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Mark A. Smylie is professor of education emeritus in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and visiting professor in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Before his work in higher education, Smylie was a high school social studies teacher. Smylie served as secretary-treasurer of the National Society for the Study of Education and as a director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in the American Education Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Journal of School Leadership, and Review of Research in Education. Smylie has worked with schools, school districts, and school administrator and teacher professional associations through joint projects, advising, and school leader development activities. He has served on advisory boards of numerous regional and national professional and policy organizations concerned with education generally and leadership in particular. Smylie's research focuses on school organization, leadership, and change.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction: Crises and Caring School Leadership
Crisis Comes
The Meaning of Crisis
Crisis Leadership and the Through Line of Caring
Caring School Leadership in Times of Crisis
Guide for Engaging the Stories
Overview of Practices
Questions That Promote Understanding
Questions That Prompt Application
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 Isn't Working!
14. Imagine the Possibilities
15. On Day 2, 9/11
16. Responding to the Crises
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. "With Every Difficulty, There Is Relief"
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
A Culture of Caring
Who Cares for the Caring School Leader?
Bibliography
Learn, reflect and grow from 40 true stories of caring school leadership during times of crisis
When faced with crises, most leaders handle the moment by leaning into triage and logistics. This book challenges you and your teams to adopt caring people-first strategies instead. Let these 40 stories, from a wide range of schools and crises situations, help you prepare for, perhaps prevent, respond to, and recover from your own school crises. Within these pages, you will find:
