Giving Compass' Take:

• The 74 discusses the effects of the Kilauea volcano eruption on Hawaii's schools through the eyes of one charter school head named Susie Osborne, who has projected calm to students during the crisis.

• What can other school leaders learn from Osborne's example? And how can nonprofits help bring relief to devastated communities on Hawaii's Big Island?

• Here's how natural disasters have exacerbated the student homelessness crisis in the US.

The headlines have been dramatic, declaring that homes on Hawaii’s Big Island are engulfed by lava and calling the damage heartbreaking and surreal. Hundreds have been displaced by recent explosions from the Kilauea volcano, which have unleashed flowing lava, toxic gas, and ash.

But Susie Osborne, head of school at Kua O Ka Lā New Century Public Charter School in Pahoa, Hawaii, is careful not to be alarmist when she talks about what’s happening. Since the lava started flowing on Hawaii’s Big Island — bursting through cracks on the street where she lives — she’s had to evacuate her home in a hurry, relocate her school, and support 10 staff members and more than 60 students who are also displaced.

“We just wanted to make [it] through the remainder of the year in just a one-time stable shot and just get that taken care of immediately,” she said of the decision to move classes to facilities in Hilo, about a 40-minute drive from the school’s permanent location. Students in kindergarten through fourth grade are now having class at a local church there, and fifth- through 12th-grade students have been relocated to a nearby Boys and Girls Club.

Read the full article about one school leader's steady hand during volcano eruption in Hawaii by Laura Fay at The 74.