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Developing Shared Leadership And Trust Within School-Community Partnerships Serving Concentrated Poverty Communities, Tatiana Wells
Developing Shared Leadership And Trust Within School-Community Partnerships Serving Concentrated Poverty Communities, Tatiana Wells
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
School-community partnerships are critical for children and families in concentrated poverty neighborhoods. This basic qualitative study aimed to understand the dual leadership roles that are inclusive of the school and community leaders’ collective voice for building trustworthy relationships and equitable leadership to support families and children from communities with high poverty concentrations. The conceptual framework included elements from transformative leadership theory, the family interagency collaboration model, and the Ubuntu philosophy of humanism. Four community-based leaders and four school leaders with at least 5 years of experience in an eastern U.S. state addressed the research questions by describing how they foster …