Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 56 Issue 5

Understanding and improving urban secondary schools: the role of individual and collective agency

Protests and possibilities: reframing the agenda for urban secondary schools

What American urban secondary schools could be: an international perspective

Student voice in secondary schools: the possibility for deeper change

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of student voice in secondary school reform.

The emotional ecology of school improvement culture: Charged meanings and common moral purpose

The purpose of this paper is to understand how high-performing schools develop and sustain improvement culture. While school culture has consistently been identified as an…

Talk it (Racism) out: race talk and organizational learning

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether race-specific language use can advance organizational learning about the racialized nature of school problems. The study…

“I’m supposed to feel like this is my home”: Testing terms of sociopolitical inclusion in an inner-ring suburban high school

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the exercise of administrative authority to suspend the Muslim Student Association (MSA), an affinity group at a suburban Midwestern…

Humanizing school communities: Culturally responsive leadership in the shaping of curriculum and instruction

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of instructional leaders in promoting culturally responsive practice in ways that make schooling more inclusive and humanizing for…

Re-imagining turnaround: families and communities leading educational justice

The purpose of this paper is to deepen the understanding of how minoritized families and communities contribute to equity-focused school change, not as individual consumers or…

Broken bridges: a social network perspective on urban high school leadership

Secondary school leadership provides multiple challenges in terms of the diversity of tasks, multiple demands on time, balancing communities and attending to instructional…