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Leading Through Crisis: Lessons From School Principals' Leadership During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mon, April 12, 4:30 to 6:00pm EDT (4:30 to 6:00pm EDT), Division A, Division A - Section 1 Paper and Symposium Sessions 2Session Type: Symposium
Abstract
In this symposium, researchers will present five papers from a national qualitative study of principal leadership in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study draws on 120 interviews of public school principals from a range of school types and regional contexts across the US. The papers focus on: (1) principals as crisis managers, (2) principals’ role in supporting a culture of psychological safety, (3) the organizational conditions that support principal leadership and organizational learning, (4) the dynamics of shared leadership structures during crisis, and (5) principals’ sensemaking of external policy guidance. The findings have significant policy and practice implications for how to foster the conditions necessary to enable effective principal leadership even beyond periods of crisis.
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Espoused Versus Enacted: Principals' Most Pressing Initial Issues in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Bryan A. VanGronigen, University of Delaware; Maya Kaul, University of Pennsylvania; Nicole S. Simon, City University of New York
Keep Safe, Keep Learning: Principals' Role in Creating Psychological Safety and Organizational Learning During COVID-19 - Jennie Weiner, University of Connecticut; Joshua Childs, The University of Texas at Austin; Chantal Francois, Towson University; Julianna E. Lopez Kershen, Independent Scholar; Corrie Stone-Johnson, University at Buffalo - SUNY
How Schools Withstand Crisis: Organizational Conditions to Support Principal Leadership for Organizational Learning - Maya Kaul, University of Pennsylvania; Meghan Comstock, University of Pennsylvania; Nicole S. Simon, City University of New York
Shared Leadership During a Crisis: How Schools Use Collaborative Decision Making to Adapt to Changing Conditions - Erin Anderson, University of Denver; Jennie Weiner, University of Connecticut
Policy and Sense-Making in a Time of Crisis - Lea A. Hubbard, University of San Diego; Hollie Mackey, North Dakota State University; Jonathan A. Supovitz, University of Pennsylvania