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“Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.”
- Parker J. Palmer
SCRR Community-
Here we are, entering another school year together. We do so as a vibrant community of now over 6,000 educators, school site leaders, clinicians, youth advocates, school mental health champions, and crisis professionals. We do so as a connected community, committed to holding ourselves and each other in reimagining what it can feel like, sound like, and be like through and beyond the crises we experience.
It’s our 2024-2025 Back to School edition newsletter. Here you’ll find…
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- The formal announcement of our 2024-2025 School Crisis Recovery & Renewal Leadership Fellows!
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- Published 2024 Summer Institute for Educator Healing recordings and materials that you can use on your own or as professional development supports for your teams
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- New products we’ve been working on this summer (Three new blogs! One new Suicide Postvention Reflection Guide!)
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- Highlighted key fall programming you, your teams, and networks can access at no-cost
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- Our coaching and consulting menu of services for the coming school year
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- Showcased field-based events, new research, and resources we are loving
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We know- it’s a lot! And, your work is a lot. Together as a community, we can keep opening our hearts as school crisis learners and leaders.
With deep respect,
Leora & the SCRR Team
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MEET OUR 2024-2025
SCRR Leadership Fellows!
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We are thrilled to formally share our 2024-2025 SCRR Leadership Fellows! Please join us in celebrating these 22 remarkable humans who represent diverse roles, identities, experiences, perspectives, geographic contexts, crisis work and more. | |
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Congratulations Andrea Lopez, LPC (she/her), Claudia Rojas, M.Ed. (she/her/ella, Erika Rubinstein Irby, MSW PPS (she/her), Erin Hughes, ACSW PPSC (she/her), Jadie Boens, Ph.D. (she/her), Janelle Naomi Rouse, M.Ed (she/her), Jennifer L. Price, MSW, LCSW (she/her), Jessica Aguilar, B.A. (she/her/ella), Jonathan Hankins, QMHA II (he/they), Kela Lynn, LCSW (she/her), Kris Bifulco, MPH (she/they), Lesley G. Delapaz, B.S. (she/her/ella), Lorene Diaz, B.A. (she/her), Melissa Gillespie, M.Ed, PPS (she/her), Michelle Holmes M.S. Ed (she/her), Nole Kennedy, M. Ed. (he/him), Rituparna (Ritu) Roy, M.S.S.W (she/her), Selena Quiroz, B.A. (she/her), Sheri Hanni, MSW, PPS (she/her), Shericka Smith, DSW, LCSW (she/her), Tiarra L. Fentress, B.A. (she/her), and Veneisha Johnson, Ed.D, LMFT (she/her)!
Learn about them, the fellowship and our 2024-2025 faculty here: SCRR Leadership Fellowship.
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The recordings and materials from the “2024 SCRR Summer Institute for Educator Healing”
are here!
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“The 2024 Summer Institute for Educator Healing - Embracing Renewal: Praxis and Practice towards Healing” recordings are available now! Whether you were able to join us for all some or none, we are excited to share you can now view all sessions on our “Mending our Wounds” – Educator and School Leader Recovery & Renewal” page
- To access them you can scroll down to "Videos of SCRR Teachings and Materials on Educator Healing," or select the link under Quick Links to Key Sections on this Page.
- Recorded sessions are organized under recovery & renewal practice elements; if you are seeking a specific session or speaker, you can review the table of contents to locate it.
- We’re excited for you to use clips in your meetings, trainings, and professional development spaces, or simply for yourself (please credit SCRR if you are showing them for public use!).
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Resources & chat gems from each 2024 Summer Institute Session: Our team has woven our faculty and peer-resourced resources, gems, and juicy quotes from each session, compiled and organized for you! SCRR 2024 Summer Institute Learning Capture (Resources & Quotes).
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SCRR RESOURCES
To Support Your Leadership This Fall
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NEW RESOURCES FROM US FOR YOU
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Educator wellness through critical inquiry. Trauma-informed communication. Moral injury. Suicide postvention leadership reflection. Yes, yes, yes and yes. To support you this fall, we are proud to offer four new resources:
NEW GUIDE! Leading with Courage, Care, & Connection: A Reflection Guide for School Leaders Navigating Recovery & Renewal After Student Deaths by Suicide. Throughout 2021-2024, SCRR gathered educators, crisis responders, suicide prevention and postvention leaders, youth advocates, and other community leaders to explore how to hold space to honor students’ lives years after they die by suicide, how practices of commemoration and memorialization collaborate or collide with school postvention, and to name some of the challenges that arrive with creating space and place to honor students’ deaths by suicide equally and equitably.
This guide curates lived experiences and actions taken by people in your shoes - leaders through postvention, offering reflective questions to support anyone in the school community supporting young people after a death by suicide.
NEW BLOG! In “CrEW for Educators: “Holding the Space for Big Feeling” in these Tumultuous Times” Stephanie Cariaga and Melissa Merin share the vision, story, and learnings of CrEW, “Critical Embodied Wellness (CrEW) for Educators” and explore the power of centering educator wellness in community.
NEW BLOG! In "Building Beloved Communities – Reflections on Trauma-Informed Communication and A Moment of Pause", SCRR Field Coach Antoine Moore reflects on the power of trauma informed communication and offers simple but impactful strategies that we explore in one of our signature programs, A Moment of Pause.
NEW BLOG! You all loved Jen Leland’s session at our 2024 Summer Institute, “Trauma Informed Systems for Crisis Recovery & Renewal” - especially the part when Jen unpacked burnout and moral injury as systemic barriers to our collective renewal. We asked Jen to write more about this for you, and she did! In “Is it burnout or is it a moral injury?”, Jen explores the phenomenons of burnout, moral injury and collective care for educators and how we might shift our school systems to be more healing-centered through deeper explorations of recovery and renewal.
SCRR RESOURCES FOR FALL LEADERSHIP
Día de los muertos is coming up (November 1 & 2). Now is the time to begin preparation, conversations and reflection to drive action: RITUALIZING REMEMBRANCE in our SCHOOL CULTURES: Día de los muertos (SCRR, 2021)
Looking to deepen your school crisis knowledge, skills, and approaches? Our SCRR Level Setting: Foundational Modules is a four-part asynchronous learning opportunity, based on a no-cost, virtual series that was offered for school leaders, educators, school site and district administration, community-based organizations, school mental health providers, student advocates, and anyone interested. Modules include signature SCRR training by offering webinars on theory, frameworks, trauma-informed and healing-centered crisis models and come with session recordings, (2) the slide deck, and (3) links to resources shared during the session.
Ouched lately? Repair is a cornerstone school crisis recovery and renewal leadership skill, and back to school season offers us a lot of opportunities to flex that skill. Check out our Cultivating Conflict Culture After a Crisis (SCRR, 2022) to support your oopses.
Partnering with Students to Take Action: Here we are again, beginning the school year in the aftermath of school shootings. Our 2022 “Partnering with Students To Take Action: School Shooting Recovery after Buffalo and Uvalde” offers leadership tips, reflective questions, and resources to support the conversations you are having.
Check out all of our SCRR Resources (toolkits, guides, learning captures) at SCRR (Our) Resources and all of our SCRR Blogs at SCRR Voices from the Field (Blog).
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Our 2024-2024 Coaching and Consultation Menu of Services | | |
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As we are in our 5th year, we have designed a menu of SCRR Technical Assistance Offerings available to network members between October 2024 and April 2025. Offerings uplift themes we have seen in TA requests over the years, as well as our signature offerings customized for your community.
Check out our offerings at the link above, and request support by completing the TA request form here.
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Opportunities & Events from Us and the Field | | |
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SCRR No Cost, Virtual Programming
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See you in person! Conferences
Share your crisis recovery & renewal work in the field! Calls for Conference Proposals
Webinars, Distance Learning & Online Courses
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Webinar: On 9/25/24, join NTTAC for A Stronger WE: Building Stronger Support, Alignment, and Impact for Systems of Care. This webinar focuses on the skills, tools, and tips to help practitioners and service providers grow into better managers and stronger leaders.
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Online course: In our programming, you’ll often hear Leora and Oriana quote Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s radical, imploring question, “What if the way we respond to the crisis is the crisis?” Bayo is offering a five week virtual course, Making Sanctuary: A Course for Endings and Stranger Beginnings, from September 28 and October 27, 2024. Read more in the link.
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What We're Loving As Learners | |
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Podcasts
Archived Sessions + Extended Learning Resources
- How might examining faith-based bullying - both against students and staff - necessitate conversations that can translate to policies that steward belonging for all? How might we center anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish experiences in our commitment to prevent, intervene and unpack bullying in our school communities?
Back in July 2024, Leora and colleagues via the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center’s School Mental Health Initiative hosted a special two-part conversation series, “Healing School Communities in the Context of Faith-Based Bullying,” exploring bullying & belonging with attention to faith-based experiences of stigma, contention, conflict and policies and programs that foster religious literacy, thereby enhancing school culture and climate. The conversations (that included wonderful NCTSN leaders!) were intended for students, families, educators and school mental health professionals who are navigating the ongoing impact of faith-based bullying on student and staff mental health.
Check out the recordings of both conversations as well as the priming resources and please note that the MHTTC Network closes 9/29; if you’d like to access this conversation and resources, we encourage you to do so before then + download for your extended use.
Books from SCRR Adjunct Faculty
And lastly, in honor of all lives impacted and lost due to gun violence caused school death
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Learn: The Center for Gun Violence Research and Education, powered by Health Alliance For Violence Intervention is necessary and timely.
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Witness: In Teaching After Tragedy, Nelba Márquez-Greene recently sat down with Abbey Clements for 45 minutes to discuss teaching after tragedy. Clements and Márquez-Greene share an inextricable link. Clements was a teacher at Sandy Hook School on December 14, 2012, where Márquez-Greene lost her daughter, Ana Grace.
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Get involved: Teachers Unify is a grassroots movement of educators across America whose mission is to empower its constituents and supporters to demand that communities are safe from gun violence.
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Wishing all of us a year of bloom and blossom. Of recovery and renewal. For you, for your students, for all of us. | | | | |
