Leading With Resilience

Özge Hacıfazlıoğlu is a professor of practice in education at the School of Education, University of California, USA.Rebecca Cheung is Assistant Dean and Associate Adjunct Professor of the Leadership Development programs, including the Principal Leadership Institute and LEAD EdD, at the Berkeley School of Education, University of California, USA.Chunyan Yang is an Associate Professor of School Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

The trio of editors of Leading With Resilience: Voices of Leaders in Challenging Times have deep understandings of the issues this book brings into focus – the complexity and nuance of fostering professional learning and personal-social growth of school leaders. Their insights stem from each having decades of extensive yet varied experiences guiding and supporting educational leaders at all levels, particularly during these uniquely challenging times from the COVID pandemic to the present. When a trio is in harmony, there are no discords. Additionally, however, through the chapter authors and school leaders who were studied and profiled, the editors have also orchestrated a diverse chorus of voices that cross generations, gender, and geographies. These vibrant voices throughout the book’s ten chapters are heard in three inter-related movements: Understanding Resilience through the Voices of Leaders, Professional Support Structures for Cultivating Resilience, and Cultivating Resilience as an Essential Leadership Practice. This book provides cogent, engaging, and research-based analyses that will stimulate generative discussions among educational leaders and scholars alike to more fully understand how resilience is critical to the equitable transformation of schools. It also makes clear, as implied in the Foreword, that songs of resilience and leadership are not sung solo.

• Foreword: Resilience is not a Solo Act; Michelle D. YoungIntroduction; Özge Hacıfazlıoğlu, Rebecca Cheung, and Chunyan YangSection I. Challenges And Voices From The FieldChapter 1. Understanding Risk and Resilience in California's School Principals; Rebecca Cheung, Aukeem Ballard, Meg Stomski, Ozge Hacıfazlıoğlu, and Chunyan Yang Chapter 2. Cultivating Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Voices from Principals in the US; Rebecca Cheung, Meg Stomski, Aukeem Ballard, Chunyan Yang, and Ozge HacıfazlıoğluChapter 3. The Change Maker Collective: Leaders Building Resilience Through a Community of Practice; Soraya Sablo SuttonChapter 4. AAPI Leadership Voices and Reflections on Finding Resilience During a Time of Anti-Asian Violence; Mai Xi Lee and Chunyan YangChapter 5. Stories of Resilience from Women of Color Superintendents; Tu Moua CarrozSection II. Professional Support Structures for Cultivating Resilience and Well BeingChapter 6. Navigating the First Year: Exploring Professional and Social Support for New Teachers; Ella Rho, Jin Hyung Lim, Chunyan Yang, Meg Stomski, and Özge HacıfazlıoğluChapter 7. The Role of Professional Communities for School Leaders: Supporting Critical Reflection to Lead for Equity; Aki Murata, Xueqin Lin, and Quennie DongChapter 8. Fostering Intellectual Wellbeing Through Research Informed Communities of Practice: A Case Study of an American Boarding School in Switzerland; Özge Hacıfazlıoğlu, Bilge Kalkavan, Paul Magnuson, and Patrick AlexanderChapter 9. Building Resilience Through Interprofessional Preparation: A Case Study at University of California Berkeley; Rebecca Cheung, Kathryn Perry, Özge Hacıfazlıoğlu, and Lihi RosenthalChapter 10. Cross Institutional Reflections on Resilience: Voices of Research and Leadership from EdPrepLab and Bank Street College; Jessica Charles, Maria E. Hyler, Joy Rushing, Patricia Virella, and Cathy YunAfterword: Resilience as a Collective Action for Social Justice Leadership; Özge Hacıfazlıoğlu, Rebecca Cheung, and Chunyan Yang