3rd Edition
Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools
The third edition of the best-selling Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools helps both practicing and aspiring school leaders deepen their knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create schools that best serve all students. This book helps readers sharpen their awareness of how students’ multiple dimensions of diversity intersect, as well as develop strategies for leading schools where students of all socioeconomic statuses, races, religions, gender and sexual identities, languages, and disabilities flourish. Leadership for Increasingly Diverse Schools provides school leaders with the theory, research, and practical guidance to foster teaching and learning environments that promote educational equity and excellence for all students.
Special features:
- Each chapter focuses on a specific dimension of diversity and discusses intersectionality across other areas of difference, including disability, language, race, socioeconomic status, sexual and gender identity, religion, and social ecosystems.
- Chapters synthesize literature, share practical strategies and tools, include school-level and district-level cases illustrating inclusive leadership, and provide extended learning opportunities.
- This new edition is updated throughout, including greater focus on strategies for readers’ professional development, expanded coverage of educational infrastructure, and discussion of current political context and discourse including anti-DEI movements.
- Online Support Material features additional resources, documents, and links to videos and podcasts described in the chapters, accessible at https://www.routledge.com/9781032901046
1. Introduction: Intersectionality in Educational Leadership
Martin Scanlan and George Theoharis
2. Inclusive Leadership and Disability
George Theoharis, Casey Woodfield, Sara Scribner, and Julie Causton
3. Inclusive Leadership and Poverty
Earl J. Edwards and Elianny C. Edwards
4. Inclusive Leadership and Race
Sonya Douglass, Roy Danovitch, Samantha Chung, Ann LoBue, and Christine Clark
5. Inclusive Leadership and Multilingual Learners
Elisa Serrano, Giselle Delcid, and Francesca López
6. Inclusive Leadership and LGBTQIA+ and Gender-Expansive Students
Mollie McQuillan, Judy A. Alston, Michael P. O’Malley, and Frank Hernandez
7. Inclusive Leadership and Religion
Joanne M. Marshall and Tyson E.J. Marsh
8. Inclusive Leadership Across Social Ecosystems
Martin Scanlan, Lauri Johnson, and Shaneé A. Washington
9. The Pitfalls and Promise of Equity Audits
Colleen A. Capper, Michelle D. Young, Elise Frattura, and Nasif Rogers
Appendix: Equity Audit Data Collection and Analysis
Biography
George Theoharis is Professor of Educational Leadership and Inclusive Elementary Education at Syracuse University, USA.
Martin Scanlan is Professor of Educational Leadership at Boston College, USA.
"Theoharis and Scanlan have assembled an impressive assemblage of experts in educational leadership and policy to offer conceptually rich, practically sound, research-based guidance for educational leaders...Regardless of where one is on their equity journey, this book offers the insights necessary to take your practice to the next level. The authors invite us to be a part of a community of educators who endeavor to truly make a difference in the lives of our students."
Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr., Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Colleen Capper, Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
