Shane Safir

Shane Safir has worked at every level of the education system, from the classroom to the boardroom, for over 25 years. In 2003, after teaching in San Francisco and Oakland and organizing in the community to launch a new public high school, Safir became the founding principal of June Jordan School for Equity (JJSE), an innovative national model written about by leading scholar Linda Darling-Hammond. For over a decade, Shane has provided equity-centered leadership coaching, strategic planning, and professional learning support for schools, districts, and organizations across the U.S., Canada, and beyond. She facilitates workshops on Listening Leadership, becoming a warm demander, and Street Data. She is the author of The Listening Leader: Creating the Conditions for Equitable School Transformation (Jossey-Bass, 2017) and the bestselling Street Data: A Next-Generation Model for Equity, Pedagogy, and School Transformation (Corwin, 2021), coauthored with Dr. Jamila Dugan. Her forthcoming book, Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency (Corwin, August 2025) is coauthored with Marlo Bagsik, Dr. Sawsan Jaber, and Dr. Crystal M. Watson