Educational and Community Leadership: Unrealized Synergies for Equitable Parent-Family-School Collaboration

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Title: Educational and Community Leadership: Unrealized Synergies for Equitable Parent-Family-School Collaboration
Abstract/Description: This chapter examines the role of formal educational leadership practice in collective, community-based family engagement initiatives. The term “formal” leader refers to individuals with positions of formal authority, such as principals, vice principals, or district administrators. The chapter provides a brief summary of research that addresses both the importance of leaders in fostering more equitable forms of family engagement and the constraints they often impose on it. It focuses on a mixed-methods study designed to understand how school leadership for engagement in the context of parent organizing impacted parent-school relations in one district. The findings from the study suggest that schools with a combination of high organizing and leadership for partnering had the most positive parent-school climates. The chapter closes with suggestions for promising directions for practices and research to support principals and systems leaders in engaging families in co-design work as a process of reciprocal learning.
Author/creator: Ishimaru, Ann M.
Date: 2019
In publication: The Wiley Handbook of Family, School, and Community Relationships in Education
Editor: Sheldon, Steven B.; Turner-Vorbeck, Tammy A.
Pages: 489-509
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept: Parent-Family-School Collaboration; Equity; Family/Community Leadership; Educational Justice
Featured case/project: Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality (SKCE); Salem‐Keizer School District
Primary national context: United States
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
DOI: 10.1002/9781119083054.ch23
URL: Chapter Webpage (via Wiley Online Library)
Citation: Ishimaru, A. M. (2019). Educational and Community Leadership. In The Wiley Handbook of Family, School, and Community Relationships in Education (pp. 489–509). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119083054.ch23

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