Principal Leadership for Racial Equity: A Field Guide for Developing Race Consciousness

by Candace Raskin, Melissa Krull, Antonia J. Felix

Enhance your capacity for antiracist leadership! The COVID 19 pandemic has illuminated deep-seated structural inequities in our schools and across society.  More than ever, education leaders are being challenged to take action to disrupt the institutional racism that undergirds many of our longstanding policies and practices. Our students are challenging us to step up and be antiracists who commit to the uncompromising belief all children can learn and deserve an exceptional education. With over 10 years of experience leading the Institute for Courageous Principal Leadership, the authors guide leaders as they expand their racial consciousness through self-reflection. They also provide the tools needed to counter implicit bias and resistance. Grounded in research, but written in practitioner-friendly language, this book ·         Focuses on systemic leadership and institutional failures as the source of predictable student outcomes ·         Leverages research and theory to create a process for principals to build racially equitable practices ·         Navigates the politics of leadership without compromising student achievement

248 pages, Paperback

Published April 5, 2021

Reviews

[Rebecca Thrush · Rating 4 out of 5]

4⭐️ This is the first book that I read for my graduate program and I wish I had read it earlier, in my undergraduate years. As a white woman who grew up in a white community and now teaches is a predominantly white district, I was unaware of the racial inequities that exist systemically and that are continued in education today - which was a hard fact to face. This book was very easy to comprehend and focused on the facts around individual racial consciousness and the impacts that our beliefs/implicit biases have on our students. I appreciate all of the opportunities for reflection built into the book and I know this will be one that I look back on in years to come.