Ethical Leadership: What Does That Really Mean?

Hargreaves is director of CHENINE (Change, Engagement and Innovation in Education) at the University of Ottawa and research professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. He is the past president of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement, a recent adviser in education to the Premier of Ontario and currently to the First Minister of Scotland. He is the founder of the ARC Education—a group of nations committed to excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy, and human rights.

Hargreaves has consulted with the OECD, the World Bank, governments, universities, and teachers’ unions worldwide. Andy’s more than 30 books have attracted multiple Outstanding Writing Awards – including the prestigious 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education for Professional Capital (with Michael Fullan). He has been honored with the 2016 Horace Mann Award in the United States and the Robert Owen Award in Scotland for services to public education. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His most recent book is Moving: A Memoir of Social Mobility and Education.

Skerrett is a professor in the language and literacy studies program and an affiliate faculty member in the cultural studies in education program at the University of Texas, Austin. She is also the director of Teacher Education in the College of Education at the university. Skerrett serves as the director and faculty adviser for the University of Texas Urban Teachers secondary English teacher education programs. Her teaching and research focus on secondary English education in urban contexts, adolescent literacy practices in and outside school, transnational youths’ literacy practices and learning, and sociocultural influences on teaching and learning.