ABSTRACT
This vignette focuses on how immigration influences school leadership practice and policy in a Los Angeles neighborhood. We share a school leader’s experience in the aftermath of an arrest of an undocumented immigrant parent by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The arrest occurred to a parent who dropped off his daughter at her Los Angeles neighborhood middle school. Amid growing fears of mass deportations, the arrest roiled the north Los Angeles immigrant community. We develop a series of questions for reflective discussion/activities for aspiring and practicing school leaders to become supportive and transformative leaders for diversity, immigration, and equitable school-wide excellence.
