1 The Need for Trauma-informed School Leadership For schools in Australia and many others around the world, we currently face the impacts of multiple crises, from devastating bushfires and climate change induced natural disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic, the events renewing urgency in the Black Lives Matter movement, and a deepened awareness of systemic racism. [...] Nevertheless, it is helpful to draw on the literature to define leadership, both as a key term as the focus of this study, and to frame the diverging perspectives on leadership for the rest of this section. [...] The systems-aware leadership literature views support and safety in terms of building the agency of staff to shift the context toward safe and supportive systems. [...] 1 The contribution of this paper is both a current review of the extant literatures in trauma-informed and systems-aware school leadership and the proposal of a new leadership framework to aid school leaders toward enacting approaches to whole school change. [...] As the field deepens its inquiry around the pathways to integration of trauma- informed leadership and systems-aware leadership practices, questions for the future stand out: (1) How do we build a compelling and useful evidence base to apply the TIIL framework and tell the story of the transition toward trauma-informed and systems-aware practice for school leadership? (2) How does this work grow f.
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