Incivility and Workplace Toxicity in P-12 Schools: The Causes, Costs, and Solutions for Educational Leaders [Hardcover]

1. Introduction??Part 1: Considering the Role of Leaders and Preparation Programs in Fostering Civility??2.?Teachers Perspectives on the Sources and Solutions to Incivility in Schools? 3.?The Neuroscience of Leaders Incivility? 4.?Using Restorative Justice to Address Student-Perpetrated Incivility in Schools? 5.?Reclaiming Human Flourishing in Teacher and Leadership Education: Addressing Cultures of Incivility in Higher Education??Part 2:?Vulnerability, Marginalization, and Incivility??6.?Incivility, Microaggressions, and Psychological Safety in Schools? 7.?Marginalized Populations as Targets of Incivility: The Case of Queer and Trans Educators? 8.?Mean Girls in Educational Leadership: Overcoming Incivility Among Women??Part 3:?Incivility in Context??9.?The Common Denominator: Black Women Educators Experiences with Selective Incivility? 10.?District Leadership and the Politics of Incivility: Classroom Mobbing and the Crisis of Carework? 11.?Drowning in a Cesspool of Social Media Incivility: Damages to Leaders Psychological Functioning and Well-being

This volume examines the causes and consequences of workplace incivility in P-12 education and provides practical strategies for leaders to prevent toxicity in their schools. This text?is for faculty and scholars of educational leadership as well for aspiring leaders who are interested in cultivating?affirming and healing educational spaces.

Incivility in society has intensified in recent years, sometimes reminding me of the old Bloba relentless and destructive force, threatening to enfold us in its toxicity and change us in unwelcome ways. But as this book points out, we are not doomed to be victims of incivility, and we can build awareness so that we are not perpetrators or reinforcers. We can be a part of the solution. The chapters in this book, well-rooted in evidence, theory, and practical strategies, provide lSÙ