Learning and Adaptation During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Colleges of Education as Hubs for Leadership and Innovation

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic greatly disrupted educational systems around the world. Gi-ven their extensive stakeholder network, Schools and Colleges of Education played an important role in providing leadership across all dimensions of education throug-hout the pandemic. This paper presents results from an interview-based study of Deans of Schools of Education in the United States with a special focus on how they sought to address issues of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the pan-demic. Results show that while there was a great deal of variability in the responses of Deans and Schools of Education many promising practices emerged that are po-tentially scalable and shareable to other institutions.