Creating an Opportunity for All Children to Learn
Author | : Mary Lourdes Ponce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 0438289773 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780438289772 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Download or read book Creating an Opportunity for All Children to Learn written by Mary Lourdes Ponce and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question that the demand on education and educational leaders has changed. We are no longer preparing students for high school education and discreet specific skills, but for career and college. As a result, there is no greater urgency than to understand the ways that principals understand their contributions to equitably educating ALL students and closing the opportunity gap. With this change, it is imperative that we understand more than ever the work of principals, who are second only to teachers, to affect student learning indirectly. Scholars have concluded that educational leadership research lacks focus and has lacked in connecting principals, equity and student learning. The purpose of this study is to take a step toward filling the gap in educational leadership research regarding principals and their process of leading for equity and learning for all students. Using qualitative methods, this study investigated how principals in their context, enact, ‘make sense’ of, and promote equity in their schools. Overall, the findings of this study indicate that principals have a limited conception of ‘equity’. This limited view provided for actions in schools through the use of only achievement data and resource distribution to enact equity. In addition, Principals did not feel comfortable leading conversations about equity. They perceived that the concept of equity had highly charged meanings or that their community could not develop a shared meaning for this concept. Therefore, principals will need support in learning highly skilled levels of facilitation to lead their community into new ways of thinking about equity for all students.