Inquiry-Focused Leadership

When systems-focused leaders lead with inquiry, they facilitate systems change as collective inquiry that critically engages expansive data and diverse expertise to understand problems and co-construct solutions towards justice-centered practices, experiences and outcomes.

To do so, they:

2a)Identify the learning experiences, teaching and leadership practices, including their own, that reinforce racial and other educational inequities,; co-construct theories of action and change that address the systemic roots of those problems; move to collective action; and continuously assess change to intervene in unjust processes and outcomes.

2b) Collaborate with others to transform qualitative and quantitative data systems in ways that foster humanizing data practices and research use in systemic inquiry and change.

2c) Cultivate the agency and leadership of other educators, students, families and communities, especially those marginalized by systems, to shift inequitable power and build solidarities in inquiry process.