Elizabeth is a middle-class white woman and principal of Eagle Wings High School, a large, well-r... more Elizabeth is a middle-class white woman and principal of Eagle Wings High School, a large, well-resourced, high-performing suburban high school. This manuscript uses a Critical Race Theory composite counterstory to analyze Elizabeth’s experiences of racial conflict that resulted after she enacted equity reforms to address her school’s history of racial inequity. We examine the manner in which Elizabeth’s decision-making for students of color related to her racial meaning-making and identities and how the resistance Elizabeth faced was not merely from teachers or white parents, but also from within herself.
The current study explores the principle of consistency and its relevance in the discipline cultu... more The current study explores the principle of consistency and its relevance in the discipline cultures of three middle and two high schools in a Midwest US school district. We explore how educators (1) evoke consistency as a necessity for school discipline and (2) attempt to be consistent in practice to develop disciplined students, encourage academic-oriented school cultures, and maintain safe and orderly schools. We found that while consistency is important for collegiality’s sake and provides a cognitive frame for teachers to think about how to improve discipline, it may undermine the decision-making and discipline practices of individual teachers who are more apt to rely on relational rather than behaviourist discipline approaches.
Elizabeth is a middle-class white woman and principal of Eagle Wings High School, a large, well-r... more Elizabeth is a middle-class white woman and principal of Eagle Wings High School, a large, well-resourced, high-performing suburban high school. This manuscript uses a Critical Race Theory composite counterstory to analyze Elizabeth’s experiences of racial conflict that resulted after she enacted equity reforms to address her school’s history of racial inequity. We examine the manner in which Elizabeth’s decision-making for students of color related to her racial meaning-making and identities and how the resistance Elizabeth faced was not merely from teachers or white parents, but also from within herself.
The current study explores the principle of consistency and its relevance in the discipline cultu... more The current study explores the principle of consistency and its relevance in the discipline cultures of three middle and two high schools in a Midwest US school district. We explore how educators (1) evoke consistency as a necessity for school discipline and (2) attempt to be consistent in practice to develop disciplined students, encourage academic-oriented school cultures, and maintain safe and orderly schools. We found that while consistency is important for collegiality’s sake and provides a cognitive frame for teachers to think about how to improve discipline, it may undermine the decision-making and discipline practices of individual teachers who are more apt to rely on relational rather than behaviourist discipline approaches.
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