Find out about the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal Project out in the field!

Articles

• “Grappling with Life After Loss as Educator Leaders: An Invitation to Transformational Educator Grief Healing Work” – Leora Wolf-Pursan, Oriana Ides and Meagan O’Malley, The Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, Vol. 2 No. 3. Our team explores SCRR’s Life After Educator Loss body of work, and practices that aim to rehumanize the educator grief healing process by hosting educators in a co-created supportive and regenerative space.

• “Grief Work: Being with and Moving Through a Resistance to Change in Teacher Education” – Stephanie Cariaga, Ph.D. Associate Professor, California State University Dominguez Hills. In her reflections on grief work as a necessary intervention within the field of teacher education, Dr. Cariaga and references learning and experiences with SCRR.

• “Leora Wolf-Prusan, EdD, on School Mental Health Crisis Leadership During Disasters“ – #CrisisTalk interviews Leora Wolf-Prusan our Project Director shared about school mental health crisis leadership and lessons learned through SCRR and the Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network.

Podcasts & Conversation Series

• Education Upended- School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Part 2 with PACEs Connection– From a 2022 two-part conversation series with PACEs Connection, where Leora Wolf-Prusan shares about our project as well as some of the key components of school crisis recovery and renewal.

• Education Upended- School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Part 2 with PACEs Connection – Part 2 of the conversations series with PACEs Connection with SCRR Field Coaches Oriana Ides and Brianna Young as well as SCRR Adjunct Faculty Yesmina Luchsinger, who share about supporting grief in schools.

• Episode 88 of the Trauma-Informed Educators Network Podcast – Leora Wolf-Prusan joins the Trauma Informed Educators Network and in their conversation they explore recovery and renewal through the lived experiences of educators and school staff, as well as the power of developing school crisis leadership skills.

• “Honoring A Great Love – Grief Out Loud“ – 2023-2024 SCRR Leadership Fellow, Canada Taylor Parker, shares about her own experience of grief and loss and how it changed the course of her career from behavioral health to suicide prevention and grief justice on the “Grief Out Loud” podcast produced by the Dougy Center.

• “Normal Was Never Good Enough – Healing Teachers in Service of Equitable Student Learning“ – Oriana joins the Stanford University Graduate School of Education’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching in part two of a three part conversation series seeking to explore how we might have restorative school reopening after the COVID-19.