COVID-19 prompted unprecedented disruptions to schools with challenges particularly severe for high-poverty remote rural schools. This case study recounts the story of a rural school that had participated in a research-practice partnership (RPP) multi-year improvement effort prior to the pandemic and documents the ways the RPP and the school-based…

Suggests techniques for vocational teachers who must implement a new curriculum that they did not develop. Techniques include (1) understanding the curriculum, (2) making a gradual change, (3) establishing communications with an expert, (4) establishing a user group, and (5) observing another teacher in action. (CH)