Smith, Phillip A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4718-6925
Article History
Received: 3 July 2024
Accepted: 26 September 2025
First Online: 18 November 2025
Declarations
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: The study and presentation of findings, Lift Every Voice and Lead: Black Men in Educational Leadership: Towards New Theories, Visions, and Understandings is supported by two separate and related research projects: “Leading While Black and Male: A Phenomenology of Black Male School Leadership”, approved by the Institutional Review Board of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York (IRB approval 17-341); and research project “The Essence of Leading While Black and Male: Toward a Model of Black Male School Leadership”, approved by the Institutional Review Board of Fordham University, New York (IRB approval 2466).
: Participation in this study is entirely voluntary. All participants were provided with detailed information about the study's purpose and procedures and gave their written informed consent to participate. Their personal information will be kept confidential, and all data collected will be anonymized in the final publication.
: The author declares no conflict of interest.