2024 – 2025 School Crisis Recovery and Renewal Leadership Fellowship
We’re not supposed to spend our time living to heal, we’re supposed to heal to live
Nkem Ndefo
The School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project’s Leadership Fellowship is an 8- month long program that provides intensive training, coaching, and peer consultation to school crisis leaders nationwide committed to recovery & renewal. The fellowship is an invitation to not only receive learning but also co-construct recovery and renewal approaches to school trauma and grief, expand the school crisis continuum of care and contribute to the broader field.
Our Fellowship is a journey of self and critical inquiry, mindful and reflective practice, trauma informed professional development, and relational focused experience. Our monthly sessions have two parts:
- Part 1: Learning includes teach-ins from school crisis thought leaders, text study, dialogue and discourse, and more.
- Part 2: Leading includes the SCRR fellowship capstone project planning, design, and implementation.
The fellowship’s essential questions that guide the journey are:
What needs healing and transformation inside me in order to sustain transformation and healing in my classrooms, schools, organizations?
What needs healing and transformation inside us to stabilize and reimagine our school or community’s way of being?
SCRR Fellows will be held with care, courage, and collective dedication to reimagining the knowledge, tools, skills and approaches necessary to transform the ways in which we hold and heal what happens after a crisis.
The Fellowship
The SCRR Leadership Fellowship is a structured cohort of 15-20 nationwide leaders to help co-construct national standards, train the trainers, and, eventually, our guide to school crisis recovery and renewal.
What do Fellows get?
- Tools and strategies to lead school connected teams and communities through crisis recovery & renewal
- Personal and professional reflection and development
- Identifying their crisis leadership vision, purpose, and ways of being so that we can create content, peer training experiences and other materials to serve the fellows’ communities and national needs.
- A powerful community of leaders who will continue to be a support system
- Monthly learning for 8 months (subject matter experts, text studies) + assigned SCRR mentor coach for a capstone project.
- A stipend of $2000 for your capstone project
- 12 Continuing Education Hours
The SCRR Capstone Project
- The SCRR capstone project demonstrates the SCRR Fellow’s vision of recovery and renewal.
- This year, the capstone projects will be created through Fellow group collaboration: a virtual workshop or community of practice for the SCRR network, a train the trainer, a product (e.g., toolkit, guide), or a multimedia project.
- Focus areas for the capstone project:
- Adoption, implementation, or installation of evidence-based, culturally and trauma-informed recovery and renewal interventions for students, families, and school staff who experienced a school crisis event in the past.
- System-level infrastructure and policies to impact school crisis recovery & renewal (e.g., school suicide postvention, memorialization or commemoration)
- Grief recovery & renewal
- School crisis leadership (e.g., healing-centered workplaces, storytelling, repair work)
Our SCRR fellowship mentors will help each fellow identify the challenge and solution their project addresses. (Curious about what some of the capstones looked like this past year? Check out the recordings of the Spring 2024 SCRR Fellowship Capstone Symposium to hear the first inaugural cohort share their work here.
Eligibility
- Eligibility requires previous participation in at least one SCRR program previous to the Fellowship.
- Active participation is necessary to ensure you receive the full value of the program. With that, we require…
- Full participation at the 2024-2025 Orientation
- Attendance of at least one day of the 2024 Summer Institute for Educator Healing (see dates below)
- Live attendance at a minimum of 12 out of the 15 main sessions (see dates below)
- Active engagement with your group for your Capstone
- Participation as a presenter at the 2025 Spring Network of Practice
- You do not need to work at a school but you do need to work with schools, people who work in schools, systems, and connected community based organizations.
Application Timeline
- June 14, 2024 – Optional Information Session – 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. CT / 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET.
- Want to learn more about the fellowship, ask questions, or get help with the application? Join us and register here. Can’t make it? Register and we’ll send you the recording. Still have questions? Email us at SCRR@cars-rp.org.
- June 28, 2024 – Application due by 5:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. CT / 8:00 p.m. ET
- July 5, 2024 – Notification of application status
2024-2025 Fellowship Session Dates
- Orientation (Mandatory)
- August 2nd, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT / 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET
- SCRR Summer Institute for Educator Healing – Fellows are requested to attend at least one of the days of the virtual Institute.
- August 6, 7, 8th, 2024 – 9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. CT / 12:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET
- PART 1: LEARNING – 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT / 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET via Zoom
- September 5th & 19th, 2024
- October 3rd & 17th, 2024
- November 7th & 21st, 2024
- December 5th & 19th, 2024
- PART 2: LEADING – 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT / 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET via Zoom
- January 16th, 2025 (Capstone project pitches are due)
- February 6th & 20th, 2025
- March 6th & 20th, 2025
- April 3rd & 17th, 2025
- SCRR Spring Network of Practice- The public presentation of Capstone Projects (Mandatory)
- April 24th, 2025 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT / 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET
- Closing & Celebration— Mandatory
- May 15th, 2025- 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT / 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CT / 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
NEW THIS YEAR: The SCRR Friday Fellows Forums
This year, SCRR will offer four forums open to past and current SCRR Leadership Fellows (exclusively!) that invite Fellows to bring a current crisis leadership (personal-professional // internal- external) dilemma to one another and receive peer solutioning (adapted from the Peeling the Onion Defining a Dilemma Protocol from the School Reform Initiative).
These Friday Fellow Forums are optional and led by SCRR Project Director Leora Wolf-Prusan.
Dates – 10:00 a.m. -11:15 a.m. PT/ 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. CT / 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ET
- September 13, 2024
- November 15, 2024
- January 24, 2025
- March 28, 2025
Faculty & Fellow Mentors
- The Fellowship is led by Leora Wolf-Prusan, SCRR Project Director and Niki Magtoto, SCRR Senior Program Manager.
- Guest faculty and mentors will be announced shortly!
- The 2024-2025 Cohort will also enjoy the presence and support of three alumni 2023-2024 Fellows as peer – mentors.
Faculty
Lead Faculty: Leora Wolf-Prusan Ed.D, SCRR Project Director (she/her)
Leora Wolf-Prusan serves as the Project Director for the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project and as the School Mental Health field director for the Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), in addition to many other facilitation projects. Leora is dedicated to work focused on educator mental health, wellness, and trauma-informed approaches to education and operates through a framework in which public health, social work, and education intersect. Her research examined the impact of student death on teachers, what factors contribute to teachers building resiliency, and what supports teachers need from the school system in the event of a student homicide or other traumas. She received a BA in international relations and a BA in Spanish with a minor in Social & Ethnic Relations from the University of California, Davis; a teaching credential from Mills College; and an EdD in educational leadership from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Her work in school crisis recovery and renewal is motivated by and dedicated to educators and youth who envision schools as a platform for community and connection.
Niki Magtoto, SCRR Senior Project Manager (she/her)
Niki Magtoto is the Senior Project Manager for the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal Project. She has a background in supporting public school districts through equity-centered and antiracist facilitation. She has worked in policy implementation as well as design and improvement projects focused on engaging all levels of stakeholders to transform systems. She is dedicated to building new realities for young people. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Arts in Education: Equity & Social Justice from San Francisco State University.
Her work in school crisis recovery and renewal is motivated by and dedicated to Andréa, Matthew & Kendrick.
Guest Faculty
To be announced soon!
Inaugural 2023-2024 Fellowship
For information about the 2023-2024 SCRR Leadership Fellows’ Capstone projects, visit our Spring 2024 Network of Practice – A Spring Festival of Learning – The 2023-2024 SCRR Leadership Fellows’ Capstone Project Symposium event page.