Decoteau J. Irby

Associate professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Decoteau J. Irby is an associate professor at University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. His research explores how equity-focused school leadership can be used as a lever to improve Black children and youth’s academic achievement and socioemotional well-being across a range of K–12 educational settings. He is the author of Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (2021), a children’s picture book Magical Black Tears: A Protest Story (2021), and co-editor of Black Participatory Research: Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice in Education (2016).