LibGuides: EDU 512: Educational Leadership and Societal Change: The Distinguished Practitioners Series: Carlos Azcoitia, Ed.D.

Biographical Information

Founding Principal of a new "Comprehensive Community School" concept on Chicago's Little Village Neighborhood and former Deputy Chief of Education in the Chicago Public Schools. Distinguished Professor of Practice in Educational Leadership emeritus at National Louis University.

Books Published

Creating engagement between schools and their communities : lessons from educational leaders by Ted Purinton (Editor) and Carlos Azcoitia, (Editor)
Call Number: LB 2820 .C74 2016
ISBN: 9781498521758
Publication Date: 2016
This book shares lessons from educational leaders who have stayed committed to their neighborhoods and have seen the moral imperative to provide equal opportunity to all students, particularly from community-based schools in urban, impoverished, or immigrant communities-communities often disconnected from political and economic centers in America.

Articles Published

Deciphering the Magic of Community School Leadership
By Ted Purinton, Carlos Azcoitia, and Karen Carlson in Phi Delta Kappan v99 n5 (Feb 2018): 39-42.
Developing and Supporting Educational Leaders for Successful Community Partnerships
By Carlos Azcoitia, Karen Glinert Carlson, and Ted Purinton in Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Education (8/27/20).
The Development of Academic Identity in Community Schools
By Carlos M. Azcoitia in European Scientific Journal May 2017.
The Real Turnaround
By Ted Purinton and Carlos Azcoitia in Principal Leadership v12 n2 (Oct 2011): 28-32.
Student Mobility and Local School Improvement in Chicago.
By David Kerbow, Carlos Azcoitia, and Barbara Buell in Journal of Negro Education v72 n1 (Win 2003): 158-64.