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The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to re-examine systems within education and the way that various players within each system interact. Findings from our interview study illuminate the ways that the pandemic shaped the experiences that teachers, school and district administrators, and caregivers had with enacting agency. While many encountered barriers to enacting agency that ranged from experiences of decreased power to direct encounters with racism, others found opportunity within the pandemic to enact agency and operate within the system of education in new ways. The opportunities and barriers to agency presented here illuminate important opportunities for educational change moving forward, both on an individual and systems level.
Megin Charner-Laird, Salem State University
Christina L. Dobbs, Boston University
Christine Montecillo Leider, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Jacy Ippolito, Salem State University
Stacy Agee Szczesiul, University of Massachusetts - Lowell