Leadership Programs Research and Publications

Our research investigates how educational leaders learn to lead for equity in TK–12 education through three Focal Questions. 

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  • Focal Question 1: What does equity and justice-focused leadership look like in practice?

  • Focal Question 2: How are equity and justice leaders effectively developed and sustained?

  • Focal Question 3: How must educational systems be transformed to be more equitable and just?

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Leadership Programs Research: Complete Archive

Title Author Yearsort descending Publication type
Leadership Connection Rubric: Supporting Equity in the Schools We Need (2nd Edition) Lynda Tredway; Rebecca Cheung; Viet Nguyen; Daphannie Stephens; Linda Leader-Picone; Janette Hernandez 2015 FQ1: Social justice and equity leadership in practice
Principal Leadership Institute Brochure 2015 2015 Leadership Programs
A Model of Leadership Induction for California: A candidate’s perspective of the Leadership Support Program at University of California, Berkeley Rebecca Cheung 2015 Leadership Programs
How Do You Evaluate Leadership? The Impossibility of Evaluating Principals and Leadership Programs Using Student Outcomes W. Norton Grubb; Patrick Liao; Rebecca Cheung 2015 Leadership Programs
PLI Impact Brief 2015 2015 Leadership Programs
PLI Annual Update 2015 2015 Leadership Programs
The Case of Assessment Center: How the purpose, logic and experience of an embedded performance assessment of school leaders is built around an epistemology of practice Jessica Charles; Rebecca Cheung; Kristin Rosekrans 2016 Leadership Programs
PLI Annual Update 2016 2016 Leadership Programs
PLI Impact Report: Diversifying The Principal Workforce Rebecca Cheung 2017 FQ3: Critically interrogating systems
Preparing the Online Space for Equity Centered Discussions Rebecca Cheung 2017 Leadership Programs