Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION 1. URBAN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP -- Section 1. Introduction -- Ch01. Urban Education and Leadership -- Ch02. Sankofa -- Ch03. Demographic and Professional Characteristics of Urban School Principals in the United States -- Ch04. An Interpretive History of Urban Education and Leadership in Age of Perceived Racial Invisibility -- SECTION 2TEACHING, LEARNING, CURRICULUM, ANDEDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES -- Section 2. Introduction -- Ch05. Creating a Culture of Confidence -- Ch06. Bringing Urban High School Reform to Scale -- Ch07. Developing Teacher Leadership for Equity in Urban Schools -- Ch08. Teachers Learning to Lead -- SECTION 3. GENDER, RACE, CLASS, AND CULTURE -- Section 3. Introduction -- Critical Care, Collaborative Activism, and Professional Risk -- Ch09. Urban Schools, Black Principals, and Black Students -- Ch10. Equity and Race-Visible Urban School Reform -- Ch11. Culturally Responsive Leadership Preparation and Practices -- Ch12. From Dysconsciousness to Consciousness of Stereotypes That Disparage Black Youth -- Ch13. Tempered Radicalism in the Ivory Tower -- SECTION 4. THEORY AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY -- Section 4. Introduction -- Sound the "Bell" -- Ch14. Using Social Norming and Ecological Theories and Diversity-Based Strategies for Bullying Interventions in Urban Areas -- Ch15. Toward Community-Centric Educational Leadership in Addressing the School Discipline Disparity -- Ch16. Revisiting Black Feminist Thought and Home-School Relations in the U.S. South -- SECTION 5. PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNITY -- Section 5. Introduction -- Ch17. "I Know Momma Didn't Have to Work This Hard" -- Ch18. Where Has All of the Community Rage Gone? -- Ch19. A Spectrum of Parent and Community Engagement for Conceptualizing and Responding to the Institutional Complexity of Urban Schools.

SECTION 6. SOCIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY, ADVOCACY, AND ACTIVISM -- Section 6. Introduction -- A Critical Race Theory Perspective on Urban School Leadership -- Ch20. AYP, Access, and Expectations -- Ch21. Learning to Lead for Social Justice -- Ch22. Social Justice in Action -- Ch23. Actions Matter -- SECTION 7. PERSPECTIVES IN POLICY -- Section 7. Introduction -- Ch24. Urban Leadership, Neoliberalism, and New Policy Entrepreneurs -- Ch25. Destiny High School -- Ch26. Leaders of the New School(s) -- SECTION 8. LEADERSHIP PREPARTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SUPPORT -- Section 8. Introduction -- A Theory of Emancipatory Leadership -- Ch27. Turnaround, School Choice, and the Hidden Discourses of Race in Leadership Preparation -- Ch28. The Urban School Leaders Collaborative -- Ch29. School Leadership in Urban Schools -- Ch30. Preparing Leaders to Support the Education of Diverse Learners -- Ch31. Lessons from a District-Based Doctoral Cohort -- SECTION 9. CRITICAL FOUNDATIONS IN URBAN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP -- Section 9. Introduction -- Ch32. College Readiness and Urban Schools -- Ch33. Change Agency in Our Own Backyards -- Ch34. Our Fierce Urgency of Now -- SECTION 10. International and Global Perspectives in Urban Education and Leadership -- Section 10. Introduction -- Ch35. International Perspectives in Urban Educational Leadership -- Ch36. Indigenous School Leadership in New Zealand -- Ch37. Crises, Critical Incidents, and Community and Educational Leadership -- SECTION 11. DIRECTIONS IN URBAN LEADERSHIP -- Section 11. Introduction -- Urban School Leadership in Neoliberal Times -- Ch38. Urban Education Leadership in the Counseling Profession -- Ch39. Principal Professional Identity and the Cultivation of Trust in Urban Schools -- Ch40. Exemplary Leadership in Challenging Urban Public School Settings -- Ch41. School Turnaround.

EPILOGUE. Urban Educational Leadership for the Twenty-First Century -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.