Leadership in Turbulent Times

Henry Tran is an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policies. Tran is the editor of the Journal of Education Human Resources, the Director of the Talent Centered Education Leadership Initiative and Co-director of the Center for Innovation and Inclusion in Higher Education.Gaëtane Jean-Marie is Dean of the College of Education at Rowan University. Jean-Marie’s research focuses on educational equity & social justice in P–12 schools, women and leadership in P-20 system, and leadership development and preparation in a global context.

• Prologue; Henry Tran and Gaëtane Jean-Marie Chapter 1. LGBT Educators’ Perceptions of School Climate Across a Decade and Implications for School and District Leaders; Tiffany Wright and Nancy Smith Chapter 2. Did You Really Feel You Needed to Tell Us?”: Looking for Leadership in all the Queer Places; Raymond A. Lauk Chapter 3. The Way I See It: Segregation, Pre-Brown and Desegregation, Post-Brown in an Atlanta School; Sheryl Croft Chapter 4. A Psychology of Working Perspective on Women of Color K-12 Educational Leaders’ Work Experiences; DorisAnn McGinnis, Jae Young Kim, Ain Grooms, Duhita Mahatmya, and Ebonee Johnson Chapter 5. Feminista Leaders: Testimonios of Aspiring Superintendents in Texas; Dessynie Edwards, Tina Garcia, Monica M. Muñoz, Teresa Silva, and Juan Manuel Niño Chapter 6. Mending Fractured Pieces: Overcoming the Barriers for Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention of Black Women Superintendents; Francemise S. Kingsberry and Gaёtane Jean-Marie Chapter 7. Keeping Patriarchy in Place: Mentoring to Keep the Pipeline Status Quo; Sarah Margaret Odell Chapter 8. Transforming the Education Workplace for Diversity and Inclusion through Teaming; R. Lennon Audrain and Carole G. Basile Chapter 9. Towards a more inclusive generation: The Employment of Teachers with Physical Disabilities; Noa Tal-Alon Chapter 10. Cultivating Humanized and Inclusive Workplaces with Talent-centered Education Leadership; Henry Tran and Zach Jenkins Epilogue; Lorri J. Santamaría

The world’s space in which we find ourselves today sometimes looks like what some of us familiar with the episodes of Stranger Things have seen in the Upside Down. In that discernable space, we see those who wish to hold or maintain power, spewing monstrous and persuasive provocations of unfair advantages, partisan rivalries, exclusive competence, and antagonistic relationships with disregard for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Often we wait on that someone to lead us to a Right-side Up portal, one that is a stable, bright, maintained, and sustained—one in which we can contemplate fair advantages, respectful rivalries, comprehensive excellence,and positive relationships with high regard for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Indeed, Editors Henry Tran and Gaëtane Jean-Marie have captured the turbulent Upside Down within the pages of their latest book. They, and the authors, represent that collective someone who points scholars and practitioners in the education workplace toward the contemplation of the Right-side Up portal.