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Publication Date: 2020
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Flux Leadership: Leading for Justice and Peace in & beyond COVID-19
Ravitch, Sharon M.
Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, v18 n1 Fall 2020
In this twin pandemic moment, educational leaders face increasing pressure to assume a transformative leadership stance committed to racial justice, wherein curriculum, pedagogy, policies, norms, and mindsets are critically appraised and transformed into a new normative state of anti-racism. Flux leadership is a framework for equitable, responsive, and agile leadership in this moment of ongoing, complex, multi-faceted change. Flux leadership creates the conditions for flux pedagogy through taking an inquiry and justice-focused leadership stance. The primary dimensions of flux leadership are: (1) Radical Growth Mindset; (2) Distributed Wisdom Approach; (3) Leading from an Inquiry Stance (4) Trauma-informed Leadership; (5) Radical Compassion and Radical Self-Care; (6) Responsive and Humanizing Leadership; (7) Leader Critical Pedagogy; (8) Racial Literacy; (9) Brave Space Leadership; and (10) Emotional Imagination and Inner-Resource Cultivation. Each dimension of flux leadership is discussed in the context of COVID-19 and movement for racial equality, justice, and peace. Attached to each concept framing are suggested practices for transforming schools, teams, and classrooms into brave space communities of practice--including online--during this time of radical flux, a time in which students need affirming and justice-generating learning spaces.
Descriptors: Peace, COVID-19, Pandemics, Transformational Leadership, Social Justice, Critical Theory, Leadership Styles, Cognitive Structures, Participative Decision Making, Inquiry, Trauma, Altruism, Self Concept, Self Management, Race
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. e-mail: journal@gse.upenn.edu; Web site: https://urbanedjournal.gse.upenn.edu
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