Community Engagement

After much research and discovery around the issues in urban education, I focused my attention on the instructional practices that benefit, rather than hinder, the racial achievement gap within elementary schools. Specifically, I examined reforming instructional practices such as instruction within the classroom, educator's mindsets and mentalities, and educational leadership teams and their support and expectations with closing the racial achievement gap.   

Discovering, learning, and studying cultural, racial, and ethnic differences of a school community is an integral part of a school's success. For our final project, a classmate and I examined Culturally Responsive School Leadership and it's impact on improving the deficit mindset of educators towards African American students. We were able to do this through examining the intersectionality identities exasperated by practitioner practices and/or policy, as well as problems of practice as it concerns engaging diverse students, families, and/or communities.