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"Making Her Community a Better Place to Live": Culturally Responsive Urban School Leadership in Historical Context
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Johnson, Lauri – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2006
This article examines the notion of "culturally responsive leadership" through a historical case study of the life of Gertrude Elise MacDougald Ayer, the first African American woman principal in New York City. I begin by situating Ayer's leadership practice in light of the social and political context of Harlem in the 1930s and early…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Women Administrators, African Americans, Case Studies