This article reports on how four faculty self-study learning group members reexperienced the newness of teaching when forced to move online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a collaborative self-study of experienced teacher educators, we explored our abrupt transitions in teaching over one year through journal entries and individual interviews…

This paper presents a collective self-study that examines what student teachers and a teacher educator learned from our collective work during the initial Covid-19 shutdown. Using a theory of collaborative inquiry grounded in Brené Brown's work on resiliency and vulnerability, we examined our work during this time of great struggle. We learned how…

This study captures the voices and lived academic experiences of first-generation college students at a four-year residential college due to the emergency shift to online classes during the onset of COVID-19. What were the academic experiences of first-generation college students in that virtual environment? What were the challenges posed by…

Once the COVID-19 was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization at the beginning of 2020, almost all countries around the world shifted from traditional face to face education to distance education to prevent the spread of the virus. Türkiye implemented distance education practices through a web-based platform named education…

This qualitative study aims to understand further the lived experiences of high school mathematics teachers who underwent a sudden transformation into emergency remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study used a qualitative approach, specifically an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Emergency remote teaching has been a new…

This qualitative phenomenological study focused on the perspectives from multiple K-5 teachers in the Southwest region of the United States who recently left the profession due to the struggles they experienced in their role during the pandemic. The problem that was addressed was how the Coronavirus pandemic contributed to the high turnover rate…

The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education met to hear testimony on "Back to School: Best Practices for Reopening Schools." The meeting was entirely remote. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the obstacles schools have faced in reopening safely under the cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic, how schools can get…

The purpose of this qualitative narrative study was to examine and understand the public high school traditional learning teachers' preparations for a transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic through their lived experiences, stories, and perceptions. The problem is that the pandemic presented significant challenges for public…

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on education. The closure of schools and the cessation of face-to-face classrooms have affected schools and students worldwide. The current need is to transform the traditional classroom to adapt to the new social and educational background. The flipped classroom is usually defined…

Parents' everyday realities of enforced home-schooling during COVID-19 may offer important insights into strengths and weakness of education systems. This article presents findings from a qualitative study involving parents of primary-school-age children in England during the first 'lockdown'. Parents shared common concerns with routine,…

The worldwide disruption of higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic has been studied from the viewpoints of institutions and teachers, with some attention to students' health and learning challenges. Attempts to theorise the diverse and conflicting challenges faced by students learning online during the pandemic have been limited. It is…

In March 2020, educators worldwide faced significant challenges as authorities recommended the suspension of in-person instruction to protect staff and students from exposure to COVID-19. This qualitative descriptive phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of U.S. nursing instructors navigating the rapid change from traditional…

The outbreak of COVID-19 has posed serious challenges to schools and teachers as it forced schools to close and traditional face-to-face teaching was suspended. How did Hong Kong geography teachers respond to these challenges in the first nine months of the outbreak? How did they adapt to the social distancing measures such as school closure? Why…

The problem addressed in this study was the challenging lived experiences, beliefs, and perceptions of K-12 public school teachers from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state areas who were precipitously forced to move from face-to-face to online during the COVID-19 pandemic despite their lack of skills and preparedness to perform in…

Using neoracism (Lee & Rice, 2007) as a theoretical framework, this study explored international students' experiences, challenges, and perceptions of racism and racial discrimination during COVID-19 in the U.S. By conducting three virtual focus group interviews with 18 international students in total, we identified three key themes that…