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

Titlesort ascending Author Year Publication type
Impact Report: Sustaining Principal Resilience: Early Investigations In Understanding Principal Stress And Support Rebecca Cheung; Meg Stomski; Nathan Gong 2021 FQ3: Critically interrogating systems
Impact Report: Leadership Support Program Rebecca Cheung; Nathan Gong 2019 Leadership Programs
Impact Report: Flying With Our Own Wings: The Essential Role Of Leaders In Supporting Pedagogical Mentoring Soraya Sablo Sutton; María Rojas Concha 2020 FQ1: Social justice and equity leadership in practice
Impact Report: Designing Transformational Learning To Prepare Social Justice Leaders Pierre Tchetgen; Rebecca Cheung 2020 Leadership Programs
How to Increase California’s Educator Workforce Travis J. Bristol; Shelly Gupton; Soo Hyun Han-Harris; Sarah Lillis 2021 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
Freedman, S.W. “Growing up Divided,” AERA Symposium, Invited Presidential Session, Live Streamed. New York, April, 2018. 2021 Journal Article
Evaluating Berkeley’s Principal Leadership Institute: Experiments With Student Outcomes Professor W. Norton Grubb; Patrick Liao; Rebecca Cheung 2014 Leadership Programs
Defining Teacher Leadership: A Framework Rebecca Cheung; Thomas Reinhardt; Elisa Stone; Judith Warren Little 2018 FQ3: Critically interrogating systems
Collective and Team Leadership: Preparation For Urban Schools Rebecca Cheung; W. Norton Grubb 2014 Leadership Programs