Educational Leadership: Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, and Nations breaks new ground by connectingmany ideas to educational leadership that have traditionally been discussed as part of leaders' contextsby connecting them and showing how international issues can unite scholars and educators in action.The book draws on the authors' extensive experiences in U.S. public schools, research in the field of educationalleadership, and programmatic practices to prepare school leaders to commit themselves to socialjustice.The book provides a forum for this important work in the ongoing conversation about equity and excellencein education, and the role(s) leadership can assume in building bridges among ideas, people, and educationalorganizations. Chapters center on creating spaces for vigorous dialogue. Authors call upon scholars and practitioners to reconsider their intentto empower those who live on the margins. The dynamic approaches discussed throughout the book urge school leaders, teachers, school communitymembers, and those who prepare administrators to look within and build bridges between themselves and those they serve.