Sharing Leadership Stories in Rural Education

Professor Simone White is Professor and Dean of the School of Education at RMIT, Australia. She is a leading expert in teacher education and professional learning, focusing on the best ways to prepare teachers for diverse contexts. Her research explores the fields of teacher education policy, teacher learning, professional experience and building university-school/community partnerships. Through her collective work, Simone aims to connect research, policy and practice in ways that bring together and break down traditional borders between academics, policy makers, communities and practitioners.Professor Jayne Downey, Montana State University, United States, serves as the Director of the Center for Research on Rural Education. Professor Downey has been an active leader and researcher in rural education for over 25 years. Her scholarship is focused on preparing teachers and counselors for rural schools and communities and improving outcomes rural students. Professor Downey is committed to engaging in research, scholarship and service which are intentionally attuned to the complex and unique realities and relationships of rural schools and communities—past, present, and future. She is a co-editor of ‘Rural Education Across the World’ and co-author of ‘Teaching in Rural Places: Thriving in Classrooms, Schools, and Communities’. She received the 2022 Career Achievement Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Rural Education SIG.Dr Melyssa Fuqua is a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Education. Her research explores how sporting clubs influence aspiration and participation of rural youth in tertiary education and work, and the club’s role in their wider community. Her research interests include rural youth pathways and careers education, community, and ruraling education research. Originally from Massachusetts, Melyssa was a F-12 teacher in rural Victoria for a decade before returning to higher education and research. Melyssa is the manager of the international Rural Education Research Student Network and is on the editorial team of the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education.

• .- INTRODUCTION.- 1. Place-Serving Leaders: Insights from Rural Leaders in Australia and the United States - Simone White, Jayne Downey, and Melyssa Fuqua.- LEADING RURALLY THROUGH CHANGING POLICY AND PERSPECTIVES.- 2. Rural Leaders and Education Policy: Innovative Practices for Political Engagement- Erin McHenry-Sorber, Jenny Seelig, Daniella Hall, and Sara Hartman.- 3. Threading the Needle: Rural Educational Leadership at a Time of Sociopolitical Crises and Growing Spatial Polarisation – Annie Maselli, Maraki Kebede, and Kai Schaff.- 4. Principal Leadership as Situated Ecology of Practices in a Diversifying Rural School - Margaret Kettle, Stephen Heimans, and Joanne Dargusch.- LEADING RURALLY WITH SCHOOLS AND SYSTEMS.- 5. Attracting, Supporting, and Retaining Principals in Rural Schools - Amanda Heffernan.- 6. Leading Schools in Rural Communities: In Search of Collaborative Leadership - Hobart Harmon and Jerry Johnson          .- 7. Partnership Building and Systems Alignment Leadership: The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Education Department as a Case for Liberating Sovereign Potential - Alex Red Corn and Carrie Whitlow.- 8. Leading “Survival Learning”: Rural Superintendent Leadership During COVID-19 - Catharine Biddle and Maria Frankland   .- LEADING RURALLY WITH COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES.- 9. Remote Educational Leadership: What’s Different? - John Guenther, Steve Corrie, Robyn Ober, and Sam Osborn       .- 10. Reciprocal Relationships within Rural Communities - Linday Hollingsworth and Jen Collins      .- 11. Land, Language, Culture, and Education; An Examination of Rurality from Where the Buffalo Roam- Sweeney Windchief and Elijah Hopkins .- 12. Leading for Reconciliation: Strategies for Decolonising Rural Educational Leadership- Alison Quin, Francis Bobonie-Harris, Shanelle Fiaalii, Preston Parter, and Helga Scott      .-  LEADING RURALLY INTO AND FOR THE FUTURE .- 13. Persisting through Unprecedented Crises - Jesse Longhurst and Ann Schulte            .- 14. Emerging Leadership in Rural Education Research: In the Schoolhouse and the Academy - Melyssa Fuqua.- 15. Examining the Challenges to Teaching and Leading Rural Education in an Elite Urban University Through the Lenses of a Theory of Recognition - Hernan Cuervo.- CONCLUSION.- 16. Leading Rurally in the Days Ahead: Shared Principles for Practice -Simone White, Jayne Downey, and Melyssa Fuqua.