Leadership Programs Research and Publications

Our research investigates how educational leaders learn to lead for equity in TK–12 education through three Focal Questions. 

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  • Focal Question 1: What does equity and justice-focused leadership look like in practice?

  • Focal Question 2: How are equity and justice leaders effectively developed and sustained?

  • Focal Question 3: How must educational systems be transformed to be more equitable and just?

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Leadership Programs Research: Complete Archive

Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
Leadership Programs Policy Brief: Preparing California’s principals for Universal Transitional Kindergarten: Lessons from other states 2023 Leadership Programs
The Case of Assessment Center: How the purpose, logic and experience of an embedded performance assessment of school leaders is built around an epistemology of practice Jessica Charles; Rebecca Cheung; Kristin Rosekrans 2016 Leadership Programs
PLI Impact Report: Alumni and District Partner Feedback Rebecca Cheung 2013 Leadership Programs
PLI Impact Report: Experiments with Student Outcomes W. Norton Grubb; PATRICK LIAO; REBECCA CHEUNG 2014 Leadership Programs
A Model of Leadership Induction for California: A candidate’s perspective of the Leadership Support Program at University of California, Berkeley Rebecca Cheung 2015 Leadership Programs
‘Buen mentor’ y ‘buena mentoría’ según actores de programas de inducción a directores novatos chilenos Carolina Cuéllar Becerra; María Paz González Vallejos; María Jesús Espinosa Aguirre; Rebecca Cheung 2019 Leadership Programs
How Do You Evaluate Leadership? The Impossibility of Evaluating Principals and Leadership Programs Using Student Outcomes W. Norton Grubb; Patrick Liao; Rebecca Cheung 2015 Leadership Programs
PLI: The First 20 Years Rebecca Cheung; Nancy Parachini; John Rogers 2019 Leadership Programs
Impact Report: Designing Transformational Learning To Prepare Social Justice Leaders Pierre Tchetgen; Rebecca Cheung 2020 Leadership Programs
School-Wide Transformation Toward Arts-Centered Integrated Instruction and Learning: Bringing School Leadership Into Focus Thomas R. Green; Zuhra Teja 2017 Leadership Programs