The Companion Guide activities will help illuminate salient theoretical concepts related to urban education and leadership.

René O. Guillaume, PhD, is an assistant professor and also serves as an interim Co-Director in the School of Teacher Preparation, Administration, and Leadership in the College of Education at New Mexico State University.

Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, PhD is the Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Global Engagement and Professor of Educational Administration in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.

Azadeh F. Osanloo, PhD, is currently a Professor in Educational Leadership & Administration and recently ended her term as the inaugural Co-Director of the School of Teacher Preparation, Administration, and Leadership in the College of Education at New Mexico State University.

PART I: LEADERS OF COLOR IN URBAN CONTEXT

1 Revisiting the Past to Inform the Present: Lessons from a Pre-Brown African American Leadership Paradigm

Sheryl J. Crof

2 Black School Leaders Matter: Applied Critical Leadership in a Large Urban District

Monique Sloan and Cristóbal Rodríguez

3 The Collective and Unique Contributions of Latina Urban School Leaders: Testimonios of Advocacy and Resistance

Melissa A. Martinez and Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen

4 Are Charter Schools the Educational Promised Land for Black Leaders? Examining Rational Choice Theory in a Racialized Context

April L. Peters and Ain A. Grooms

5 An Ecological Model of the Urban Learner: The Geography of a Predominantly Black Institution and Multicampus Spaces

Ursula Thomas

PART II: HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES

6 "A Sanctuary while You're Here on Campus": From Safe/Brave Space to Places of Respite in Urban Educational Institutions and Classrooms

Douglas Allen and Shelby Chipman

7 Extreme Deprivation and Violence: Does Sustained Deprivation Exacerbate Homicide Rates in U.S. Cities beyond Deprivation's Direct (Linear) Effect?

Patricia L. McCall, Kenneth C. Land, Karen F. Parker, and Andrew C. Gray

PART III: ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

8 Supporting Teacher Leadership for Equity in Urban Schools

Joshua Childs, Judson Laughter, Bryant O. Best, and H. Richard Milner IV

9 Mission Ready: Globalization, Diversity, and Inclusion Viewed through the Experiences of Children of Military Service Members

Chadrhyn Pedraza

10 Harlem's Motherwork: A Valuable Resource for Urban School Leaders

Terri Watson

PART IV: URBAN KNOWLEDGE AND WAYS OF KNOWING

11 Critically Conscious Educational Leadership Development through the Use of Pláticas in an Agentic Learning Space

Brenda Rubio, Chris Milk-Bonilla, and Randy Clinton Bell

12 HQPE: Exploring the Role of Physical Education in Facing America's Educational Debt

Samuel R. Hodge, Martha James-Hassan, and Alexander Vigo-Valentín

13 Women's Perspectives on Deconstructing the Urban Ivory Tower for Black Women Faculty

Risha Berry, Tomika Ferguson, and Whitney Sherman Newcomb

PART V: URBAN POLITICS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

14 Urban Education and Educational Leadership Graduate Preparation Programs: Preparing Graduate Students Coming from and Going into Urban Pre-K-12 Settings

René O. Guillaume and Elizabeth C. Apodaca

15 Queering Urban Elementary Schools: Campus Leaders as Allies of Intersectionality

Leanna Lucero and Angela Owens

16 Urban School Administrators' Incorporation of Student Voice/Culture and Community Involvement toward School Discipline in Urban Middle Schools

John A. Williams III and Chance W. Lewis

17 The Value of Asian American Pre-K-12 Urban Education Principals: A Human Resources Developmental Perspective on the Barriers and Opportunity Pathways for America's "Model Minority"

Nicholas D. Hartlep

18 Understanding the Politics of Race, Equity, and Neoliberalism in Everyday Leadership

Sarah Diem, Anjalé D. Welton, Sarah W. Walters, and Shannon Paige Clark

PART VI: TRANSNATIONALISM

19 Supporting Undocumented Students: Principals Taking Action

Sofia Bahena, Brianda De Leon, and Mariela A. Rodríguez

20 Conceptualizing Equity in a Borderland Language Ecology

Magdalena Pando

21 Projecting the Voices of the Voiceless: Undocumented Students in a Southwest Borderland K-12 School District

Roberto Lozano

22 "They Don't Even Know Me": Effects of the Model Minority Myth on Asian American Students in a Southwest Borderland High School

Jennifer Maya Haan

23 A Metaphor Analysis of Tragedy and Trauma: Educational Leadership Responses to Addressing Transnationalistic Terror and Racial Violence

Azadeh F. Osanloo, Sarah J. Baker, Kristine Velasquez, Rick Marlatt, and Noelle Witherspoon Arnold