Women Navigating Educational Leadership

This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women''s experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges. The respondents possess different educational backgrounds, reflect different ethnic, racial and age groups, and inhabit varied roles and organizations, from public school districts, charter school networks, graduate schools of education, and partner/support organizations. Jana L. Carlisle responds to the underrepresentation of women in education leadership positions and the complicated and veiled routes women must take to ascend to leadership, and proposes the most applicable models, standards, strategies, and supports vital to women educational leaders.>

Préface
Contextualizes and synthesizes explanations about and success strategies for women educational leaders.

Contenu
Series Editors' Foreword Preface 1. Introductiona Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: What's This All About? 2. Lean In or Shove Off: Leadership Models and Stories 3. What We Stand For: Purpose, Identity, and Power 4. Hummingbird: Navigating Challenges to Women's Leadership 5. Yellow Brick Road: Leadership Routes and Areas of Knowledge 6. The Dance: Standards and Dispositions for Women Educational Leaders 7. Still Standing: Strategies and Supports Appendices A: List of Respondents B: List of Abbreviations C: Elements to Support an Audit of Leadership Development Capacity Notes References Index