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Title: Leading Schools through COVID-19: A Constraint or an Opportunity for Change?
Language: English
Authors: Nir, Adam E.
Source: Educational Planning. Sum 2021 28(3):51-65.
Availability: International Society for Educational Planning. 2903 Ashlawn Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060. Tel: 770-833-1948; Web site: http://isep.info/educational-planning-journal
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping, Leadership Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Change, Well Being, Stress Management, Principals, Planning, Change Strategies, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: Israel
ISSN: 1537-873X
Abstract: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic undermined basic routines and typical conduct of schools, introducing uncertainty and instability to an extent that schools had never encountered in the last decades. The current study focuses on leaders' coping strategies while struggling to maintain school stability and on the extent to which these extreme conditions of uncertainty and turbulence may potentially promote innovation and change, as many stakeholders argue. Interviews conducted with eleven school leaders reveal that they have invested efforts to maintain school stability and decrease teachers' and students' stress. They changed school priorities, placing more emphasis on the wellbeing of teachers and students than on academic achievements. They shifted control patterns from centralized to collaborative ones with extended autonomy to teachers. They increased the support they provided teachers and created open communication channels. Although many school leaders viewed the pandemic as an opportunity for change, all of them agreed that schools would not dramatically change. All principals shared the notion that it is more likely that schools would return to their traditional routines and modes of operation with only minor changes after the pandemic is over. Some implications of extreme turbulence on innovation-oriented planning are discussed.
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