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Bolman, L. G. & Deal, T.E. (2021). Reframing organizations (7th ed.). Jossey-Bass.

Kang, R., Saunders, M., & Weinberg, K. (2021). Collaborative leadership as the cornerstone of community schools: Policy, structures, and practice. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Community Schooling. https://communityschooling.gseis.ucla.edu/collaborative-leadership/
This is a policy brief describing one of the first think tanks responsible for creating the concept of community schooling. As an educational leader, understanding policy and politics and the role they play in education is extremely important. While you are not expected to read this policy brief in its entirety, it is important to explore the brief, understand the purpose of a policy brief, and gain some knowledge on one of the first organizations to broach community schooling. (10 pages)

Mayger & Provinzano. (2020). Community school leadership: Identifying qualities necessary for developing and supporting equity-centered principals. Leadership and Policy in Schools. DOI: 10.1080/15700763.2020.1759652 https://clcinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Mayger.Community-School-Leadership-Identifying-Qualities-Necessary-for-Developing-and-Supporting-Equity-Centered-Principals.2020-2.pdf
This qualitative study was performed to determine the preparation needs of leaders running community-based schools and school districts. The findings suggested a lack of preparedness to lead equity-based schools and districts. (15 pages)

Quinn & Blank. (2020). Twenty years, ten lessons: Community schools as an equitable school improvement strategy. Commentaries in Urban Education, 49(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.33682/3csj-b8r7 https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/vue/twenty-years-ten-lessons
Education and community leaders share their experiences and lessons learned in building and leading community schools over several decades. (8 pages)

Agyeman & Aphane. (2024). Exploring school leadership styles used to improve instruction and learning in schools. Journal of Research Initiatives, 8(3). http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1435342.pdf
This qualitative study was used to evaluate the various leadership philosophies used in South African schools to improve teaching and learning. Though this was not done in an American setting, the context is applicable. (18 pages)

Bolman, L. G. & Deal, T.E. (2021). Reframing organizations (7th ed.). Jossey-Bass.

Kim, T. (2020). What is the meaning of educational leadership in a time of policy engineering? International Journal of Leadership in Education, 26(1), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2020.1770865
Explored in this essay are the concepts of educational leadership and their interaction with education policy. The author utilizes Stephen Ball's concept of policy technologies and Herbert Marcuse's idea of one-dimensional thinking to evaluate educational policy's stronghold on school leaders. (12 pages)

This resource may be your go-to source for ideas as you brainstorm regarding the problem you will work on solving for the remaining weeks of the course.

This resource allows the researcher to see how a topic is linked to other topics. It is even possible to export and save the mind map.