An Approach to the School Facility Renaming Process Using Culturally Responsive Leadership

Abstract

Culturally responsive leadership allows for executive leaders to incorporate their core values and beliefs to make difficult decisions in organizations. This chapter explains how a superintendent of schools in an urban all charter school district navigates through external influential barriers to facilitate a school facility renaming process. Reframing the mindset of senior-level leaders within the district and school board members to become culturally aware and to understand the social inequities of the community was the call to action from the social unrest across the United States. Strategies to navigate through inequitable barriers for executive leaders are provided in the chapter.