Providing Continuity of Student Instruction During and After COVID-19: An International Study of School Leader’s Use of Technology

This chapter presents a longitudinal, cross-national analysis of the ways in which school principals in Kenya, Greece, and the USA used technology to maintain student instruction in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020 through January 2021). The research was qualitative in nature, and data were obtained through interviews and focus groups. The researchers identify common themes across the three countries, as well as the findings that are unique to each national context. In particular, this chapter explores school principals’ response to an unprecedented global pandemic for which schools were largely unprepared, yet which necessitated a quick response from school principals with a focus on the ways in which school principals were able to maximize the use of instructional technology for the benefit of their students, despite the challenges they faced.