The study sought to qualitatively capture and examine the leadership experiences of six superintendents who led their school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the Boin et al., (2017) Five Critical Tasks of Strategic Crisis Leadership framework centered on sensemaking, decision-making and coordinating, meaning making, accounting, and learning. This phenomenological case study design explored the lived experiences (Clandinin & Connally, 1996) of these Texas superintendents and may contributes to the emerging scholarly literature on leading in times of crisis.