The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine how principal supervisors who identify as Black develop Black principals in K-12 settings. The approaches generally include leadership activities, philosophies, and mentoring. This study will use a phenomenological approach, focusing on the lived experience of Black principal supervisors in developing Black principals. Participants will be 10-15 Black principal supervisors who (a) self-identify as Black; (b) are senior leaders; (c) manage a Black school leader in some capacity; and (d) manage more than one principal. The researcher will use existing networks such as Surge Academy (Surge), Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC), and the National Charter Collaborative (NCC) to identify and contact potential participants. Participants will need to sign an informed-consent form.

Data collection will involve one-on-one semi-structured virtual interviews with five to eight focus questions. Zoom teleconferencing will be used to interview and record the discussions, which will then be transcribed by Rev.com. Data and transcripts will be stored on the Rev.com platform, with backups of the material on a flash drive. Data will be coded using an inductive methodology to develop themes that will then be interpreted.

The data collected will be secure and stored according to the Rev.com privacy and security policies which state that Rev will not share any customer data. The security of the data is verified to be HIPAA compliant and will be purged upon customer written request, or as requested on the secure platform. All identifiable information will be stripped by the researcher and the least identifying demographic features will be listed for the purpose of research. The study will not use cities, names, or specific school/district names. Instead, the researcher will identify participants as principal supervisor 1 (PS-1), PS-2, PS-3, etc. The study will also collect gender, level of education, years of experience as a principal supervisor, and the number of principals supervised. All data collected will be deleted and destroyed 5 years after the collection of the data.

The purpose is to find commonalities to explain the essence of the experience. This study will offer a blueprint for educational organizations to develop Black school leadership in a way that creates opportunities for excellence in the principal role to transform schools. The analysis produced themes consistent with the literature on principal supervises and presented challenges aligned with critical race theory and adaptive leadership.

Creator

• Jones II, Patrick H.

Language

• English

Identifier

• ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9795-9395

• Proquest Publication Number: 30989508

• Proquest Submission ID: 10003

Keyword

• black leadership

• black principal

• CRT

• educational leadership

• principal

• principal supervisor

Date created

• 2023

Related URL

• Available from Proquest Dissertations & Theses database:  https://login.forward.marian.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/blueprint-black-leadership-phenomenological-study/docview/2915911392/se-2?accountid=66430

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/