(No) Common Time: High School Teachers’ Collaboration During a Pandemic and Beyond
This qualitative study traced high school teachers’ collaborative work before, during, and after pandemic-induced remote schooling. Conducted over 3 school years, interviews with teachers and instructional coaches at two urban high schools revealed that although teachers were more physically isolate...
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| description | This qualitative study traced high school teachers’ collaborative work before, during, and after pandemic-induced remote schooling. Conducted over 3 school years, interviews with teachers and instructional coaches at two urban high schools revealed that although teachers were more physically isolated than ever during remote schooling, collaboration increased substantially. A flexible remote schedule introduced unprecedented common time in teachers’ normally packed workdays. This change shifted norms of isolation among teachers and fostered sustained collaboration on instruction and student outreach. Participants valued the alternative workplaces these changes permitted and hoped that they might outlive remote schooling. However, interviews conducted after schools reopened revealed that collaboration had, with some exceptions, largely returned to pre-pandemic practices at both schools. These findings complicate our understanding of teachers’ work during and after COVID-19, extend limited scholarship on teacher collaboration at the high school level, and offer an empirical investigation of the critical relationship between teacher collaboration and time, an undeveloped area. Implications for school leaders and policymakers are offered. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-78c2deafd8a74e77925720b3fb4c9fdd2025-08-20T03:15:26ZengSAGE PublishingAERA Open2332-85842025-07-011110.1177/23328584251347930(No) Common Time: High School Teachers’ Collaboration During a Pandemic and BeyondJeremy T. MurphyThis qualitative study traced high school teachers’ collaborative work before, during, and after pandemic-induced remote schooling. Conducted over 3 school years, interviews with teachers and instructional coaches at two urban high schools revealed that although teachers were more physically isolated than ever during remote schooling, collaboration increased substantially. A flexible remote schedule introduced unprecedented common time in teachers’ normally packed workdays. This change shifted norms of isolation among teachers and fostered sustained collaboration on instruction and student outreach. Participants valued the alternative workplaces these changes permitted and hoped that they might outlive remote schooling. However, interviews conducted after schools reopened revealed that collaboration had, with some exceptions, largely returned to pre-pandemic practices at both schools. These findings complicate our understanding of teachers’ work during and after COVID-19, extend limited scholarship on teacher collaboration at the high school level, and offer an empirical investigation of the critical relationship between teacher collaboration and time, an undeveloped area. Implications for school leaders and policymakers are offered.https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584251347930 |
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