Events
"Public Oral PhD Defense: Regina L Seabrook
School Leadership for the Disruption of Black Women Teacher Attrition
Advisor: Dr. Nicola Alexander
The purpose of this qualitative study was to (1) better understand how BWTs described ways that organizational factors and conditions and/or their configurations created tipping points in their decisions to leave their schools or the profession and (2) to better understand how BWTs envisioned the role of school leadership in disrupting the chronic pattern of BWT attrition. This study was framed through the lens of Black feminist thought. Findings suggest that multi-layered experiences of racialized and gendered organizational dynamics are strongly associated with the creation of tipping points, whereby BWTs decided to leave their schools or the profession. Findings also suggest that anti-racist school leadership is needed to disrupt patterns of BWT attrition.
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