Shane Safir, Safir & Associates

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the school system, from the classroom to the boardroom, for the past 20 years. In 2003, after teaching in San Francisco and Oakland, Shane became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model identified by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond as having “beaten the odds in supporting the success of low-income students of color.” Since 2007, Safir has provided equity-centered coaching and professional learning for schools, districts, and organizations across the country. She writes for Edutopia, Ed Week, and ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine and is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation  (Jossey-Bass: 2017).