Emerald Handbook of Wellbeing in School Leadership

Keith D. Walker is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.Benjamin Kutsyuruba is Professor in Educational Policy, Leadership, and School Law in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, Canada.Julia Mahfouz is Associate Professor in the Leadership for Educational Organizations program, School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, USA.Sabre Cherkowski is Professor in the Okanagan School of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

This handbook makes a timely and important intervention in educational leadership scholarship by demonstrating how leadership is implicated in the production of wellbeing across complex systems, rather than merely responding to its absence. By foregrounding interdependence across individual, organisational, and systemic levels, the handbook provides both conceptual clarity and empirical insight. It is a serious and welcome contribution to ongoing debates about the purposes and practices of educational leadership that will resonate across research, policy, and professional audiences.

• Foreword; Haim ShakedChapter 1. Introduction: Promoting Leader and Organizational Wellbeing in Schools; Julia Mahfouz, Sabre Cherkowski, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, and Keith D. WalkerSection One. School Leader WellbeingChapter 2. Wellbeing and Resilience of School Leaders in Solomon Islands; Kabini Sanga and Martyn ReynoldsChapter 3. Enhancing the Wellbeing of Novice and Mid-Career School Principals through ONSIDE Mentoring: Unidirectional and Bidirectional Approaches; Andrew J. Hobson and Linda J. SearbyChapter 4. A Framework for School Leader Wellbeing: Understanding the Interaction between Self and Environment; Ashlyen SinghChapter 5. Enhancing the Wellbeing and Resilience of Aspiring and New School Principals through Intentional Self-Care Practices; Marie-Christine Rivest, Roula Hadchiti, and Andréanne Gélinas-ProulxChapter 6. Flourishing as School Leaders in England: Challenge Partners’ Growing the Top Program Experiences; Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Nadia Arghash, Deborah Outhwaite, Megan Crawford, and Shelly GelmanChapter 7. Educator Wellbeing and Resilience within a Continuum of School Leadership Preparation; Tyrone Bynoe and David ErsigChapter 8. Wellbeing Languishing, Retirement and Hindsight: A Five-Year Retrospective Comparison of Ontario School Leaders; Sharlene McHolmChapter 9. The Resilience and Wellbeing of Black School Leaders: Interrogating Coloniality in Canada, Grenada, and Jamaica; Donna H. Swapp, Annette R. Walker, Fei Wang, and Katina PollockSection Two. Leadership Wellbeing for ImpactChapter 10. Relationality at the Core of Wellbeing: Perspectives from Early Childhood Education Teacher Leaders in Nepal; Sanam Maskey and Buddi Kumar ShresthaChapter 11. The Intentional Leader: What Teachers Say Works for Fostering Professional Wellbeing; Sherri Humphrys and Kate SysonChapter 12. Effects of a Cohort Model on Student Wellbeing: Experiences of Educational Leaders in a Ph.D. Program; Marissa Cisneros-Perez, Joseph Hernandez, Jennifer Lomas, Maricela Passmore, and Mariela A. RodríguezChapter 13. Towards Flourishing School Leadership in Saskatchewan: An Analysis of Job Resources during and beyond COVID-19; Pamela Osmond-Johnson and Donna H. SwappChapter 14. Leading Under Pressure: Expressive Writing as a Pathway to Resilience in School Leaders; Lisa Devall-MartinChapter 15. Educational Leading and Ethical Fortitude: A Perspective on Being and Wellbeing in Morals, Ethics and Transformative Leadership; Sheila McWattersChapter 16. Principal’s Understanding of Instructional Leadership: Perspectives of School Leaders from Community High Schools in the Solomon Islands; Eric Irosaki and Billy Fito’oChapter 17. Cultivating Trauma Informed Spaces in Education to Support Educator Wellbeing; Nicole JohnsonChapter 18. So, the Principal is Away, Now What? Five Best Wellbeing Practices for Effective Emergency Leadership Transition; Kimberlee JohnstonSection Three. Organization and System-Level WellbeingChapter 19. Structures and Processes of a Flourishing School; Angela C. Adair, Ellen H. Reames, and Shannon McCurdyChapter 20. Storytelling as a Tool for Appreciative Leaders: Cultivating Wellbeing and Inclusion in Polarized School and Community Contexts; Ayodeji Osiname and Jacqueline KirkChapter 21. Reimagining School Improvement: A Strength-Based Process to Cultivate Wellbeing and Resilience in Learning Organizations; Daryl FG MorrisonChapter 22. Wellbeing and Resilience in a School Organization; Kristen LeeChapter 23. The Collaborative Wellness Framework: A Culturally Responsive Approach to School-Based Mindfulness Implementation; Susan J. DavisChapter 24. Growing Gardens in the Trenches: A Hope-Resilient Approach for School Health Promotion; Danielle DenichaudChapter 25. The Growth Framework: A Catalyst for Educator Wellbeing and Resilience; Sonia Di MauloChapter 26. Mental Health in Schools: A Provincial Overview and a School Case Study; Sharon Friesen, Stephen MacGregor, Gina Cherkowski, Jennifer Turner, and Dennis SumaraChapter 27. Mobilizing HEARTcare Planning: A Multiple Case Research Study; Astrid H. Kendrick, Lisa M. Everitt, Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Carlyn Volume-Smith, and Trent WaterhouseChapter 28. Conclusion: Rethinking Educational Leadership through the Lens of Wellbeing; Keith D. Walker, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Sabre Cherkowski, and Julia Mahfouz