Introduction : an ongoing pursuit -- Take refuge in how : an abolitionist approach to communally consciousness in teaching, learning, and care -- A tree with roots : probing history to situate an abolitionist approach to crisis / co-authored with Willie Dwayne Francois, III -- Survival is not an academic skill : radically humanizing trauma as a means of power in navigating crisis -- Knowing people and place : strategic planning for increasing communal-consciousness -- The danger of acting : making decisions as acts of resistance at the risk of resentment -- Just say the thing : communicating clearly, directly, and humanely -- Asking a lot of all : reimagining accountability for the sake of the community -- Conclusion : a new way, a new world, a new song.

"Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring, and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and communities in crisis. Though often associated with sudden, large-scale disruptions, crises are ongoing matters-particularly among systemically-oppressed people-that underscore the planning voids, resource inequities, marginalizing policies, and strategic lapses of any teaching and learning community while perpetuating students' social-emotional, psychological, and pedagogical traumas. This expansive book guides school leaders to provide pre-emptive, premeditated, and progressive leadership while countering the impacts of racism that endure in our schools. Working from an abolitionist lineage, author Robert S. Harvey's radically humane vision explores lessons from our collective national past, provides strategic planning with creativities and contingencies, and fosters liberatory decision-making through accountability, communication, and more"--