Principal, let’s talk about emotions: some lessons COVID-19 taught us about emergency situations and leadership

ABSTRACT

We argue here, that the reopening of schools and the return of school members and students to (real) educational settings should be accompanied by greater efforts to manage teachers and students’ emotions effectively and profoundly. School leaders should support their staff in coping with a sense of loneliness and frustration many of them have experienced during this period and thereby encourage them to manage their emotions in classrooms and support their students similarly.

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Izhar Oplatka

Izhar Oplatka is Professor of Educational Admnistration and Policy at Tel Aviv University. His areas of study revolves around emotion in educational organizations, the career of school leaders and teachers, and educational reform.

Megan Crawford

Megan Crawford MC is Professor and Postgraduate tutor at Coventry University where she runs the Leadership and Policy Group, and is Lead on the PhD in Global Education