Barbour, M. K. (2022). 5 minutes on K-12 online learning with… A re-boot for educational leaders. In E. Baumgartner, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, R. E. Ferdig, R. Hartshorne, & C. Mouza (Eds.). A Retrospective of Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 65-70). (original) (raw)

Barbour, M. K. (2022). 5 minutes on K-12 online learning with… A re-boot for educational leaders. In E. Baumgartner, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, R. E. Ferdig, R. Hartshorne, & C. Mouza (Eds.). A Retrospective of Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic (pp. 65-70). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/221522/ In March and April 2020, a series of interviews with veteran classroom and online teachers, independent evaluators, online school leaders, change agents, government officials, university faculty, and/or researchers were posted to the Virtual School Meanderings blog. Entitled “5 Minutes On K-12 Online Learning With…” the series was designed to provide advice to teachers on what to do to provide some form of continuity of learning or to parents on how to structure their child’s learning at home during the emergency remote learning that occurred in the Spring of 2020. Following this first series, in an effort to help school leaders plan for a disrupted school year that was inevitable, interviews were conducted with additional veteran school leaders, university researchers, and independent evaluators. The goal of this second series of “5 Minutes On K-12 Online Learning With…” was to ask them for guidance on (1) how to finish out the current school year and what impact that may have on how they open the coming school year, and (2) what to do to ensure that when the system has to shut down again due to local flare ups or a second wave, the toggle from in person learning to remote learning would be done in a more seamless way. Unfortunately, as most school and district leaders failed to adequately prepare for what has been two disrupted school years, this second series of “5 Minutes On K-12 Online Learning With…” likely had little impact on school leaders.