Caring in Crisis

List of Illustrations 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

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. Joseph F. Murphy is the Frank W. Mayborn Chair and associate dean at Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt University. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The Ohio State University, where he was the William Ray Flesher Professor of Education. In the public schools, he has served as an administrator at the school, district, and state levels, including an appointment as the executive assistant to the chief deputy superintendent of public instruction in California. His most recent appointment was as the founding president of the Ohio Principals Leadership Academy. At the university level, he has served as department chair and associate dean. He is past vice president of the American Educational Research Association and was the founding chair of the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). He is co-editor of the AERA Handbook on Educational Administration (1999) and editor of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) yearbook, The Educational Leadership Challenge (2002). His work is in the area of school improvement, with special emphasis on leadership and policy. He has authored or co-authored 18 books in this area and edited another 12. His most recent authored volumes include Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement (2002), Leadership for Literacy: Research-Based Practice, PreK-3 (2003), Connecting Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (2005), Preparing School Leaders: Defining a Research and Action Agenda (2006), and Turning Around Failing Schools: Lessons From the Organizational Sciences.