IU Indiana Kids program Over the last year, mentors and staff at IU Northwest have grown a relationship with a student transitioning from high school to college. And that is exactly what the IU Indiana Kids program seeks to recreate. Program coordinator James Wallace first met the student as a high school senior last year…. Read more »
Student Success
IU South Bend had success in summer ’18 and is partnering with South Bend Cubs Foundation
IU Indiana Kids program A connection through baseball is helping grow a program meant for teens at IU South Bend. The IU Indiana Kids program is starting a new partnership with the South Bend Cubs Foundation and is recruiting the help of the IU South Bend baseball team to start an after-school program for students,… Read more »
What do we really mean when we use the word “Urban?”
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 »
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 »
The Differently Abled, Conflict, and Parental Involvement
By Kyle Huskins, Guest Contributor People who are differently abled are in our society and they are in our school systems. These are people and children that are often forgotten, hidden, and are interacted with from an approach of deficit thinking. Culturally being “disabled” can take on its own connotations in varying cultures. In regards… Read more »
Critical Awareness for Equitable School Administration: Discipline
Lisa Clouse, Guest Contributor Einstein once said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Research has often revealed issues in education grounded in history and exlusion that would benefit from change and, in essence, avoid the insanity of ineffective practice. This applies to many aspects of education… Read more »
What role should we as transformative leaders play?
By Andrea Wilburn, Guest Contributor So…we’ve made it to the end of the semester and we are armed with theories and concepts, and we have an arsenal of impressive words. However, what bothers me is who wrote the articles and how the ones in the field of education authored few to none of these highfaluting… Read more »