Leading With Resilience
Voices of Leaders in Challenging Times
Will be published approx. on 6. July 2026
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-80686-360-0 (ISBN)
Description
In an era marked by uncertainty and rapid change, how do educational leaders sustain resilience, not just for themselves, but for their entire school communities? Leading With Resilience: Voices of Leaders in Challenging Times brings together powerful narratives and research-driven insights from teachers, school leaders, and system-level changemakers navigating some of the most challenging moments in recent history. brings together powerful narratives and research-driven insights from teachers, school leaders, and system-level changemakers navigating some of the most challenging moments in recent history. Drawing from three longitudinal projects in California, this compelling volume explores how resilience can be cultivated through intentional leadership, community care, and equity-centered practices.
From the frontlines of the global pandemic to the lived experiences of AAPI educators and women of color pursuing superintendency, each chapter offers a unique lens on the emotional, cultural, and systemic dimensions of resilience. These stories illuminate the strategies that have helped leaders not only survive but thrive, fostering wellbeing, driving change, and inspiring hope.
Whether you're an educator, policymaker, or aspiring leader, this book offers a timely and deeply human look at what it means to lead with strength, compassion, and purpose in times of crisis.
From the frontlines of the global pandemic to the lived experiences of AAPI educators and women of color pursuing superintendency, each chapter offers a unique lens on the emotional, cultural, and systemic dimensions of resilience. These stories illuminate the strategies that have helped leaders not only survive but thrive, fostering wellbeing, driving change, and inspiring hope.
Whether you're an educator, policymaker, or aspiring leader, this book offers a timely and deeply human look at what it means to lead with strength, compassion, and purpose in times of crisis.
Reviews / Votes
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. -- Jabari Mahiri, Professor and Faculty Director of the Berkeley School of Education Leadership Programs and Brinton Family Chair in Urban Education, USA Resilience is my nominee for the institutional and cultural virtue of the 21st century. This collection offers rich food for thought and action, inspiring and cautionary examples of leadership in stormy weather, and reminders that the best time to prepare for the next crisis is now. -- Christopher M. Clark, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University, USAMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80686-360-0 (9781806863600)
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Persons
OEzge Hacifazlioglu 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.
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.
Content
Foreword: Resilience is not a Solo Act; Michelle D. Young
Introduction; OEzge Hacifazlioglu, Rebecca Cheung, and Chunyan Yang
Section I. Challenges And Voices From The Field
Chapter 1. Understanding Risk and Resilience in California's School Principals; Rebecca Cheung, Aukeem Ballard, Meg Stomski, Ozge Hacifazlioglu, 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 Hacifazlioglu
Chapter 3. The Change Maker Collective: Leaders Building Resilience Through a Community of Practice; Soraya Sablo Sutton
Chapter 4. AAPI Leadership Voices and Reflections on Finding Resilience During a Time of Anti-Asian Violence; Mai Xi Lee and Chunyan Yang
Chapter 5. Stories of Resilience from Women of Color Superintendents; Tu Moua Carroz
Section II. Professional Support Structures for Cultivating Resilience and Well Being
Chapter 6. Navigating the First Year: Exploring Professional and Social Support for New Teachers; Ella Rho, Jin Hyung Lim, Chunyan Yang, Meg Stomski, and OEzge Hacifazlioglu
Chapter 7. The Role of Professional Communities for School Leaders: Supporting Critical Reflection to Lead for Equity; Aki Murata, Xueqin Lin, and Quennie Dong
Chapter 8. Fostering Intellectual Wellbeing Through Research Informed Communities of Practice: A Case Study of an American Boarding School in Switzerland; OEzge Hacifazlioglu, Bilge Kalkavan, Paul Magnuson, and Patrick Alexander
Chapter 9. Building Resilience Through Interprofessional Preparation: A Case Study at University of California Berkeley; Rebecca Cheung, Kathryn Perry, OEzge Hacifazlioglu, and Lihi Rosenthal
Chapter 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 Yun
Afterword: Resilience as a Collective Action for Social Justice Leadership; OEzge Hacifazlioglu, Rebecca Cheung, and Chunyan Yang
Introduction; OEzge Hacifazlioglu, Rebecca Cheung, and Chunyan Yang
Section I. Challenges And Voices From The Field
Chapter 1. Understanding Risk and Resilience in California's School Principals; Rebecca Cheung, Aukeem Ballard, Meg Stomski, Ozge Hacifazlioglu, 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 Hacifazlioglu
Chapter 3. The Change Maker Collective: Leaders Building Resilience Through a Community of Practice; Soraya Sablo Sutton
Chapter 4. AAPI Leadership Voices and Reflections on Finding Resilience During a Time of Anti-Asian Violence; Mai Xi Lee and Chunyan Yang
Chapter 5. Stories of Resilience from Women of Color Superintendents; Tu Moua Carroz
Section II. Professional Support Structures for Cultivating Resilience and Well Being
Chapter 6. Navigating the First Year: Exploring Professional and Social Support for New Teachers; Ella Rho, Jin Hyung Lim, Chunyan Yang, Meg Stomski, and OEzge Hacifazlioglu
Chapter 7. The Role of Professional Communities for School Leaders: Supporting Critical Reflection to Lead for Equity; Aki Murata, Xueqin Lin, and Quennie Dong
Chapter 8. Fostering Intellectual Wellbeing Through Research Informed Communities of Practice: A Case Study of an American Boarding School in Switzerland; OEzge Hacifazlioglu, Bilge Kalkavan, Paul Magnuson, and Patrick Alexander
Chapter 9. Building Resilience Through Interprofessional Preparation: A Case Study at University of California Berkeley; Rebecca Cheung, Kathryn Perry, OEzge Hacifazlioglu, and Lihi Rosenthal
Chapter 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 Yun
Afterword: Resilience as a Collective Action for Social Justice Leadership; OEzge Hacifazlioglu, Rebecca Cheung, and Chunyan Yang