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Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership
From Better Leaders Better Schools · Hosted by Daniel Bauer
Episode summary
In this episode of Better Leaders Better Schools: 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.
Original publisher description
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). Show Highlights Parallels between live performance and leadership to overcome the plateaus of learning. Relationships with mistakes and failure create more equitable schools for all our students. Redefine mistakes to take the pressure off and create a better performance. Strengthening the conditions of your school community requires an important commitment. Create transformative experiences between a teacher, a student by connecting the learning process to how we facilitate learning. Racial equity breakthroughs and how they act as indicators of progress. Break from the status quo most schools are built around and stop celebrating false positives. "I think that leaders should be really mindful to seek...