Called to Sankofa
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Called to Sankofa

Leading In, Through and Beyond DisasterA Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans

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  2. English
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Called to Sankofa

Leading In, Through and Beyond DisasterA Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans

About this book

Called to Sankofa is a collection of Hurricane Katrina survival stories by African American education leaders in New Orleans. It draws upon the West African concept, Sankofa, which loosely translates to "return to the source and fetch." The griots, through their stories, fetch salvageable and knowledge-laden valuables linked to their resilience and rebuilding efforts. Thus, the Sankofa concept serves as a lens for examining leadership in the aftermath of disaster; it serves as an intense magnifier and illuminator of lessons considered relevant and profoundly valuable to guide one's understanding of how to lead in, through and beyond disaster. Past experiences yield teachable moments. The lessons excerpted from these moments reveal the sources from which the leaders draw the resilience to recover from trauma, the vision to guide others, the courage to challenge the status quo, the imagination to make a way where there is none and the stamina to press beyond peril toward an unpromised future.

Called to Sankofa rejects the assumption that "all was broken" in education—either before or due to Katrina, and through the storytellers, we are reminded that to rebuild things better than before, one must take stock of, extract meaning from and be guided by what constituted the "before." Hence, Called to Sankofa documents the leaders' acts of resilience, optimism, strength, passion and resolve and details the support structures and sources of inspiration that enabled within them the capacity to adapt to the chaotic and uncertain environments and to be moved to action and leadership.

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Yes, you can access Called to Sankofa by Tammie M. Causey-Konaté, Margaret Montgomery-Richard, Rochelle Brock, Cynthia B. Dillard in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword: Mending a City of Broken Hearts and Lost Treasures (Norman C. Francis)
  4. Preface (Tammie M. Causey-Konaté)
  5. Chapter One: Efforts to Return to Normalcy: Lessons Learned and Value Added in the Aftermath of Katrina (Matthew Causey)
  6. Chapter Two: Sankofa Crossing: To Katrina and Back (Tammie M. Causey-Konaté)
  7. Chapter Three: Leading In, Through and Beyond Disaster: An African American Woman’s Account of Leadership Pre- and Post-Katrina (Margaret Montgomery-Richard)
  8. Chapter Four: Beyond Disaster: The Journey of an African-American Woman’s Leadership Experience at a Two-Year Postsecondary Institution and a Historically Black University (Toya Barnes-Teamer)
  9. Chapter Five: Orleans Parish School Board Politics and Policy Post-Katrina (Torin T. Sanders)
  10. Chapter Six: A Community of Survivors (Darlene Morgan Brown)
  11. Chapter Seven: When Absence Is Sufficient (Elenora Mackey Cushenberry)
  12. Afterword: A Storm by Any Other Name (Tammie M. Causey-Konaté)
  13. About the Editors
  14. About the Contributors
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