Equity Leadership-Straddlers

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Overall, in this chapter I develop the elements of my identification of what I am calling equity leadership-straddlers. Again, I both build and extend on Carter’s (2006) work on cultural straddlers to my study of school leaders. Carter’s (2006) identified cultural straddlers as students of color and of low-SES who are able to both successfully navigate the school institution while with maintaining their own cultural identity. In this chapter, I identify and describe the five emerging elements that characterize a leadership-straddler position: (a) code-switching, (b) social interaction with adults (i.e., parents and teachers), (c) successful navigation of schooling, (d) conveyance of straddler skills to students, and (e) ethical wisdom. In particular,

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