In this research report from The Wallace Foundation, the authors use data from a 2019 study about the effectiveness of principal pipelines for student outcomes to consider how these pipelines could be designed to advance equity in a school district. Grounded in racial equity, the report includes the way in which an existing culturally responsive school leadership (CRSL) framework can be applied to build and sustain an effective principal pipeline. From this framework, four key characteristics of equity-driven school leaders are identified: (1) having a “critical consciousness,” or an understanding of historical oppression that informs achieving equity, (2) ensuring schools are inclusive places where all feel welcomed, (3) supporting teachers to provide culturally relevant and responsive classrooms, and (4) engaging with a broad range of community members to define what educational justice means for a school’s students. The authors apply these characteristics to apply to seven domains of comprehensive, aligned pipelines.