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Preparing educational leaders with the skills needed for social justice leadership is critical for ensuring more equitable schools. Engaging in this work requires preparation programs to invest in redesign efforts that help aspiring leaders better understand how systems of power and oppression impact educational opportunities for students. Programs must also build candidates’ capacity for taking action to disrupt the cycles that perpetuate inequity. This chapter focuses on providing examples and strategies from the fields of practice, scholarship, and practice-based research to identify ways in which educational leadership and administration preparation programs can reorient curriculum, learning experiences, and structure to promote this learning. A framework for promoting systemwide coherence is utilized to frame the relationship among program curriculum, learning experiences, and stakeholder engagement. The discussion of social justice leadership design for principal and superintendent preparation programs incorporates strategies that may have value beyond the field of leadership preparation.
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Henry, W., Cobb, C. (2020). Social Justice Leadership Design. In: Mullen, C.A. (eds) Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29553-0_63-1
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