TY - JOUR
T1 - Leveraging the Crisis for Equity and Access in the Long Term
T2 - A Brief Research Report
AU - Virella, Patricia Marisol
AU - Cobb, Casey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Virella and Cobb.
PY - 2021/4/12
Y1 - 2021/4/12
N2 - For years, crises have occurred in and out of schools. School leaders have had to make meaning of these crises and lead during them. Common rhetoric in today’s media describes the educational inequities children have faced as a result of the current crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to understand how school leaders respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke directly to principals, listening for ways in which they confronted issues of inequity. Our research was guided by the question: How do principals advance equity for students and families while leading during the COVID-19 crisis? This study focuses on the opportunity’s principals have created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address issues of equity in their schools. We present three main findings resulting from our data analysis. Overall, our findings indicate principals acted upon two primary opportunities for achieving equity in their school community. The findings from our study illustrate two specific opportunities principals were presented with as a result of the crisis to engage in equity responses.
AB - For years, crises have occurred in and out of schools. School leaders have had to make meaning of these crises and lead during them. Common rhetoric in today’s media describes the educational inequities children have faced as a result of the current crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to understand how school leaders respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke directly to principals, listening for ways in which they confronted issues of inequity. Our research was guided by the question: How do principals advance equity for students and families while leading during the COVID-19 crisis? This study focuses on the opportunity’s principals have created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address issues of equity in their schools. We present three main findings resulting from our data analysis. Overall, our findings indicate principals acted upon two primary opportunities for achieving equity in their school community. The findings from our study illustrate two specific opportunities principals were presented with as a result of the crisis to engage in equity responses.
KW - COVID-19
KW - crisis leadership
KW - educational leadership
KW - equity-oriented leadership
KW - principals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104952663&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/feduc.2021.618051
DO - 10.3389/feduc.2021.618051
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104952663
SN - 2504-284X
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Education
JF - Frontiers in Education
M1 - 618051
ER -