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Equity Leadership Dispositions

June 2020 | The Leadership Academy

This document from The Leadership Academy presents a list of six research-based leadership dispositions found to be crucial for leaders to build a path toward creating equitable school communities. Each disposition includes a detailed description, a list of action points, and a set of reflection questions. The dispositions included are: (1) Reflect on personal assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors; (2) Publicly model a personal belief system that is grounded in equity; (3) Act with cultural competence and responsiveness in interactions, decision-making, and practice; (4) Purposefully build the capacity of others to identify and disrupt inequities in the school; (5) Confront and alter institutional biases of student marginalization, deficit-based schooling, and low expectations associated with minoritized populations; and (6) Create systems and structures to promote equity with a focus on minoritized populations.