Compassionate leadership for school improvement and renewal

Compassionate Leadership for School Improvement and Renewal aims to equip educational leaders with the knowledge, skills, and learning experiences necessary to approach their work from an intentional stance of compassion. Schools serve as both sites and sources of suffering; yet compassionate leader...

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Other Authors Lasater, Kara (Editor), LaVenia, Kristina N., 1970- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2024]
SeriesLeadership for school improvement
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601202
DOI10.1108/9798887304731
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Endorsements. Foreword / Mónica Byrne-Jiménez
  • Introduction / Kara Lasater and Kristina N. LaVenia
  • Part I: Cultivating compassion through reflective, contemplative learning experiences
  • Chapter 1. Leaders cultivate compassion and dignity within themselves and their schools / William R. Penuel, Ashley Seidel Potvin, Sona Dimidjian, and Thupten Jinpa
  • Chapter 2. Leading with relational compassion: A contemplative professional education journey towards collective liberation / Wayne Serebrin
  • Chapter 3. Living in circle: Reflections on compassionate leadership and living the terms of truth and reconciliation / Kelly Hanson and Sabre Cherkowski
  • Chapter 4. Emotional labor & school leaders' compassionate practice: The importance of relational skills development / Kristina N. LaVenia, Kara Lasater, and Marlise Lonn
  • Part II: Conceptualizing compassionate leadership
  • Chapter 5. Why care about compassionate leadership? The relationship between compassionate leadership and teacher work engagement, burnout, and creative and respectful behaviors towards students / Liat Eldor
  • Chapter 6. Caretaker leadership: Conceptualizing school principals as compassionate servant leaders / Sonya D. Hayes and Erin Anderson
  • Chapter 7. Practicing compassionate leadership during times of collective adversity: Lessons from posttraumatic growth research and appreciative inquiry / Kelly Gesmundo Clarke
  • Part III: Practicing compassionate leadership
  • Chapter 8. Strategies for leading schools with compassion / Jo Beth Jimerson, Kathleen Kyzar, and Brandy Quinn
  • Chapter 9. Resisting the single story of addiction: Schools as sources of compassion and support for families with substance use disorders / Kara Lasater and Kristina N. LaVenia
  • Chapter 10. Compassionate leadership through instructional vision for special education / Chris Willis, Kristina N. LaVenia, and Kara Lasater
  • Chapter 11. Conclusion: Compassion in an era of incivility / Kara Lasater
  • Biographies.