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This exploratory qualitative study sought to learn from the lived experiences of social work instructors in the United States during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic to identify the many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social work education and social work students in spring 2020. Participants were recruited through snowball sampling, with invitations to participate shared on several social work and social work education listservs and social media sites. The web-based open-ended survey was available from May 15, 2020 to June 15, 2020. In completing the survey, social work educators described the challenges they and students encountered as well as sources of strength and resilience that allowed people to meet these challenges. Qualitative analysis of open-ended survey items utilized inductive content analysis based on Creswell’s (2012) description of a systematic grounded-theory design.

Participant responses inform key areas for social work education to proactively address, not only in response to COVID-19, but in response to many of the existing social inequities and gaps that the pandemic has highlighted. Responses also provide deep insight into how social work education can enact the values it teaches by embedding resiliencepromoting and protective factors into the explicit and implicit curriculum. These lessons inform the work to be done in the coming months and years, as social work education responds to the long-term impact of the pandemic and the pre-existing social conditions that deepened that impact in the United States.