Humanizing Leadership

Teaching as

• hopeful & exuberant
• pleasure & joy
• an act of resistance
• (hooks, 1994)

How might teaching and learning be different?

• A flexible agenda around learners' needs
• Trust & healing
• Humanize learning around learners' needs

Transformative leadership

• Grounded in democracy
• Addressing individual & public good
• Inclusive & equitable

SERVANT LEADERSHIP

• Sense of efficacy
• Dedication
• Collaborative Skills
• (Alston, 2005)

Radical healing

• Individual Well-Being
• Community Health
• Broader Social Justice
• (Ginwright, 2015)

Restoration
Resistance
Reclamation

Humanizing pedagogy

• Practices that disrupt dehumanization through teaching and learning
• Culturally relevant and based in critical pedagogy and critical literacy.
• Begin with students’ realities, their ideologies, & ways of communicating
• Socially transformative
• (Camangian, 2015)

culturally-relevant critical pedagogies

• 4 aspects:
• Student’ cultural frameworks
• Students’ lived experiences
• Students’ diverse learning styles
• Transformation of power/knowledge relations
• (Camangian, 2015)

“My final words of advice to you are to educate, agitate, and organize; have faith in yourself.


With justice on our side I do not see how we can
lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy.

It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality.”


(Ambedkar, 1942)