Teacher “Quality” and Social Justice Leadership 
	Kristien Marquez-Zenkov, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
	Diane Corrigan, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
	Christina Brockett, James F. Rhodes High School, Cleveland, OH

This essay presents a notion of social justice- and leadership-oriented 
teacher “quality” upon which urban teacher preparation might be founded. 
Few current definitions and assessments of teacher quality consider the 
goals the authors identify as most important: activist-oriented traits 
and holistic evaluation methods of these characteristics. This paper 
includes a description of a Masters licensure program focused on this 
social justice concept of leadership and the portfolio assessment system 
used to determine future urban teachers’ implementation of this concept.