Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Educational Leadership provides educational leaders with practical steps for implementing multicultural education into schools. Drawing from multicultural scholars like James Bank’s it equips educational leaders with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to ensure that schools provide all students with equal educational opportunities. Concepts such culturally responsive leadership, transformative leadership, and restorative justice are discussed throughout the book.

First, a look inside : educational leadership student perspectives on a social foundations course / Candace Thompson and Susan Catapono -- Rocky boats and rainbows : culturally responsive leadership from the margin : an -- Autoethnography / Ann E. Lopez -- Change your school, change the world : the role of school leaders in implementing -- School wide restorative justice and relational pedagogies / Martha Brown and Katherine Evans -- White high school administrators as racial advisors / Byron Davis -- Changing staff attitudes through leadership development and equity teams / Michelle Yvonne Szpara -- Building bridges or isolating families : when school policies conflict with cultural beliefs, values, and ways of knowing / María L. Gabriel -- Principals, school climate, and social justice : how state compliance with national initiatives may not be enough / Susan L. Dodd -- Learning from teachers: critically conscious educational leadership for engaging -- Diverse families in Title I schools / Cherrel Miller Dyce and Buffie Longmire-Avital.