Turnaround Principals: Passionate Leaders Who Can Improve Low-Performing Schools - Paperback

by Kishia C. James (Author)

The book offers a progressive perspective of turnaround principals and adds to the current turnaround school literature. It includes stories of the lived experiences of three critically conscious principals' journey to school transformation. The turnaround principals in this book disrupted cultures of oppression in predominantly African American schools. Through the power of transformative leadership these school leaders improved the academic outcomes for students as well as the working conditions of teachers and staff.

Author Biography

Kishia C. James is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and coordinator for the Community Resiliency Model(R) at Wake County Public School System. She is an educational leader with over two decades of educational leadership in urban school districts and turnaround schools and the co-editor of The Gloria Ladson-Billings Reader (Cognella, 2020).