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Servant Leadership and School Crisis Management
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Author(s): Gregory Geer (Coastal Carolina University, USA)and Howard V. Coleman (Coastal Carolina University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 20
Source title:
Servant Leadership: Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Raj Selladurai (Indiana University Northwest, USA)and Shawn Carraher (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5840-0.ch006
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Abstract
In today's world, public school leaders are often called upon to deal with tragedies that include suicides, homicides, and accidental deaths. When these incidents occur in small school districts, the roles and responsibilities of school personnel become those of counselors and civic leaders. This chapter presents a case study about the experiences of a school superintendent practicing servant leadership to help heal a small community when dealing with the accidental deaths of a local family. The superintendent's responses to the tragedy are based upon the foundations of servant leadership that include empathy, mental models, reflection, self-awareness, emotional healing, listening, commitment, and community building (Goen, 2009; Spears, 2004; Greenleaf, 1977). Servant leadership practices help guide educational leaders in providing support for students, teachers, and parents in school crises.
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