Transformative Leadership A Primer both delivers a complete & engaging overview of transformative leadership & also clearly distinguishes it from other popular approaches to leadership Hence this will be the text of choice for many graduate courses in educational leadership Carolyn M Shields shows how the tenets of transformative leadership interact with one another & how they provide a lens for leadership that offers an excellent inclusive equitable & socially just education for all students Using anecdotes & narratives drawn from empirical research as well as current data Dr Shields establishes how transformative leadership comprises a comprehensive approach to leadership in highly diverse contexts & how it can empower students who are traditionally marginalized due to race ethnicity sexual orientation & gender identity home language or religion Accepting a mandate for educational change reconstructing knowledge frameworks & redistributing power in more equitable ways are starting points for transformative leaders Changing the structures cultures curricula & pedagogies of the school to be more democratic & emancipatory; acknowledging our interconnectedness & interdependence with global neighbors; & accepting responsibility for promoting both public & private good are processes that implement the transformation Taken together these changes cannot be accomplished without considerable collaboration conversation & moral courage No leader wanting to promote excellence & equity for all should be without this primer that offers a new way of thinking about all aspects of schooling from facilities & fiscal issues to academic programs & school policy Transformative leadership offers a promising & robust theory of change for all situations & contexts