Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research is a peer reviewed open access online journal that publishes high-quality original papers. The scope of the journal is broad and encompassing, covering a range of research areas.
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VOL 10, NO 1 (2024)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: The Ubiquity Of Wars And The “Good Danger” Of Praxis Mahmoud Suleiman
Perceptions Of Formal And Nonformal Leaders On Cultural Proficiency In Educational Practice And Organizational Change Brooke Soles, Jaime E. Welborn, and Baramee Peper Anan
Unravelling Child Language Brokering For Health: Understanding The Complexities Behind Children’s Interpreting For Health Care Krissia Martinez, Marjorie Elaine, Marco A. Murillo, and Michael Rodriguez
Kicking It In California! Denise Ramirez and Amy Williams
Administrator And Teacher Experiences Implementing Restorative Practices: A Phenomenological Study Lervan Atticot and Brandy Kamm
Foreword: Under Attack And Counter Voices For Social Justice Mahmoud Suleiman and Gilberto Q. Conchas
Supported, Silenced, Subdued, Or Speaking Up? K12 Educators’ Experiences With The Conflict Campaign, 2021- 2022 Mica Pollock, with Reed Kendall, Erika Reece, Abdul-Rehman Issa, and Emilie Homan Brady
Freedom Dreaming Through Waking Nightmares: A Duoethnography Of Education Scholars Navigating Public Schooling As Parents Danielle Ligocki and Tim Monreal9
Lessons On Servingness From Mentoring Program Leaders At A Hispanic Serving Institution Rebecca Covarrubias, Giselle Laiduc, Katherine Quinteros, and Joseline Arreaga
Accelerate Ethnic Studies With “All Deliberate Speed!” Talisa Sullivan and Peter Flores
A Latina Leader’s Consejo: Get To Know Your People And Get Them On The Path Of Continuous Improvement Carmen Ponce Beck
Foreword: The Need for Shifts In Mindsets And Leadership Roles In PK-20 Schools And Communities: Challenges And Opportunities Mahmoud Suleiman and Gilberto Q. Conchas
Black Minds Matter: A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Persistent Underrepresentation Of Black Students In Gifted Education Programs Ashley S. Flynn
Applying A STEM Engagement Framework To Examine Short-Term Retention Of Latinx And Other Underrepresented Groups In An Undergraduate Stem Scholar Program Maria Javiera De Los Rios, Elyzza M. Aparicio, Hyun Ju Park, Leticia Oseguera, and Gilberto Q. Conchas
The Slippery Work Of Teaching About Whiteness And Privilege: Two Latinx Professors’ Testimonio Madeleine Mejia and Julián Jefferies
Character Education Initiatives And Preparation For School Administrators: A Review Of Literature James A. Martinez and Jeana M. Partin
The Summer Of The Pivot: Prioritizing Equity In Remote Instruction Through A Multidisciplinary Community Of Practice Initiative At A Canadian University Ardavan Eizadirad, Brent Hagerman, Louise Dawe, Shirley Hall, Tristan Long, Michelle Skop, Erin Hodson, Bina Mehta, Michael Daly, and Joseph Beer
Difference-Education Intervention That Promotes A Sense Of Belonging, Mindset, And Hope In Minoritized First-Generation Students Felipe Mercado
Foreword: Combating De-Diversifying In Higher Education Mahmoud Suleiman
Introduction To The Special Edition On Latina/o/x Postsecondary Education Leticia Oseguera, Gilberto Q. Conchas and Marco A. Murillo
The Right To The University: The Experiences Of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students At A Predominantly White University In Upstate New York Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Undocumented Chicanx/Latinx Graduate Students: Illuminating Home-Based Sources Of Support Argelia Lara and Pedro E Nava
Making Movidas: Cultivating Leadership Through Conocimiento In An Undergraduate Student Retreat Luis E. Poza, Lilly Pinedo-Gangai, Magdalena Barrera, Rebeca Burciaga, and Marcos Pizarro
Cultivating The Chicano/Latina/O/X Faculty Pipeline Across Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Systems: The Potential Role Of HSRIs In Transforming The Professoriate Frances Contreras, Samantha Prado Robledo and Valerie Gomez
Implementing AB 705: Implications For Equitable Outcomes Of Latinx Students Audrey Baca Lopez
Shallow Inclusion: How Latinx Students Experience A Predominantly White Institution “Doing Diversity Work” Rosalie Rolón-Dow, Rebecca Covarrubias and Carla Guerrón Montero
Khalas!: Institutionalized Swana Erasure, Resilience, and Resistance In Higher Education Tala Khanmalek, Gina Waneis, Seleena Mukbel and Mary Chammas
Implementing Policy: Navigating the English Learner Roadmap for Equity Allison Briceño and Rebecca Bergey
Losing Hope…But Not Lost Hope: Persistence of Undocumented Students Jaime L. Del Razo
Best Practices In Teaching Spanish In Higher Education During COVID-19 Clara Burgo
Crossing the Digital Divide and the Equity Expanse: Reaching and Teaching All Students During the Pandemic Tracy Reimer and Jennifer C. Hill
Keeping the Freedom To Include: Teachers Navigating “Pushback” and Marshalling “Backup” To Keep Inclusion On the Agenda Mica Pollock, Reed Kendall, Erika Reece, Dolores Lopez and Mariko Yoshisato
Preface: Tenets of Critical Race Theory Ken Magdaleno
The Effects of School Belonging and Peer Influences on the Achievement of High School Immigrant Students Arnold Sánchez Ordaz and Eduardo Mosqueda
It Is Not If, But When: Organizational and Leadership Recommendations for the Upcoming Demand for Expanded DL Programs and Their Articulation Eduardo R. Muñoz-Muñoz and Allison Briceño
The Differential LatinX Attainment Rate: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Trends in Educational Achievements Enrique S. Pumar
School Counselors and Special Education Teachers Involvement in Leadership Activities at their School Sites Kimmie S. Tang, Kitty M. Fortner, and Ronald D. Morgan
Examining Culturally Relevant Leadership Best Practices in Different Educational Environments Michael L. Washington
Introduction To The Special Edition On Latina/o/x Prek-12 Education Gilberto Q. Conchas, Marco A. Murillo, Leticia Oseguera, Sophia Rodriguez
“We Have That Opportunity Now”: Black And Latinx Geographies, (Latinx) Racialization, and “New Latinx South” Rebeca Gamez, Timothy Monreal
Is Structural Change “Practical”? Latino Boys & Imagining Otherwise Omar Davila Jr.
Bilingual Teaching Practices: Meeting The Needs Of Latina/o Youth In Secondary Schools Marco A. Bravo, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica
How Are California’s Latina/x/o Students Faring?: Charter Elementary Schools’ Spanish/English Dual Language Programs Liana Balloffet, Kip Téllez
Ignite The Leader Within: Virtual Latinx Youth Empowerment And Community Leadership Amid Covid-19 Pablo Montes, Monica Bourommavong, Judith Landeros, Luis Urrieta, Jr., Courtney Robinson
School Leadership For Latinx, Immigrant Students And Families: Centering Advocacy And Critical Care Adriana Villavicencio
“It’s Like Where Do I Belong?”: Latinx Undocumented Youth Activism, Identity, and Belonging in North Carolina Felicia Arriaga, Sophia Rodriguez
Foreword: E Pluribus Unun: Pillars for Equity and Social Justice Mahmoud Suleiman
Perceptions Of Inequality As Racial Projects: Uncovering Ethnoracial And Gendered Patterns Among First-generation College-going Asian American Students Gilberto Q Conchas, Socorro Cambero, Vanessa Delgado, Jess Lee, and Leticia Oseguera
Effects Of A Collaborative, Technology-based Intervention Involving School Principals To Retain Early-career Teachers: A Scaled, Quantitative Research Study James A. Martinez, Frederick L. Uy, and Cathy Williams
Embracing Asset-based School Leadership Dispositions In Advancing True Equity And Academic Achievement For Students Living In Poverty Kitty M. Fortner, Jose Lalas, and Heidi Strikwerda
Knowledge In Use: Designing For Play In Kindergarten Science Contexts Jeanane Charara, Emily Adah Miller, and Joseph Krajcik
Wise-compassionate Framework: A Leadership Guide To Educational Equity Felipe Mercado
Commentary — An Anti-American Ban On Critique: A Critical Policy Commentary Mia Settles-Tidwell, Ari Dolid, Susan Ingram, Richard Watters, Victor Small Jr., Kristin Vogel-Campbell, Sarah Ansari, Lynne Mullen, Kathryn Strom, Peg Winkelman, Ardella Dailey, and Mari Gray
Book Review Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture Timothy M. Monreal, Adriana Cervantes-González, and Leslie Rebecca Torres
Foreword: Silver Lining in the Midst of the Perfect Storm Mahmoud Suleiman
Academic Assessment of English Learning School-Aged Children with Suspected Learning Disabilities EunMi Cho and Robert John Kraemer
Black Girls and School Discipline: Shifting from the Narrow Zone of Zero Tolerance to a Wide Region of Restorative Practices and Culturally Proficient Engagement Angela Clark-Louque and Talisa A. Sullivan
From Ally to Activist: Embracing Activism as an essential component of Social Justice Educational Leadership to Combat Injustice in American Schools Michael L McIntosh
Educational Practices that Decrease Opportunity Gaps in Literacy Virginia Araceli Feliz
Skill Identity: Creating Social Capital and Social Justice Eve Bernstein and Ulana Lysniak
Book Review Mistakes We Have Made: Implications for Social Justice Educators Timothy P. Monreal
Foreword: The Power of Testimonios for Empowerment Mahmoud Suleiman
Introduction to the Special Issue Sophia Rodriguez, Gilberto Q. Conchas
Andean Pedagogies Intersecting the Photovoice Process Yuliana Kenfield
“I was pushed out of school”: Social and Emotional Approaches to a Youth Promotion Program Rebeca Mireles-Rios, Victor M. Rios, Trevor Auldridge-Reveles, Marilyn Monroy, Isaac Castro
A Descriptive Study of the Case of Eaveston School District: Core Values from Deficit-Based to Asset-Based Jaime E. Welborn, Randall B. Lindsey
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Minoritized Communities, Urban School Reform, School Policies, and Mayoral Control James S. Wright, Roya Tabrizi
Book Review Marina Lambrinou
Book Review Miguel N. Abad
Distinguished Scholar Commentary Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar, Ph.D.
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research is a peer reviewed open access online journal that publishes high-quality original papers. The scope of the journal is broad and encompassing, covering a range of research areas.
We hope that you enjoy the latest edition.
VOL 10, NO 1 (2024)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: The Ubiquity Of Wars And The “Good Danger” Of Praxis
Mahmoud Suleiman
Perceptions Of Formal And Nonformal Leaders On Cultural Proficiency In Educational Practice And Organizational Change
Brooke Soles, Jaime E. Welborn, and Baramee Peper Anan
Unravelling Child Language Brokering For Health: Understanding The Complexities Behind Children’s Interpreting For Health Care
Krissia Martinez, Marjorie Elaine, Marco A. Murillo, and Michael Rodriguez
Kicking It In California!
Denise Ramirez and Amy Williams
Administrator And Teacher Experiences Implementing Restorative Practices: A Phenomenological Study
Lervan Atticot and Brandy Kamm
Book Review
Shaylyn Marks
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VOL 9, NO 2 (2023)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: Under Attack And Counter Voices For Social Justice
Mahmoud Suleiman and Gilberto Q. Conchas
Supported, Silenced, Subdued, Or Speaking Up? K12 Educators’ Experiences With The Conflict Campaign, 2021- 2022
Mica Pollock, with Reed Kendall, Erika Reece, Abdul-Rehman Issa, and Emilie Homan Brady
Freedom Dreaming Through Waking Nightmares: A Duoethnography Of Education Scholars Navigating Public Schooling As Parents
Danielle Ligocki and Tim Monreal9
Lessons On Servingness From Mentoring Program Leaders At A Hispanic Serving Institution
Rebecca Covarrubias, Giselle Laiduc, Katherine Quinteros, and Joseline Arreaga
Accelerate Ethnic Studies With “All Deliberate Speed!”
Talisa Sullivan and Peter Flores
A Latina Leader’s Consejo: Get To Know Your People And Get Them On The Path Of Continuous Improvement
Carmen Ponce Beck
Book Review
David Sandles
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VOL 9, NO 1 (2023)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: The Need for Shifts In Mindsets And Leadership Roles In PK-20 Schools And Communities: Challenges And Opportunities
Mahmoud Suleiman and Gilberto Q. Conchas
Black Minds Matter: A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Persistent Underrepresentation Of Black Students In Gifted Education Programs
Ashley S. Flynn
Applying A STEM Engagement Framework To Examine Short-Term Retention Of Latinx And Other Underrepresented Groups In An Undergraduate Stem Scholar Program
Maria Javiera De Los Rios, Elyzza M. Aparicio, Hyun Ju Park, Leticia Oseguera, and Gilberto Q. Conchas
The Slippery Work Of Teaching About Whiteness And Privilege: Two Latinx Professors’ Testimonio
Madeleine Mejia and Julián Jefferies
Character Education Initiatives And Preparation For School Administrators: A Review Of Literature
James A. Martinez and Jeana M. Partin
The Summer Of The Pivot: Prioritizing Equity In Remote Instruction Through A Multidisciplinary Community Of Practice Initiative At A Canadian University
Ardavan Eizadirad, Brent Hagerman, Louise Dawe, Shirley Hall, Tristan Long, Michelle Skop, Erin Hodson, Bina Mehta, Michael Daly, and Joseph Beer
Difference-Education Intervention That Promotes A Sense Of Belonging, Mindset, And Hope In Minoritized First-Generation Students
Felipe Mercado
Book Review
Patricia Lane and Shaylyn Marks
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VOL 8, NO 2 (2022) – Special Edition
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: Combating De-Diversifying In Higher Education
Mahmoud Suleiman
Introduction To The Special Edition On Latina/o/x Postsecondary Education
Leticia Oseguera, Gilberto Q. Conchas and Marco A. Murillo
The Right To The University: The Experiences Of Mexican/Mexican American/Xicanx Students At A Predominantly White University In Upstate New York
Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Undocumented Chicanx/Latinx Graduate Students: Illuminating Home-Based Sources Of Support
Argelia Lara and Pedro E Nava
Making Movidas: Cultivating Leadership Through Conocimiento In An Undergraduate Student Retreat
Luis E. Poza, Lilly Pinedo-Gangai, Magdalena Barrera, Rebeca Burciaga, and Marcos Pizarro
Cultivating The Chicano/Latina/O/X Faculty Pipeline Across Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Systems: The Potential Role Of HSRIs In Transforming The Professoriate
Frances Contreras, Samantha Prado Robledo and Valerie Gomez
Implementing AB 705: Implications For Equitable Outcomes Of Latinx Students
Audrey Baca Lopez
Shallow Inclusion: How Latinx Students Experience A Predominantly White Institution “Doing Diversity Work”
Rosalie Rolón-Dow, Rebecca Covarrubias and Carla Guerrón
Montero
Book Review
Anna Rodell
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VOL 8, NO 1 (2022)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: Enough is Enough!
Mahmoud Suleiman
Khalas!: Institutionalized Swana Erasure, Resilience, and Resistance In Higher Education
Tala Khanmalek, Gina Waneis, Seleena Mukbel and Mary Chammas
Implementing Policy: Navigating the English Learner Roadmap for Equity
Allison Briceño and Rebecca Bergey
Losing Hope…But Not Lost Hope: Persistence of Undocumented Students
Jaime L. Del Razo
Best Practices In Teaching Spanish In Higher Education During COVID-19
Clara Burgo
Crossing the Digital Divide and the Equity Expanse: Reaching and Teaching All Students During the Pandemic
Tracy Reimer and Jennifer C. Hill
Keeping the Freedom To Include: Teachers Navigating “Pushback” and Marshalling “Backup” To Keep Inclusion On the Agenda
Mica Pollock, Reed Kendall, Erika Reece, Dolores Lopez and Mariko Yoshisato
Book Review
Shaylyn Marks
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VOL 7, NO 3 (2021)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: Critical Race Realities
Mahmoud Suleiman
Preface: Tenets of Critical Race Theory
Ken Magdaleno
The Effects of School Belonging and Peer Influences on the Achievement of High School Immigrant Students
Arnold Sánchez Ordaz and Eduardo Mosqueda
It Is Not If, But When: Organizational and Leadership Recommendations for the Upcoming Demand for Expanded DL Programs and Their Articulation
Eduardo R. Muñoz-Muñoz and Allison Briceño
The Differential LatinX Attainment Rate: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Trends in Educational Achievements
Enrique S. Pumar
School Counselors and Special Education Teachers Involvement in Leadership Activities at their School Sites
Kimmie S. Tang, Kitty M. Fortner, and Ronald D. Morgan
Examining Culturally Relevant Leadership Best Practices in Different Educational Environments
Michael L. Washington
Book Review
Pablo D. Montes
Book Review
Shaylyn Marks and David Sandles
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VOL 7, NO 2 (2021)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Special Edition – Latina/o/x PreK-12 Education
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword
Mahmoud Suleiman
Introduction To The Special Edition On Latina/o/x Prek-12 Education
Gilberto Q. Conchas, Marco A. Murillo, Leticia Oseguera, Sophia Rodriguez
“We Have That Opportunity Now”: Black And Latinx Geographies, (Latinx) Racialization, and “New Latinx South”
Rebeca Gamez, Timothy Monreal
Is Structural Change “Practical”? Latino Boys & Imagining Otherwise
Omar Davila Jr.
Bilingual Teaching Practices: Meeting The Needs Of Latina/o Youth In Secondary Schools
Marco A. Bravo, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica
How Are California’s Latina/x/o Students Faring?: Charter Elementary Schools’ Spanish/English Dual Language Programs
Liana Balloffet, Kip Téllez
Ignite The Leader Within: Virtual Latinx Youth Empowerment And Community Leadership Amid Covid-19
Pablo Montes, Monica Bourommavong, Judith Landeros, Luis Urrieta, Jr., Courtney Robinson
School Leadership For Latinx, Immigrant Students And Families: Centering Advocacy And Critical Care
Adriana Villavicencio
“It’s Like Where Do I Belong?”: Latinx Undocumented Youth Activism, Identity, and Belonging in North Carolina
Felicia Arriaga, Sophia Rodriguez
Book Review
Verónica N. Vélez
Commentary
Sabrina Zirkel, Marco Bravo
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VOL 7, NO 1 (2021)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: E Pluribus Unun: Pillars for Equity and Social Justice
Mahmoud Suleiman
Perceptions Of Inequality As Racial Projects: Uncovering Ethnoracial And Gendered Patterns Among First-generation College-going Asian American Students
Gilberto Q Conchas, Socorro Cambero, Vanessa Delgado, Jess Lee, and Leticia Oseguera
Effects Of A Collaborative, Technology-based Intervention Involving School Principals To Retain Early-career Teachers: A Scaled, Quantitative Research Study
James A. Martinez, Frederick L. Uy, and Cathy Williams
Embracing Asset-based School Leadership Dispositions In Advancing True Equity And Academic Achievement For Students Living In Poverty
Kitty M. Fortner, Jose Lalas, and Heidi Strikwerda
Knowledge In Use: Designing For Play In Kindergarten Science Contexts
Jeanane Charara, Emily Adah Miller, and Joseph Krajcik
Wise-compassionate Framework: A Leadership Guide To Educational Equity
Felipe Mercado
Commentary — An Anti-American Ban On Critique: A Critical Policy Commentary
Mia Settles-Tidwell, Ari Dolid, Susan Ingram, Richard Watters, Victor Small Jr., Kristin Vogel-Campbell, Sarah Ansari, Lynne Mullen, Kathryn Strom, Peg Winkelman, Ardella Dailey, and Mari Gray
Book Review
Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Timothy M. Monreal, Adriana Cervantes-González, and Leslie Rebecca Torres
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VOL 6, NO 2 (2020)
Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: Silver Lining in the Midst of the Perfect Storm
Mahmoud Suleiman
Academic Assessment of English Learning School-Aged Children
with Suspected Learning Disabilities
EunMi Cho and Robert John Kraemer
Black Girls and School Discipline:
Shifting from the Narrow Zone of Zero Tolerance to a Wide Region
of Restorative Practices and Culturally Proficient Engagement
Angela Clark-Louque and Talisa A. Sullivan
From Ally to Activist: Embracing Activism as an essential component
of Social Justice Educational Leadership to Combat Injustice in
American Schools
Michael L McIntosh
Educational Practices that Decrease Opportunity Gaps in Literacy
Virginia Araceli Feliz
Skill Identity: Creating Social Capital and Social Justice
Eve Bernstein and Ulana Lysniak
Book Review
Mistakes We Have Made: Implications for Social Justice Educators
Timothy P. Monreal
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VOL 6, NO 1 (2020)
Special Edition of the Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research
Table of Contents
Articles
Foreword: The Power of Testimonios for Empowerment
Mahmoud Suleiman
Introduction to the Special Issue
Sophia Rodriguez, Gilberto Q. Conchas
Andean Pedagogies Intersecting the Photovoice Process
Yuliana Kenfield
“I was pushed out of school”: Social and Emotional Approaches to a Youth Promotion Program
Rebeca Mireles-Rios, Victor M. Rios, Trevor Auldridge-Reveles, Marilyn Monroy, Isaac Castro
A Descriptive Study of the Case of Eaveston School District: Core Values from Deficit-Based to Asset-Based
Jaime E. Welborn, Randall B. Lindsey
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Minoritized Communities, Urban School Reform, School Policies, and Mayoral Control
James S. Wright, Roya Tabrizi
Book Review
Marina Lambrinou
Book Review
Miguel N. Abad
Distinguished Scholar Commentary
Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar, Ph.D.
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