Leading for Equity with Critical Consciousness: How School Leaders Can Cultivate Awareness, Efficacy, and Critical Action

Lash, Cristina L.; Sanchez, Jafeth E.

doi:10.1080/00098655.2021.2007833

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“…School administrators can support the critical motivation/ political efficacy of special educators by including them in key decision-making processes (Lash & Sanchez, 2022). Special educators are intimately aware of how school and district policies impact their ability to support positive academic and transition outcomes for students of color with disabilities.…”

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“…For example, school administrators could support an educator-student collaborative project focused on analyzing school data on discrepancies in student outcomes by race and disability status and developing recommendations to improve outcomes for minoritized students. School administrators, then, could integrate these recommendations into their strategic plans (Lash & Sanchez, 2022;Seider & Graves, 2020). Supporting such initiatives not only supports critical action of special educators, but also promotes critical action and positive outcomes of students of color with disabilities.…”

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“…In this assignment we recommend that PSSEs critically evaluate special education legislation and interventions. A follow-up to this assignment would be to create a brief that outlines how special education legislation and interventions support or undermine the success of students of color with disabilities and to present this brief to their peers, program faculty, or in-service teachers and school administrators (Aloi & Bialka, 2023; Lash & Sanchez, 2022). Finally, we suggest that faculty embed advocacy-focused projects throughout coursework.…”

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Pulling the Lever: Supporting Critical Consciousness in Secondary Special Education and Transition

Sheftel,

Poppen,

Brown Ruiz

2023

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals

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Youth with disabilities encounter multiple systemic barriers to post-school success, including racism and discrimination. Critical consciousness is the foundation of culturally responsive and anti-racist work and supports self-determination and vocational outcomes expectations among marginalized youth. While secondary special educators are interested in learning more about culturally responsive practices such as critical consciousness, they lack institutional support and resources to implement these practices. In this article, we present an ecologically based conceptual framework of Critical Consciousness in Secondary Special Education and Transition (CCSSET) to demonstrate how special education teacher preparation programs and school administrators can leverage funding, laws, policies, and resources to support critical consciousness among teachers and students. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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Pulling the Lever: Supporting Critical Consciousness in Secondary Special Education and Transition

Sheftel,

Poppen,

Brown Ruiz

2023

Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals

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“…As evidenced by longitudinal research (Seider et al, 2020; Seider & Graves, 2020), critical consciousness interventions may take many forms that are suitable to the needs of the community, the cultural characteristics of students, and the structural supports available within the school. Additionally, strategies for school principals to enhance staff and student critical consciousness in the service of equity are presented by Lash and Sanchez (2022). Many of their recommendations can be adapted for school counselors such as promoting community-embedded exploration of occupations and pathways via service learning or YPAR projects, modeling how to have conversations about topics such as racism and systemic barriers, and fostering family awareness of career and education resources and avenues for advocacy and resistance of inequitable practices.…”

Section: Critical Consciousness In the Future Of Vocational Psycholog...mentioning

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Critical Consciousness in Vocational Psychology: A Vision for the Next Decade and Beyond

Cadenas

McWhirter

2022

Journal of Career Assessment

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We offer a vision for a vocational psychology that places a larger focus on critical consciousness (CC) to be more responsive to marginalized communities (e.g., immigrants, low-income workers, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color). CC describes how marginalized people analyze systems of oppression, act toward social justice, and become agentic and hopeful. In this article, we review extant theoretical frameworks that have laid a strong foundation for embedding critical consciousness in research, practice, education and training. We then offer suggestions for promoting critical consciousness within vocational psychology over the next decade. We highlight the promise of transformative, intersectional, and action research with and for marginalized communities; of career interventions that respond to oppression and liberation; and of training that prepares future vocational psychologists to engage in praxis in a complex world. We argue that a greater focus on CC is aligned with vocational psychology’s foundational social justice aspirations.

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“…However, school leaders can leverage the process of analyzing disaggregated data as an anti-racist practice to build the capacity of others in challenging deficit-based thinking and a culture of low expectations for marginalized students and students of color. (Lash & Sanchez, 2022)…”

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Countering the Conspiracy of Silence: Leveraging Race Talk and Data Dialogues as Equity Leaders Challenge Whiteness in Schools

Edeburn

Bagwell

Howell

2023

Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership

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While facilitating a data dialogue concerning racial opportunity gaps in an elementary school, Evelyn Nguyen, a preservice principal candidate, overheard a disturbing and racialized dialogue among third-grade teachers. Evelyn had to decide whether to move an uncomfortable and emotional discussion forward or segue to the next item on the agenda to manage her discomfort. The value and importance for school leaders to model anti-racist leadership by utilizing race talk while addressing whiteness, power, and positionality are key to the academic and social opportunities of racially minoritized students of color. This case explores equity-centered leadership and racial equity.

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Leading for Equity with Critical Consciousness: How School Leaders Can Cultivate Awareness, Efficacy, and Critical Action

Cited by 4 publications

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Pulling the Lever: Supporting Critical Consciousness in Secondary Special Education and Transition

Pulling the Lever: Supporting Critical Consciousness in Secondary Special Education and Transition

Critical Consciousness in Vocational Psychology: A Vision for the Next Decade and Beyond

Countering the Conspiracy of Silence: Leveraging Race Talk and Data Dialogues as Equity Leaders Challenge Whiteness in Schools

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