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This book is the result of a coming together of the four of us to think, teach, learn, work, build relationships, and imagine into the future with each other. We are each grateful for the others in this endeavor, and recognize how each of us is also the result of a coming together of our respective families, communities, and experiences who we wish to acknowledge here.

We extend enormous gratitude to Susan Hills, Joy Scott Ressler, Kathleen Florio, Liz Wegner, and the rest of the team at ASCD. We thank them for seeing the value in this project and for making this work better, more coherent and accessible, and a part of the present-day equity leadership discussion. Your ongoing support, encouragement, suggestions, and guidance have pushed us to make this work the best it could be and shown us how to do so. We thank you!

We are also indebted to our larger communities of scholars across the country and around the world, who have both supported this work and nourished us professionally. We are motivated and enriched to be in community with you. We are grateful for all of our colleagues who we have connected with through UCEA, AERA Div A, the LSJ-SIG, and AESA.

We thank our families—immediate, extended, and created—who keep us grounded in the importance of quality time, family traditions, school activities, and making the world a more just and equitable place. Thank you for your care and time to encourage, push, eat, drink, and play with us. This book is a direct result of your support and love.

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Sharon expresses her deepest gratitude to her coauthors: Our partnership and this outcome are a pinnacle in my life; words cannot express what an unmatched privilege this has been. Thank you to the countless individuals who have been so generous in their mentorship and tangible support throughout my entire career, especially Bruce Kramer, who not only taught me so much about my work, but even through his passing, how to lead every day in every way. I am forever and joyfully indebted to the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation for believing in my leadership capacity long before I did; your generous funding of my leadership development has altered the trajectory of my life and certainly expanded my capacity to meaningfully improve our education system. I am grateful to my scholar-siblings and cherished friends, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen, Leslie Hazle Bussey, Latish Reed, Tanetha Grosland, Madeline Hafner, Hollie Mackey, Joanne Marshall, and countless others in the LSJ-SIG, AERA Div. A, and UCEA: You show me the way, and I thank you all for sharing your knowledge, wisdom, and beautiful spirits with me. I am ever thankful for my colleagues at the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center at IUPUI, especially Seena Skelton, Tiffany Kyser, and Kathleen King Thorius: You have taught me—in practice and with love—how to speak up and invite others into the difficult but vital work we must do. My dear friend and teaching partner, Marisol Chiclana-Ayala: Your wisdom, knowledge, generosity, and friendship have not only made me a better professional, but more importantly, a better person. My graduate assistant, Amanda Steepleton: You have done so much to make me a better teacher and are always supportive, dependable, skillful, and wise; your work, loyalty, and courage to speak your truth in the last four years have been invaluable and are present in this book. I am grateful for my former colleagues in the K–12 system in Minnesota, as well as my colleagues and students at St. Catherine University; you all have helped me learn the best lessons about the joy and messiness of education, organizations, and social justice. And last, but not at all least, I thank my sister, Joann Gillis: You are the best part of our family; I thank you for being you and for loving me so completely and unconditionally.

Gretchen acknowledges her coauthors on this project, Sharon I. Radd, Mark Anthony Gooden, and George Theoharis. Special recognition to my colleagues in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership in the School of Education at Duquesne University, especially Amy Olson, Connie Moss, and Rick McCown; to Miguel A. Guajardo, Francisco Guajardo, Chris Janson, Matt Militello, and Lynda Tredway and those educators planning and conducting Community Learning Exchanges (CLE); to my professors and colleagues from UNC Chapel Hill who shaped me and my work, George Noblit, Rhonda Jeffries, Paula Groves Price, and Sheryl Cozart; and to my former and current students who are also my teachers and friends, Jacqueline Roebuck Sakho, Tyra Good, Renee Knox, Tia Wanzo, Ramona Crawford, and Carol Schoenecker.

Mark truly appreciates the supportive and committed coauthors of this book for giving of themselves in significant ways. I am so much better for that. I also appreciate my dear colleagues at Teachers College, Columbia University and The University of Texas-Austin, Terrance Green, H. Richard Milner IV, Muhammad Khalifa, Linda Tillman, Michael Dantley, Philip T.K. Daniel, Khaula Murtadha, Kofi Lomotey, Michelle Young, April Peters-Hawkins, Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, Dana Thompson Dorsey, Ann O'Doherty, Sonya Douglass Horsford, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen, Terri Watson, Terah Venzant Chambers, Anjalé Welton, Daniel Spikes, Decoteau Irby, Bradley Davis, James Davis, Judy Alston, María Luisa González, Gary Crow, Jay Scribner, J. John Harris, Colleen Capper, Sheneka Williams, Cindy Reed, Andrea Rorrer, Mónica Byrne Jimenez, Victoria Showunmi, Larry Parker, Michelle Knight-Manuel, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Erica Walker, and all of the UTAPP and SPA-NYC cohorts I was blessed to engage with as we learned about leadership.

George acknowledges his remarkable coauthors of this book for this wonderful professional collaboration. I am really proud to have done this together. I hold a deep sense of appreciation for the larger communities of scholars that have both supported this work and nourished me professionally. I am motivated and enriched to be in the company of Martin Scanlan, John Rogers, Tara Affolter, Steve Hoffman, Deb Hoffman, Jeff Brooks, Joanne Marshall, Frank Hernandez, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Jessica Rigby, Sonya Douglass Horsford, Josh Bornstein, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen, Leslie Hazle Bussey, Michael Dantley, Madeline Hafner, Terah Venzant Chambers, Terri Watson, Dave DeMatthews, Nancy Parachini, Colleen Capper, and Terrance Green. I deeply appreciate my inspiring colleagues as well as equity team collaborators from Syracuse: Leela George, Courtney Mauldin, Marcelle Haddix, Beth Myers, Tom Bull, Christy Ashby, Nate Franz, Sara Gentile, Corey Williams, Meredith Devennie, and Ben Steuerwalt. I appreciate the wisdom and friendship I have gained from my many, many teaching and leadership students who have (knowingly or not) been a part of the development of this book for years.