By Yuri Smith, Guest Contributor I recently had the pleasure of reading an article titled, “Urban” Schooling and “Urban” Families: The Role of Context and Place,” by Vivian L. Gadsden1 and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román. The article was in the Urban Education 2017, Vol. 52(4) 431–459. This article caught my attention because I grew up in… Read more »
Month: May 2018
Success Only Comes Before Work in the Dictionary
By Ranesha Lee, Guest Contributor Leadership has been defined as a role to lead transformative change of a school. The function of effective leadership is to provide direction and exercise influence (Leithwood, K.A. & Riehl C. 2003). Providing a school direction is imperative, but integrating with the community is just as vital. The community’s culture,… Read more »
Building School-Family Relationships
By Brian Collins, Guest Contributor During the Spring of 2018, I took Dr. Khaula Murtadha’s course, “Leadership for Urban School-Community Relationships (A510).” The focus of the course was to understand the tools my classmates and I needed to become community-engaged school leaders who work to best serve the academic and social interest and development of… Read more »