LEADERSHIP FOR INCREASINGLY DIVERSE SCHOOLS (Educational Leadership for Equity and Diversity)

Written for school leaders, Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools provides perspectives on educational leadership using the equity and diversity lenses. The focus is on the promotion of inclusive structures and processes to meet the needs of a student body that continues to grow more and more diverse. Its own stated goal is to develop school community capacity towards inclusively meeting student needs.The structure and layout of the book is easy to navigate. Each chapter provides discussion on a different facet of equity-based leadership covering all demographic areas and intersectionality. The editors have curated each chapter from a different author or authors that have extensive experience and background with the topic at hand. While there is naturally some overlap when creating a collection of chapters by different authors the flow of the content is minimally disrupted and builds a cohesive picture of equity driven leadership.Chapter discourse explicitly connects inclusive leadership to current educational issues such as disability, poverty, race, multilingual learners, LGBTQ students, gender, religion, and social frontiers. Because it is written for school leaders, content moves quickly from theoretical to practical and even ideological, challenging some commonly held educational beliefs, or myths, and providing guidance and direction. In addition to the written content in each chapter, the authors have included extended learning e-resources including TedTalks and other YouTube videos. The multi-media format for learning enhances the reader’s understanding of concepts from the actual viewpoints of the speakers. The book also offers a companion website for additional resources.Of particular note is the last chapter concerning the equity audit and the obligation of school leaders to not only conduct the audit to expose inequities within the structures of American education, but also to act on that knowledge, to confront and counteract those structural issues. This, the book contends, is the crux of the issue, to expand inclusive structures and disrupt those that protect privilege. The final chapter provides step by step guidelines to successfully conduct the audit complete with an appendix with additional information to assist with equity audit data collection and analysis.This book is highly recommended as an entry point for the beginning leader as well as for practicing leaders needing guidance in particular areas of equity.

This book is an easy read because it has current issues and solutions for what public schools are facing today.

Served the purpose.

This book is full of good stuff!