Assistant Principals Reconsider "Normal" Following COVID-19

ABSTRACT

When COVID-19 changed schooling in Illinois from face-to-face teaching and learning to remote teaching and learning, the transformation was sudden and swift. While there may have been premonitions and feelings of urgency about the effects of the novel coronavirus, there was little time to plan for the change that would take place and little information to understand how this change would be implemented and monitored over the next several months. There was no gaining buy-in from faculty, parents, and students for the abrupt change. There was no professional development to prepare for the dramatic changes in delivery of instruction. There was no preparation to overcome the resistance that frequently accompanies organizational change. How this change was handled is of significance for the way schools move forward. What did they manage well? What did they learn from the changes? And how does dramatic change affect how schools move forward?