Mobilizing, Advocating, and Organizing for Care in the School District Central Office

This paper presents a case study of a caring school district located in a farmworker community composed largely of Latinx families. I examine how central office leaders create or maintain care supports under crisis conditions. Findings suggest that district-level care was multidimensional and distributed, involving mobilization of community leadership, improvisational structures, and novel leadership routines. District care was enacted through a collective vision of care, rooted in a love of pla