Reports & Presentations
Periodically we publish updates for or make presentations to the educational community with the intent of sharing data and findings in real time. Links to presentations are listed and reports can be downloaded or read by scrolling right here on the website.
Report From the Field
Teaching Through Crisis: Career Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Report 4: Published June 30, 2023
This report details teachers' career trajectories and explores how working conditions shape career decisions.
Report 4.pdfReport From the Field
Teachers on Learning & Leadership During COVID-19
Report 3: Published Nov. 4, 2022
This report details teachers' experiences of learning and professional development during the pandemic.
Report 3.pdfReport From the Field
Suddenly Distant & Still in Flux: Teachers' Work During COVID-19
Report 2: Published January 15, 2021
This report chronicles teachers' journeys from summer 2020 projections and concerns about the fall to the lived realities of the 2020-21 school year.
Report 2.pdfReport From the Field
Suddenly Distant: Teachers' Work During COVID-19 in Spring 2020
Report 1: Published Nov 15, 2020
This report details teachers' experiences navigating the emergency conditions of Spring 2020.
Suddenly Distant_ Teachers' Work During COVID-19 in Spring 2020 (1).pdf
EdPrepLab
Voices from the Field:
What Early Career Teachers Need Right Now
SDRP project principal investigator, Judith Warren Little, Dean and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, shared findings from our project and moderated a June 8, 2022 discussion with new teachers about their experiences and, specifically, to hear what they need right now to enact equity-focussed, deeper learning practices in their classrooms. For more details, visit the EdPrep Website and you can watch a recording of the panel here:
National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine
Teaching and the Teacher Workforce Workshop
June 1 & 2, 2021
On June 1, 2021, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a two day workshop examining the impact COVID-19 has had on the teaching profession.
In that session, Professor Lora Bartlett shared findings from the Suddenly Distant Research Project as part of a Session on Being a Teacher: The Experience of the Last Year.
This recorded event can be accessed at the National Academy website
UC Santa Cruz University Forum
Jan 13, 2021
Suddenly Distant and Still in Flux:
The Implications of COVID-19 for K12 Teachers’ Work and Schooling
On January 13, 2021, the Suddenly Distant Research Project Team presented the emergent findings of their research at an online forum hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz and moderated by Professor and Education Department Chair Cynthia Lewis.
The presentation drew on in-depth interviews with 75 teachers in nine states to explore the ways that state and local responses to the pandemic have reshaped schooling and teachers’ working lives, affected teachers’ work/family lives, and exacerbated as well as abated long standing educational equity issues.
Professor Lora Bartlett and research team members discussed the patterns that have emerged, the implications for the teaching profession and K-12 schooling, and offered insights into teachers’ feelings about how schools can best navigate this crisis.
Welcome & Opening Comments: Dr. Cynthia Lewis (01:00-07:15)
Overview of the Project: Dr. Lora Bartlett (07:15-15:30)
The Work of Teachers & COVID-19: Dr. Judith Warren Little & Dr. Lora Bartlett (15:30-35:00)
Parenting Teachers: Dr. Alisun Thompson & Dr. Lina Darwich (35:00-48:00)
Collective Voice of Teachers: Riley Collins & Dr. Julia E. Koppich (49:00-58:00)
Q&A and Closing Remarks (58:00-1:28)