Central District Office Leadership for Diversity and Equity: Constraints and Opportunities for Policy Intermediaries

This article reports the findings of a multiyear investigation of school district central office directors of diversity and equity in Minnesota, who play an important role in school desegregation/integration policy implementation. Ethnographic and survey data were collected to examine a range of lea...

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Published inJournal of school leadership Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 521 - 552
Main Author Mattheis, Allison
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2017
Sage Publications, Inc
Subjects
Administrator Attitudes
Case Studies
Central Office Administrators
Community Needs
Diversity
Educational Policy
Elementary Secondary Education
Equal Education
Ethnography
Forecasts and trends
Instructional Leadership
Laws, regulations and rules
Powers and duties
Program Development
Racial Integration
School Desegregation
School Districts
Segregation in education
Social Integration
Social Justice
State Aid
Teacher Attitudes
Minnesota
Sociocultural Policy Analysis
Diversity and Equity
Boundary-Spanning
Central District Office Administration
School Desegregation
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Summary:This article reports the findings of a multiyear investigation of school district central office directors of diversity and equity in Minnesota, who play an important role in school desegregation/integration policy implementation. Ethnographic and survey data were collected to examine a range of leadership activities and perspectives in communities across the state that received state funding for integration programming. In this article, I present findings that illustrate the role of integration leaders as boundary-spanning policy intermediaries who navigate competing frames of meaning about the purpose and value of diversity in learning environments. Learning from these school district leaders’ focus on educational equity in the context of changing demographics offers opportunities to address local community needs more directly.
ISSN:1052-6846
2631-9659
DOI:10.1177/105268461702700403