Culturally responsive school leadership (CRSL) is essential to research regardingculturally responsive pedagogy, reform, and social justice education. This comprehensive study sought to provide a responsive framework for the needs of diverse students via a holistic
approach, not limited to culturally sustaining pedagogy. This study included the clarifying
strands of CRSL: critical self-awareness, teacher preparation, school environments, and
community advocacy. CRSL behaviors and their focus on equity, inclusion, advocacy, and social
justice in public schools. This analysis revealed historically marginalized students and
communities' rich narratives of agency, appropriation, and resistance to oppression;
Nevertheless, this term also recognizes the history of injustices their people have faced
and the need for schools to resist continuing the contexts of oppression. Because young
scholars in marginalized communities endure oppressive structures, including educational
institutions, culturally responsive school leaders have an ethical responsibility to counter this
oppression. This research drew upon current research on leadership, social justice,
culturally responsive schooling, and historically marginalized communities. This study
reflects leadership’s continued promise and implications for community-based schooling.