Resilience, Reorientation, and Reinvention: School Leadership During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across globe, many schools struggled to react both quickly and adequately. Schools were one of most important societal institutions be affected by pandemic. However, school leaders have little no training in crisis leadership, nor they dealt with a this scale scope for long. This article presents our findings from interviews 43 organizations around globe about their responses during early months Primary themes included an emphasis on vision values; communication family community engagement; staff care, instructional organizational capacity-building; equity-oriented leadership practices; recognition potential future opportunities. These resonate larger research literature implications leaders’ mindsets, behaviors, support structures incidents.