Community-Centered School Leadership: Promising Aperturas During COVID-19

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Leticia Alvarez-Gutiérrez, University of Utah; Taeyeon Kim, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Sonny Partola, University of Utah; Paul J. Kuttner, University of Utah; Amadou Niang, Salt Lake City School District; Alma Yanagui, University of Utah; Laura Hernandez, Community Advocate Network; Gerardo R. López, Michigan State University; Jennifer Mayer-Glenn, University of Utah

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Project Citation: 

Alvarez-Gutiérrez, Leticia, Kim, Taeyeon, Partola, Sonny , Kuttner, Paul J., Niang, Amadou, Yanagui, Alma, … Mayer-Glenn, Jennifer . Community-Centered School Leadership: Promising Aperturas During COVID-19. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-03-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E164001V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We share school leaders’ perspectives on Zoom videos concerning the needs of immigrant and refugee families in Title 1 schools. In these videos, participants crafted and shared personal narratives about their leadership experiences during the COVID-19 era of education. Rooted in participatory design research methods, the process of designing these videos were both a research project and an intervention to assist families and school leaders to better understand each other. We present a close analysis of administrators’ perspectives and describe how our co-designed video methodology enabled participants to co-construct new meanings of school-community relationships during the pandemic through a radical care framework. We conceptualize these reimaginings as aperturas—cracks in the dominant family engagement paradigm that allow us to collectively work towards transformative ends which we term community-centered school leadership.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms aperturas; COVID-19; family-school relationships; radical care; school leadership; solidarity driven co-des
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States of America
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2020 – 2020 (Spring 2020 through Winter 2020)
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2020 – 2020 (Spring 2020 through Winter 2020)
Universe:  View help for Universe Educational Leaders

School Leaders
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) video: film, animation, etc.
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes In the videos, participants crafted messages to share with one another, based on their experiences during distance learning and their visions for improving COVID-era education. The process of designing these videos were both a research project and an intervention to help families, educators and school leaders learn from one another, and were rooted in participatory design research methods (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016; Ishimaru et al., 2019). The videos were shared through social media and websites in order to spark new conversations and promote creative educational possibilities during the COVID-era education

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