This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women’s experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges. The respondents possess different educational backgrounds, reflect different ethnic, racial and age groups, and inhabit varied roles and organizations, from public school districts, charter school networks, graduate schools of education, and partner/support organizations. Jana L. Carlisle responds to the underrepresentation of women in education leadership positions and the complicated and veiled routes women must take to ascend to leadership, and proposes the most applicable models, standards, strategies, and supports vital to women educational leaders.
Jana L. Carlisle is Founder and Lead Consultant for Educational Support Consulting, USA.
Series Editors’ Foreword Preface 1. Introduction—a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: What’s This All About?2. Lean In or Shove Off: Leadership Models and Stories3. What We Stand For: Purpose, Identity, and Power4. Hummingbird: Navigating Challenges to Women’s Leadership5. Yellow Brick Road: Leadership Routes and Areas of Knowledge6. The Dance: Standards and Dispositions for Women Educational Leaders7. Still Standing: Strategies and SupportsAppendicesA: List of Respondents B: List of AbbreviationsC: Elements to Support an Audit of Leadership Development Capacity Notes References Index
This book is a thought-provoking exploration of the barriers women face in achieving leadership roles in education. The author not only highlights the challenges but also offers clear, research-based strategies for overcoming them. ... A valuable addition to the literature on leadership, especially for those interested in understanding and dismantling the structural inequities that persist in educational institutions.