Educational Leadership of Immigrants

Educational Leadership of Immigrants highlights educational practices and discourses around immigration that intersect with policies and laws, in order to support K-12 students' educational access and families' participation in schooling.

Emily R. Crawford is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. Lisa M. Dorner is Associate Professor of Educational Policy and a Faculty Fellow of the Cambio Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.

Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Definition of Terms Section I - School Leadership 1: Equity and Access for English Learners: Developing Inclusive Advanced Placement Programs Chris Belcher and Sarah L. Hairston 2: Listening to African Muslim Girls: Schooling at the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Gender Van Lac and Nathern S. Okilwa 3: "Anil, please tell your dad your report card is really good!" Language Brokering at Parent-Teacher Conferences Lisa M. Dorner, Shu-Sha Angie Guan, and Dawn Thieman 4: Teacher Tensions: Addressing the Impact of Anti-Immigrant Discourse on Students Chloe Latham Sikes and Andrea Chevalier 5: Translanguaging: Challenges and Opportunities for School Leaders Dina López and Ofelia García 6: Standardized Testing and Mariachi: Dilemmas of a Culturally Sustaining Dual-Language Principal Sandra Leu Bonanno, Adeli Ynostroza and, Eulogio Alejandre 7: When ICE Came to Town: Separating Families and Disrupting Educational Trajectories Liliana E. Castrellón, Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola and Gerardo R. López 8: Creating a Welcoming Environment of Mental Health Equity for Undocumented Students Germán Cadenas, Diana Peña, and Jesus Cisneros 9: UndocuCollege Access: Addressing Documentation Issues in the College Choice Process Marco A. Murillo 10: The Paradoxical Implications of Deported American Students Edmund T. Hamann and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough Section I - Resources Section II - Community Leadership 11: Balancing School Priorities on the Border: A Case of School Leadership in Immigrant Communities David DeMatthews and Guadalupe Vela 12: How School Leadership Influences (and is Influenced by) Immigration St. Claire Adriaan, Anthony H. Normore, and Jeffrey S. Brooks 13: A Principal's Mission to Create Space and Inclusivity for Immigrant Students in a Predominately Latinx Charter School Uzziel H. Pecina and Dea Marx 14: School Choice and Immigrants: Do Families Choose or Do Schools Choose? Stephen Kotok and Elizabeth Gil 15: Negotiating Culturally Responsive Leadership in Remote Rural Settings Maria Frankland, Andrea Mercado, and Catharine Biddle 16: Distributed Leadership in Schools with 'Emergent Bilingual Leadership Teams' for Collaborative Decision Making Kate Menken and María Teresa (Maite) Sánchez 17: Innovating Practices in New Immigrant Destinations: A University-School District Partnership Focused on Family Engagement Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Jason DelPorto, and Yvonne Endara 18: Mapping Just Borders of Distributed Leadership: Micropolitics of Engaging Undocumented Latinx Organizing in an Anti-Immigrant Climate Samantha M. Paredes Scribner, Erica Fernández, and Michael D. Corral 19: Developing Inclusive and Multilingual Family Literacy Events at Diverse Schools Edwin Nii Bonney, Lisa M. Dorner, Lina Trigos-Carrillo, Kim Song, and Sujin Kim Section II - Resources Section III - District Leadership 20: The Importance of Enrollment and Graduation Planning for Adolescent Newcomer English Learners Ryan Rumpf 21: The Better Immigrant: Seeking Genuine Inclusivity of All Immigrant Youth Trish Morita-Mullaney 22: How Leaders Learn About the Needs of Immigrant Students in a Turbulent Time Sarah L. Hairston, Emily R. Crawford, and Warapark Maitreephun 23: Organizing District-wide Change for Equity in a New Immigrant Destination Megan Hopkins and Kristina Brezicha 24: Isolating or Inclusive? Educating Refugee Youth in American Schools Jill Koyama, Khristina Haddad, and Sarah Yacoub Section III - Resources