ERIC Number: EJ1466040
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 33
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-161X
EISSN: EISSN-1552-3519
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"The Kids Can Handle It": A Culturally Responsive Case Study of Four Detracking School Leadership Teams
Educational Administration Quarterly, v61 n1 p71-103 2025
Purpose: This comparative case study focused on high schools in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia using the lens of Culturally Responsive School Leadership to investigate the actions of school leaders in implementing detracking and asks "How do school leaders' actions regarding detracking fit into the larger framework of Culturally Responsive School Leadership?" Research Methods: This study uses a qualitative comparative case study method involving interviews with leadership team members at detracking high schools. Findings: Leaders in all the schools explicitly demonstrated creating inclusive spaces, embracing community assets, and enacting culturally responsive instructional leaders. Leaders at three of the schools explicitly celebrated students' identities. Leaders at two of the schools suggested they engage in critical self-reflecting aimed at combating biases against minoritized students but did not explicitly mention this self-reflection. Implications for Researchers and Practitioners: Though emergent in nature, these findings add to our collective knowledge about practices in detracking schools that may be beneficial elsewhere and being to fill in gaps in our knowledge about specific detracking conditions over which school leaders have control. These findings also demonstrate a need for researchers, professors of leadership education, and policy makers to support school leaders in becoming culturally responsive and sustaining the practices at the heart of CRSL. Applying this framework allows for a rigorous discussion of leaders' specific actions along with avenues of detailed consideration for researchers, educators of future school leaders, and policy makers in a coherent manner to create and sustain schools that can serve all children well.
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, High School Students, Track System (Education), Comparative Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Minority Group Students, Social Bias, Metacognition, Educational Practices, Social Justice, Institutional Characteristics, Principals, Student Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York; Virginia; Pennsylvania; California (San Francisco)
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