Supporting School Staff through COVID-19: Central Office School Psychology Leadership

Autor/in	Olley, Rivka I.
Titel	Supporting School Staff through COVID-19: Central Office School Psychology Leadership
Quelle	In: Communique, 49 (2020) 4, S.1 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0164-775X
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; School Closing; Disease Control; Leadership Responsibility; School Psychologists; Online Courses; Distance Education; School Districts; Administrator Role; Counties; Public Schools; Cooperation; Maryland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); School psychologist; Psychologists; School; Schools; Schulpsychologe; Schulpsychologin; Psychologe; Psychologin; Psychologen; Online course; Online-Kurs; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; School district; Schulbezirk; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Co-operation; Kooperation
Abstract	On March 13, 2020, following the directives given on March 12 by the State Superintendent of Education in Maryland (Dr. Karen Salmon), all public schools across the state were to be closed for 2 weeks beginning March 16 following the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. It was hard to believe that a new pandemic would be any worse than SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which emerged in 2002 and spread worldwide within a few months. SARS and COVID-19 are both coronaviruses. The SARS pandemic to Americans did not seem that bad. With that attitude, it was thought that perhaps COVID-19 would mean a couple of weeks off and everything would return to normal. It did not. On March 12, there were 12 confirmed cases in Maryland. By August 13, there were 100,212 confirmed cases and 3,502 deaths. Maryland districts, like many across the country, had to quickly put together a whole new way to deliver education and psychological services. Maryland has six of the top 75 large school districts in the country: Prince Georges County, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Howard County, and Montgomery County (one of the largest in the United States). Each county has school psychology directors, supervisors, and/or coordinators who oversee the work of school psychologists within the district. Maryland is fortunate to have a strong state organization and many leaders in National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) past and present. Many leaders in NASP have assumed leadership roles in districts across the state and currently active members include Christina Conolly, Cynthia Schulmeyer, and Rivka Olley. There are 24 school districts in the state of Maryland. This article will present some of the issues dealt with through the eyes of some of the supervisors of Maryland's urban, suburban, and more rural districts. It is also aimed at talking about the unique support that all the district school psychologist leaders provide to one another via regular emails and periodic videoconference meetings. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01