Leading through a crisis: caring, supportive, and social justice leadership of school principals in Israel’s minority Arab society

Mowafaq Qadach, PhD, senior lecturer, Department of Education, Al-Qasemi—College of Education, Israel. He is Head of the Departmentof Management and Organization of Educational Institutions. His research areas include teachers’ collective efficacy, organizational learning mechanisms, instructional leadership, principals’ learning, students’ achievements, and self regulated learning.

Dr Enas Qadan holds a PhD in Educational Administration. Her PhD dissertation dealt with the cultural dimension of Arab principals and its relation to their administrative tactics for influencing employees in the Arab minority sector in Israel. Qadan has been a lecturer in Al-Qasemi Academic College in both the B.Ed. and M.Ed. programs of Educational Leadership and Creativity in Developing Societies since 2010. Qadan and her colleagues developed a computerized system called Madim for measuring teacher knowledge through the TPaCK model.

Dr Wisam A. Chaleila is an associate visiting professor at the University of Delaware and a faculty member at Al-Qasemi Academic College. She holds a joint-Ph.D. degree in English from The University of Haifa in Israel and KU Leuven in Belgium. She was enrolled in a postdoctoral program at KU Leuven. Chaleila specializes in literature and English teaching. Her research spans teaching approaches, linguistics and literature, leadership, AI ethics and speculative futures, poetic and social justice, identity, social Darwinism, racism, and ecofeminism and decolonialism.