Book Talk: Radical Care with Rosa Rivera-McCutchen
The Urban Education PhD program invites you to join this book talk with Professor Rosa Rivera McCutchen on jer new book Radical Care: Leading for Justice in Urban Schools. Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. She will be joined by Jane Higgins, Evelyn Bautista-Miller, Jane Quinn, Mariatere Tapias, and Kym Vanderbilt. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public schools, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen outlines the five components of radical care: adopting an antiracist stance, cultivating authentic relationships, believing in students’ and teachers’ capacity for excellence, leveraging power strategically, and embracing a spirit of radical hope. To demonstrate practical strategies, the author shares vignettes from her personal experiences that exemplify each of the components. Calling for today’s school leaders to thoughtfully challenge existing structures that reproduce inequality, Radical Care offers a much-needed framework that will guide leadership practice with a sense of urgency and a spirit of hope.
Dr. Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen is an Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at CUNY Lehman College, a Hispanic Serving Institution in the Bronx, where she also serves as the coordinator of School and District Leader certification programs. Dr. Rivera-McCutchen is also an affiliated faculty member in the Urban Education PhD Program at CUNY Graduate Center, and a faculty affiliate at the NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools.
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