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ABSTRACT

The featured article, How California School Principals and Teachers Engage Academic Optimism to Maximize Equity in Student Learning Within Low Socio-Economic Status (SES) Schools, studied the perceptions of 144 TK-8 urban school leaders and their staff on the effects that Academic Optimism has on supporting equitable growth in student learning within ten low SES schools. [...]this level of connection of self-awareness and critical reflection can, the authors posit, narrow the disparity gap between leaders' and educators' expectations and, indirectly, students' learning outcome. [...]this journal would not exist without the support of ICPEL and ICPEL Publications, especially Brad Bizell, who has been an invaluable member of the team.