Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership

<p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Decoteau J. Irby’s life work focuses on creating and sustaining organizations that contribute to Black people’s self-determined well-being, development, and positive life outcomes. He is an Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is the author Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press) and the picture book Magical Black Tears: A Protest Story (Derute Consulting Cooperative).</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Parallels between live performance and leadership to overcome the plateaus of learning.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Relationships with mistakes and failure create more equitable schools for all our students.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Redefine mistakes to take the pressure off and create a better performance.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Strengthening the conditions of your school community requires an important commitment.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Create transformative experiences between a teacher, a student by connecting the learning process to how we facilitate learning. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Racial equity breakthroughs and how they act as indicators of progress.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Break from the status quo most schools are built around and stop celebrating false positives. </span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think that leaders should be really mindful to seek out coaching, to seek out opportunities to learn. I try to