This is crisis 101 for school leaders: What they don’t teach you in school.
No school leader wants to imagine their school facing an impending crisis. It’s a turning point that tests your leadership and shapes your school culture. When an emergency arises, is your school equipped to face it with a solid plan in place?
In Premeditated Crisis Leadership: A How-To Guide for School Leaders, you’re given the tools to formulate a plan, empower your team, and respond proactively to a crisis. You’ll better understand how to build secure leadership skills through three types of leadership crisis situations: premeditated, active, and preventative. With an emphasis on premeditated crisis leadership strategies, leaders will walk away with action-oriented steps for how to navigate a variety of common and uncommon crises in schools.
Premeditated Crisis Leadership will show you how to:
-create an action-oriented crisis response plan
-understand the impact of stress and crisis on those you lead
-foster a culture of transparency, trust, and vulnerability
-respond with clarity and decisiveness to active crises
-retain high-quality teachers and staff
-create appropriate daily rhythms to sustain leadership capacity
Premeditated Crisis Leadership is the go-to resource for school leaders who need to develop dynamic teams, cultivate trust among staff, and make difficult decisions in the midst of the unknown. By learning how to build an interdependent school culture based on leadership and trust, you’ll learn how to lead through any crisis, while retaining staff and impacting student achievement.
This is a must-have resource for all school leaders and can be used for professional development, staff training, and establishing a crisis plan. Easy-to-implement strategies will create a school culture that will not only survive, but thrive through any crisis.
Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Physically and emotionally spent. Educators today often find themselves in situations where they are giving from a state of depletion, rather than from the overflow of an abundant cup. Phenomenal educators are leaving the profession in droves. Their phenomenal leaders are all-too-often close behind.
“Without a premeditated expectation of a crisis, how can we be confident that when an emergency arises, we will be equipped to navigate the chaotic waters of an unanticipated storm?”
Jessica Alessio
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About the Author
Jessica Alessio is an author and school leader, passionate about leadership and educator well-being. She holds deep-rooted beliefs about school culture which she shares in her first book, Premeditated Crisis Leadership: A How-To Guide for School Leaders. Jessica has taught Spanish and Psychology and served as Mentor Teacher, Master Teacher, and Principal.
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“Jessica is the epitome of relationship-building in school and crisis leadership. Everyone on her team knows without a shadow of a doubt that she has their back through any situation, especially in the most difficult of times. School leaders looking to learn about crisis leadership should look no further; Jessica has handled crises in schools better than anyone else and her insights are invaluable to positive school culture.”
“One of the easiest ways a good leader can come alongside her team is to be transparent and consistent, especially during a pandemic. For me as an educator, I needed the transparency and consistency. I needed the encouragement. The Monday Memo and Friday Focus were never done without thought, never haphazardly, and never late. That made me feel important. That “we” mattered to her.”
“It was through her transparency that she built strong relationships and trust with her teachers, support staff, and leadership team. The staff wanted to DO better and to BE better, because of the guidance they were provided under her leadership. I was one of those teachers whose entire career shifted, because she inspired ME to want to do better and be better.”
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“Finding ways to be in a constant state of learning can support leaders in making quicker decisions more effectively when a crisis arises.”
-Jessica Alessio
Individual Package
Buy 1 book and receive:
Free digital companion journal download Access to a dynamic and collaborative community for crisis leadership support
Group Package
Buy 5 books and receive: All the individual bonuses 30 minute live or recorded group coaching with Jessica at the beginning, mid point and end of small group study Free private 30-minute coaching session with Jessica individualized for your specific crisis leadership needs
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Each chapter in Premeditated Crisis Leadership ends with reflective questions and specific action steps. Use this companion journal as a place to record your reflections and progress on your journey to becoming a more effective crisis leader.
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