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Interview With a Leader Samantha Wasinger School of Public Service and Education, Capella University EDD-FPX8522: Leading a Culture of Learning and Inclusion Terrence Brown February 22 nd 2024
Equity and inclusion are crucial in today’s classroom. Equity refers to creating opportunities that allow each student to have resources that they need to be at the same level as their peers. Inclusion refers to including each person regardless of sex, gender, age, or disability. This paper will discuss an issue of equity within LeMay Elementary. The Early Childhood Lead Teacher in Bellevue Public Schools was selected to be interviewed for this paper. According to Turner (2010), interview questions should be conducted one at a time. For this reason, I compiled a list of interview questions and blocked off an hour time to ensure the participant had enough time to answer each question. Description of Interview When a person conducts an interview, they are conducting a type of qualitative research. Qualitative research aims to get human perspective on certain situations. This type of research can be helpful when a person wants to get opinions on something rather than get numerical data. Qualitative research was chosen for this as it is an interview that seeks to find human perspective on equity, inclusion, and diversity in the Bellevue Public Schools early childhood department. The interview conducted for this paper was conducting informally at LeMay. The interview was conducted with the Early Childhood Lead Teacher in Bellevue Public Schools. The participant has been in the field of Early Childhood Education for over twenty years. In the past five years, she began working with special education students. An hour of time was blocked off but the interview ended up taking about 30 minutes total. The participant was willing to share information and consented to having the interview recorded in order to create a transcript. The transcript can be found in Appendix A. Each question asked served a purpose to gain knowledge about equity and inclusion. Questions asked included concerns with staff training, disability inclusion, equitable access to
education, and general thoughts about inclusion, equity, and diversity. The responses given were detailed and gave insight into the equity and inclusion issues within Bellevue Public Schools. The interviewee states that she has been working diligently to ensure the department gets better at utilized inclusive resources. Equity and Inclusion Framework A Four Frame Model for organizations was publish by Bolman and Deal (2017). This framework model consists of structural, political, human resource, and symbolic models. Each model can be applied to different situations, including interview responses. Two frames can be applied throughout the interview. The first that could be applied is the human resource frame. The participant was asked in what ways she feels the preschool program is equitable. She answered that it is improving but she has been seeking feedback on ways to improve this area of the program. This is reflective of the human resource frame as it relies on what people want to meet the organizational goal. The participant is actively seeking feedback from the employees and wants to ensure everyone’s needs are being met. Another question that was asked represented a strong political framework answer. She was asked why the number of special education teachers in the district has decreased. She simply answered that she could not speak more about that due to policy restrictions. This relates heavily to the political framework as her answer related back to polices and rules. This was the only time throughout the interview that she was unable to answer a question due to rules and regulations. Three Adult Plateaus in Mental Complexity There are three adult plateaus in mental capacity. The three types are self-authoring mind, socialized mind, and self-transforming mind. Each of these serve a different purpose and help to
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