Educational Leadership

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Introduction
Schools in the modern twenty first century have become the epicenter for the transformation of culture’s within a community and have impact for with decades of influence in how a local society progress’ to higher levels. The result of creating educational leadership through transforming school culture is a process that needs the cooperation and collaborative effort by all those involved (Green, 2013). To progressively preserve the future of our communities and be competitive in our world economy, the effectiveness of teaching the next generation has become a national priority. In essence, the events and cultures that affect our youth today shape and mold the future of each school and community they reside in. This in turn, has a lasting ripple effect that grows within the fiber of society.
Creating Educational Leaders by Transforming School Culture
The demographics of the American culture have inordinately been changing over the past century as the ethnic diversity of the public school student is reaching near 45% non white (Fallon, O’Keefe, & Sugai, 2012). This blending of ethnic and technological cultures within a school presents many challenges to the administration and teachers alike. Diversity training is well needed to educate the leaders of schools how to respect, but yet create a balance between religious faiths, the attire that a ethnic group may wear, how individuals articulate their words and thoughts, and lifestyle choices to name a few. Current educational leaders of a school may not have come from a diverse background and therefore do not have a deep understanding of why one student may act in what they may consider an inappropriate manner.
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