Abstract
TandemEd facilitates Black communities to create campaigns that highlight their positive racial identity and self-defined educational purpose. This article examines leadership of the initial implementation phase of the TandemEd community initiative in relationship with the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) focusing primarily on the interactions with the superintendent and executive director of the superintendent’s office. The results included ongoing support from PPS as TandemEd formed a citywide steering committee of highly community legitimated persons, executed a leadership and campaign academy for thirty-five Pittsburgh youth, and facilitated design and delivery of various cable television commercials on identity and purpose in the Greater Pittsburgh region. It utilized the organizational framework established in Reframing Organizations by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal (1991). The implication being that while a relationship with a public school district at the onset of TandemEd city entry is of value, the greater value is found in first establishing a strong community-legitimated effort and intersecting with the district more deeply in later implementation phases. Additionally, there is transformative value for school and district leaders to be responsive to Black community leadership of education.
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Barnes, Brian C B
(2023)
"Leading the Initial Implementation Phase of TandemEd in Relationship with the Pittsburgh Public Schools,"
Journal of Research Initiatives: Vol. 7:
Iss.
2, Article 10.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/jri/vol7/iss2/10
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