Leading a School Through Challenge and Crisis

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*Lottery-based Enrollment* Harvard’s famous anthem Fair Harvard sees “calm rising thro’ change and thro’ storm.” But school leaders are the ones who have to take the tiller and figure out the way to steer through the storm. Recent school years provide staggering cases, from the pandemic to issues of racial justice and culture wars. How could leaders respond to these crises in real time? How does one also find the inner calm to be able to lead effectively? The thrust…