Cheri Lovre

Regaining Balance: Leading Your School Through Loss Cheri Lovre 1st edition

Every school is vulnerable to local tragedies that don t make the national news, but still devastate a school community: the death of a beloved teacher from cancer, a child abducted over the weekend, or a drunken-driving accident that claims the lives of several students. Every school leader wants to be prepared, and more schools and districts are taking care to create essential crisis and emergency response procedures beyond the traditional fire drill. Regaining Balance offers administrators, teachers, and school staff practical, step-by-step suggestions for each stage of the response, including visiting grieving parents, dealing with student suicide, and helping children cope with death and grief. It includes a CD, as well as a tabbed at-a-glance section for quick access to invaluable reproducibles, checklists, and handouts.