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Caring in Crisis
Stories to Inspire and Guide School Leaders
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About this book
Learn, reflect, and grow from 40 true stories of caring school leadership during times of crisis
Each crisis brings its own issues and unique traumas, and when they happen, most leaders handle the moment by leaning into triage and logistics. This book suggests focusing on moreāspecifically, on the people they serve. Are you up to the task?Ā
These 40 real stories, from a wide range of schools and settings during many types of crises, show how caring school leadership adopted caring people-first strategies. This book will help you and your teams be inspired to prepare for, perhaps prevent, respond to, and recover from your own school crises. Within these pages, you will find:
Prepare now to be the concerned, caring, and constant leader your school will need when crises come as well as making your leadership and school more caring when those same crises subside.Ā
Each crisis brings its own issues and unique traumas, and when they happen, most leaders handle the moment by leaning into triage and logistics. This book suggests focusing on moreāspecifically, on the people they serve. Are you up to the task?Ā
These 40 real stories, from a wide range of schools and settings during many types of crises, show how caring school leadership adopted caring people-first strategies. This book will help you and your teams be inspired to prepare for, perhaps prevent, respond to, and recover from your own school crises. Within these pages, you will find:
- An introduction to what crisis and caring school leadership means
- Ā Helpful lists to guide caring leadership practices
- A review of current crisis management literature
- Questions, reflection, and prompts to engage with story learnings
Prepare now to be the concerned, caring, and constant leader your school will need when crises come as well as making your leadership and school more caring when those same crises subside.Ā
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Yes, you can access Caring in Crisis by Mark A. Smylie,Joseph F. Murphy in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education Administration. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction: Crises and Caring School Leadership
- Guide for Engaging the Stories
- The Stories
- 1. Through the Eyes of Children
- 2. Speak Life
- 3. Giving Ourselves Permission to Be Human
- 4. Building a Family
- 5. Reflections on Healing Staff With Compassion
- 6. Caring for Kids by Taking Care of Teachers
- 7. Laura
- 8. Guarding Against Sexual Misconduct
- 9. One Sows, Another Reaps
- 10. A Million Times More
- 11. Commitment to Community Health
- 12. Da Bears!
- 13. My Zoom Isnāt Working!
- 14. Imagine the Possibilities
- 15. On Day 2, 9/11
- 16. Responding to the Crises76
- 17. A Deadly Threat
- 18. Start Simple
- 19. Keeping Connected With the Kids
- 20. Prioritizing Our Students
- 21. A District Office Caring for Teachers
- 22. We Need to Talk About Sarah
- 23. Coping With Loss
- 24. Bring Your Dog to Work Days
- 25. āWith Every Difficulty, There Is Reliefā
- 26. Tone Deafness
- 27. Centering on Community
- 28. Biting
- 29. The Magnolia
- 30. No One Saw It Coming
- 31. No Hugs, No Bugs
- 32. Two Storms in One Week
- 33. And Then There Was Mold
- 34. I Am Here for You
- 35. Winning and Losing
- 36. Summer Meals
- 37. Sharing the Peace
- 38. The Tsunami
- 39. Leading Through the Storm
- 40. The Work of My Life
- Coda
- Bibliography
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