Educational leaders must be prepared to lead during crisis. Leadership has been challenged with multiple crisis in recent years, including issues of school safety, school shootings, medical crises such as SARs, HINI, and the ongoing pandemic. While each of these situations has resulted in multiple plans of actions, none has impacted our society as…

In "Crisis as Catalyst," Patricia M. Virella uncovers opportunities for school leaders to act as agents of equity and inclusivity during crisis situations. Virella interviewed dozens of school principals across the United States and Puerto Rico, and in this book she shares the key lessons from their experiences with crisis events of all…

In 2010, at the beginning of my doctoral program at Northeastern University, I started a project to examine a teacher's emotional and professional repercussions from witnessing a school shooting. I had read articles indicating that school personnel need support after such an event, but I found minimal scholarly literature on this subject. The need…