Transformative Leadership: A Primer both delivers a complete and engaging overview of transformative leadership and also clearly distinguishes it from other popular approaches to leadership. Hence this will be the text of choice for many graduate courses in educational leadership. Carolyn M. Shields shows how the tenets of transformative leadership interact with one another and how they provide a lens for leadership that offers an excellent inclusive equitable and socially just education for all students. Using anecdotes and narratives drawn from empirical research as well as current data Dr. Shields establishes how transformative leadership comprises a comprehensive approach to leadership in highly diverse contexts and how it can empower students who are traditionally marginalized due to race ethnicity sexual orientation and gender identity home language or religion. Accepting a mandate for educational change reconstructing knowledge frameworks and redistributing power in more equitable ways are starting points for transformative leaders. Changing the structures cultures curricula and pedagogies of the school to be more democratic and emancipatory; acknowledging our interconnectedness and interdependence with global neighbors; and accepting responsibility for promoting both public and private good are processes that implement the transformation. Taken together these changes cannot be accomplished without considerable collaboration conversation and moral courage. No leader wanting to promote excellence and equity for all should be without this primer that offers a new way of thinking about all aspects of schooling from facilities and fiscal issues to academic programs and school policy. Transformative leadership offers a promising and robust theory of change for all situations and contexts. Language: English