Pandemic and school management. Challanges for future education

The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, in detail what it has represented and still represents, is the subject of continuous reflections and it poses new problems that involve both the whole society and the educational institution. After the Prime Minister's Decree (DPCM of 4th March 2020) and the consequent closure of all Italian schools, one of the greatest challenges that today the educational system still faces is certainly an afterthought of the teaching-learning process. E-learning (DAD), the exclusive solution to the educational and didactic emergency, has highlighted even more the difficulty in abandoning traditional teaching practice. From the first days of closure, teachers have measured themselves with the technological tools, adapting to virtual learning environments and transferring in e-learning the usual teaching practices carried out in the classroom. However, in these new contexts, that we could define on one hand innovative and with enormous potential, the limits, risks and shortcomings of technologically assisted teaching have also been highlighted. Therefore, in the light of the difficulties and the experience lived in this period, this research aims to investigate, understand and analyze not only the critical issues that managers have had to face in these months marked by the suspension of teaching activities in presence, but also the "good practices" they have used to better manage the school and guarantee students the right to education enshrined in Italian Constitution.