Educational Leadership of Immigrants highlights educational practices and discourses around immigration that intersect with policies and laws, in order to support K-12 students' educational access and families' participation in schooling.

Emily R. Crawford is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.

Lisa M. Dorner is Associate Professor of Educational Policy and a Faculty Fellow of the Cambio Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Definition of Terms

Section I - School Leadership

1: Equity and Access for English Learners: Developing Inclusive Advanced Placement Programs

Chris Belcher and Sarah L. Hairston

2: Listening to African Muslim Girls: Schooling at the Intersection of Race, Religion, and Gender

Van Lac and Nathern S. Okilwa

3: "Anil, please tell your dad your report card is really good!" Language Brokering at Parent-Teacher Conferences

Lisa M. Dorner, Shu-Sha Angie Guan, and Dawn Thieman

4: Teacher Tensions: Addressing the Impact of Anti-Immigrant Discourse on Students

Chloe Latham Sikes and Andrea Chevalier

5: Translanguaging: Challenges and Opportunities for School Leaders

Dina López and Ofelia García

6: Standardized Testing and Mariachi: Dilemmas of a Culturally Sustaining Dual-Language Principal

Sandra Leu Bonanno, Adeli Ynostroza and, Eulogio Alejandre

7: When ICE Came to Town: Separating Families and Disrupting Educational Trajectories

Liliana E. Castrellón, Alonso R. Reyna Rivarola and Gerardo R. López

8: Creating a Welcoming Environment of Mental Health Equity for Undocumented Students

Germán Cadenas, Diana Peña, and Jesus Cisneros

9: UndocuCollege Access: Addressing Documentation Issues in the College Choice Process

Marco A. Murillo

10: The Paradoxical Implications of Deported American Students

Edmund T. Hamann and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough

Section I - Resources

Section II - Community Leadership

11: Balancing School Priorities on the Border: A Case of School Leadership in Immigrant Communities

David DeMatthews and Guadalupe Vela

12: How School Leadership Influences (and is Influenced by) Immigration

St. Claire Adriaan, Anthony H. Normore, and Jeffrey S. Brooks

13: A Principal's Mission to Create Space and Inclusivity for Immigrant Students in a Predominately Latinx Charter School

Uzziel H. Pecina and Dea Marx

14: School Choice and Immigrants: Do Families Choose or Do Schools Choose?

Stephen Kotok and Elizabeth Gil

15: Negotiating Culturally Responsive Leadership in Remote Rural Settings

Maria Frankland, Andrea Mercado, and Catharine Biddle

16: Distributed Leadership in Schools with 'Emergent Bilingual Leadership Teams' for Collaborative Decision Making

Kate Menken and María Teresa (Maite) Sánchez

17: Innovating Practices in New Immigrant Destinations: A University-School District Partnership Focused on Family Engagement

Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Jason DelPorto, and Yvonne Endara

18: Mapping Just Borders of Distributed Leadership: Micropolitics of Engaging Undocumented Latinx Organizing in an Anti-Immigrant Climate

Samantha M. Paredes Scribner, Erica Fernández, and Michael D. Corral

19: Developing Inclusive and Multilingual Family Literacy Events at Diverse Schools

Edwin Nii Bonney, Lisa M. Dorner, Lina Trigos-Carrillo, Kim Song, and Sujin Kim

Section II - Resources

Section III - District Leadership

20: The Importance of Enrollment and Graduation Planning for Adolescent Newcomer English Learners

Ryan Rumpf

21: The Better Immigrant: Seeking Genuine Inclusivity of All Immigrant Youth

Trish Morita-Mullaney

22: How Leaders Learn About the Needs of Immigrant Students in a Turbulent Time

Sarah L. Hairston, Emily R. Crawford, and Warapark Maitreephun

23: Organizing District-wide Change for Equity in a New Immigrant Destination

Megan Hopkins and Kristina Brezicha

24: Isolating or Inclusive? Educating Refugee Youth in American Schools

Jill Koyama, Khristina Haddad, and Sarah Yacoub

Section III - Resources