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As more Latino K-12 educators make their way to the leadership ranks in America's public schools, how will researchers document these educators' contributions to the American public education system? A more significant question is how can we begin to understand the complexity of the K-12 Latino school principal? This study lights the lived experiences of Latino principals that often go unnoticed and undervalued in educational leadership research. Acknowledging Latino experiences as legitimate and valuable, studies such as this one can begin to place the experiences of Latino principals at the forefront of leadership research also bring validation to the knowledge that Latino principals generate. By studying Latino K-12 school principals, the body of knowledge surrounding educational leadership theory can begin to broaden and bring forth alternative views of leading and leadership. In order to capture this complexity and hear voices on leadership that are rarely, if ever, heard, I will employ a critical qualitative study in conjunction with a life history methodology and examine effective Latino K-12 principals and their views on leadership and leading. In order to answer the posed question, it will be important to answer several sub-questions: What is the racial identity development of selected Latino principals? How has their racial identity impacted their leadership practices? What are the conditions under which racial identity development is expressed and/or suppressed in their practice and what are the mediating factors that prevent the full expression of their racial identity?
The conceptual framework for my proposed study is drawn by the theoretical work on Latino racial identity development (Ferdman & Gallegos, 2001) and influenced by the work of critical race theorists (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001; Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, & Thomas, 1995; Bell, 1992; Solórzano & Yosso, 2000; Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995), standpoint theory (Bloom & Erlandson, 2003); and Latino critical theory, also known as LatCrit (Valdes et. al., 1998). I will use snowballing (Glesne, 1999) to identify six Latino principals in the upper Midwest. I will use an in-depth phenomenological interviewing process (Seidman, 1998), collect artifacts, and make observations as means of collecting data. Once the data are collected, I will code it using qualitative software.
I will rely on both the answers to my research questions and the counterstories gathered from the Latino principals to situate Latino principals in a Latino racial identity development orientation model and to identify leadership practices specific to that orientation. Finally, I hope to develop a new theory that can support other researchers who are, or will be, conducting research on Latino principals and their views on leadership and leading.