Abolitionist Leadership in Schools

<p><em>Abolitionist Leadership in Schools</em> offers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating restructuring and reorienting their service to students families staff and communities in crisis. Though often associated with sudden large-scale disruptions crises are ongoing matters—particularly among systemically-oppressed people—that underscore the planning voids resource inequities marginalizing policies and strategic lapses of any teaching and learning community while perpetuating students’ social-emotional psychological and pedagogical traumas. This expansive book guides school leaders to provide pre-emptive premeditated and progressive leadership while countering the impacts of racism that endure in our schools. Working from an abolitionist lineage author Robert S. Harvey’s radically humane vision explores lessons from our collective national past provides strategic planning with creativities and contingencies and fosters liberatory decision-making through accountability communication and more. </p>