Keeping the Bus Moving While Maintaining Social Distance in a COVID-19 World.

In a post-graduate class, 33 American elementary and secondary teachers from five different school districts in southwest Texas provided their personal reflections on how their administrators responded to the coronavirus pandemic from March to May, 2020. Ten of the teachers, supervised by their professor, analysed these responses. The paper describes the administrative actions in each category that teachers thought were effective, as well as those that were not, across three broad categories: communication, accountability, and interpersonal relationships. Four recommendations for improving administrators' effectiveness in unexpected crises are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]