Leading a School Through Challenge and Crisis

Harvard HGSE

*Only Offered for Online Ed.M. Students* 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 get through the storm. The thrust of this case-based, discussion-based course is to challenge students to problem-solve the widely varied kinds of problems – and yes, crises – that school leaders face. They range from the immediate – the death of a student, the…