This page hosts materials to help guide your school crisis leadership through recovery, as mourning and remembrance are a key pillar of school crisis recovery.
Access materials across several of our events that offer resources and learning on leading memorials and commemorations.
SCRR Resources and Programming
Resources to Support Memorialization and Commemoration in Schools
Wading through Grief and Time Community of Practice (Fall 2021)
M&C: Navigating, Creating and Holding Space for Loss in Our Schools (May 2021)
SCRR Resources and Programming
- New! Ritualizing Remembrance in our School Cultures: Dia de los Muertos
- Learning Capture from Memorialization and Commemoration Part 1: Discourse on May 13, 2021
- School Mental Health Crisis Leadership Lessons: Voices of Experience from Leaders in the Pacific Southwest Region | Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network Bereavement and ambiguous loss (page 10)Remembrance and Mourning (page 34) Create Structural Witnessing (page 41) Commemoration and Memorialization (page 52)
Resources to Support Memorialization and Commemoration in Schools
- Navigating the anniversary of collective trauma (Venet, 2021)
- Addressing Grief: Tips for Teachers and Administrators (NASP, n.d.)
- Experiencing the Loss of a Student or Teacher: Responding to Crisis (2020)
- Resilient Together: Coping with Loss at School (Kognito)
- Commemoration and Memorialization (www.Grievingstudents.org)
- Virtual Memorials During the COVID-19 Pandemic (www.schoolcrisiscenter.org)
- Memorials After a Suicide: Guidelines for Schools and Families (Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide)
- Lesson: Analyzing and Creating Memorials | Facing History
- For Educators Who Died on the Job, Small Town Offers Big Commemoration
- 5 years after Sandy Hook shooting, plans for a permanent memorial take shape
- View of Teaching in Grief: Critical Reflections, Redefining Justice, and a Reorientation to Teaching
- An Empty Seat in Class: Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student
- Humanizing Grief in Higher Education: Narratives of Allyship and Hope
- Pedagogies of Wholeness: Cultivating Critical Healing Literacies with Students of Color in an Embodied English Classroom
- Responding to COVID-19 | Grief, Loss, and Bereavement | Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) NetworkTraumatic Grief | The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
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Wading through Grief and Time Community of Practice (Fall 2021)
Session 1: Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Session 2: Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Session 3: Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Session 4: Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Session 5: Tuesday, November 30, 2021
M&C: Navigating, Creating and Holding Space for Loss in Our Schools (May 2021)
Memorialization and Commemoration: Navigating, Creating, and Holding Space in Our Schools After Loss (May 2021), a two-part learning experience, panelists and participants surfaced the challenges, complexities, and experiences of commemorating and memorializing crisis, trauma, death, as well as joy, recovery, and growth in and with our school communities.
View recordings and presenter info for the May 2021 event
