Caring in Crisis: Stories to Inspire and Guide School Leaders

This book provides 40 true stories of caring school leadership during times of crisis, highlighting the importance of putting people first and adopting caring people-first strategies. It offers helpful lists, reflection, and prompts to engage with the story learnings and prepare leaders to be concerned, caring, and constant during school crises.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 13 July 2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

Caring school leadership is essential during times of crisis, as each crisis brings its own unique challenges and traumas. Instead of focusing solely on triage and logistics, leaders should prioritize the well-being of their students and staff. This book offers 40 real stories from a diverse range of schools and settings, showcasing how caring school leadership adopted people-first strategies during various types of crises.

The introduction provides an overview of what crisis and caring school leadership entail, including helpful lists to guide leadership practices. It also reviews current crisis management literature and includes questions, reflection, and prompts to engage with the story learnings.

By preparing now to be the concerned, caring, and constant leader your school will need during crises, as well as making your leadership and school more caring when those same crises subside, you can ensure that your students and staff receive the support and care they need during difficult times.

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.
Helpful lists to guide caring leadership practices.
A review of current crisis management literature.
Questions, reflection, and prompts to engage with story learnings.

By preparing 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, you can ensure that your students and staff receive the support and care they need during difficult times.

Weight: 258g
Dimension: 177 x 254 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781071846988