effective family/parent engagement is critical to schools ability to carry out the responsibility of educating children. Although best practice suggests parent engagement is a two-way directional relationship, the literature suggests that the one-way relationship that is often rooted in deficit perspective dominates parent engagement practices with less resourced as well as racially and ethnically diverse families."

"Show Highlights

• Difference Between Anti-Racist and Performative Wokeness

• Kindness is Already Practiced

• Risking Your Job for Anti-Racism

• Leading Anti-Racist Work

• Providing Representation of Everyone

• Reconstructing the School System"

"First, we found that the school leadership practices around Indigenous communities are imperial, colonizing, and vanquishing, and have destroyed or had irrevocable, negative impacts on the culture, epistemologies, knowledges, and self-determination of Indigenous peoples. Second, we identify five decolonizing Indigenous leadership practices that have been reported in Indigenous schools and communities throughout the world."

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" The current narrative around SEL is that students must manage and regulate themselves and their emotions, conform and constrict their identities, and not express their fullest, most authentic selves. As school districts begin to devise plans for back-to-school, we must re-examine how we talk about and teach SEL."

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