Through the Pandemic Portal: Turning to Community to Cultivate a Relational Paradigm of Leadership

The global pandemic opened a portal for different paradigm of educational leadership to emerge. Reaching beyond only critique the Conversations in Urban Educationentional, color-evasive research and practice, we share how our systems-focused preparation program turned ancestral knowledges, relationality, cultural practices embedded Indigenous, Black other communities color lead possible transformative futures with youth families owed profound debt. shift enabled practitioner students take up their as humanizing, liberatory practice that works toward familial relations families. We frame this journey "through portal" exceResearch Perspectivests from public pedagogy two they build own Expressions Educationeriences leaders who do not simply resist or fight unjust systems, but also dream live justice young people through education.