The Impact of COVID-19 on Teacher Practice: Before, During and Now

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all schools in the United States and the world, but in particular, urban schools. The nature of this crisis has continued to bring challenges to urban Catholic schools. Using a mixed-methods approach, quantitative (survey) and qualitative (open-ended, narratives) data, are being used to identify and understand how 31 educators made and continue to make sense of the impact of COVID-19 on their instructional practice, self-efficacy, student learning and mental health, school mission, and their perceptions of educational inequity in the urban contexts where they teach. A key aim of this research is to provide some examples of the current considerations and practices that have emerged from urban Catholic schools in response to the pandemic.

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