The Role of an African American Principal in an Urban Information Technology High School

Abstract

The research reported here is the result of an exploration of the challenges and triumphs of an African American secondary principal who used a culture-specific leadership style in his quest to raise the standards at an information technology high school. This case study of the principal explores his combining of the elements of traditional notions of leadership with the nontraditional notions of an ethnohumanist role to create a style that complemented the changing climate in a newly restructured urban school.