Mark A. Smylie & Joseph F. Murphy 
Caring in Crisis [PDF ebook] 
Stories to Inspire and Guide School Leaders

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

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, Pre K-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.