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We reflected on the experience of providing community education during the COVID-19 pandemic and mapping the next steps as we navigated living with COVID-19. We explored the ways we supported and upskilled learners, tutors, and each other as a team, all while continuing to navigate our way forward in the reality of living with COVID-19 and the implications it might have for the future of community education.  \nKeywords: Community Education Pedagogy, Resilience, Collective Trauma, Group Work, ‘Capacitar’, Communities of Practice, Technology Enhanced Learning  \nIntroduction  \nModelling the values of community education, this article is the result of a process of navigation, reflection, and orientation by the Community Education (CE) team of Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB) on a path through COVID-19 and towards the development of a post-COVID-19 programme. The team consists of the community education facilitator, outreach worker and two key tutors. Our Administrator was on sick leave but otherwise would have been a participant. The process consisted of a dialogue on Zoom, recorded by the Otter app, forming the basis of subsequent dialogues and collaborative writing. Pseudonyms have been used to anonymise the discussion.  \nPre-COVID-19, we felt community education was best done in person; we did not have a Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) strategy and most of us had  \nnot heard of Zoom. We develop educational responses to needs identified by community groups in Co. Kildare, complemented by a smaller number of our own initiatives. Falling under the remit of SOLAS, we operate within the CE guidelines and targets. Areas of tension within the work include balancing a group centred pedagogy with the administrative needs of the ETB/SOLAS, management of a small staff team with high ambitions, and increasing community demand. In addition, the precarious nature of the working conditions of CE tutors means there is a high turnover of staff (Fitzsimons, 2017; O’Neill and Cullinane, 2017) .  \nWe experienced the pandemic as a ‘disorienting dilemma’ (Eschenbacherand Fleming, 2020, p.4) . Themes emerging include maintaining contact with learners, tutors, and each other; learning online in a crisis, taking CE pedagogy online, returning to in-person learning, and living with COVID-19 .  \nMaintaining Contact  \nTeam  \nAlthough expected, when the country went into lockdown, it was still a shock:  \nIt was a very intense and surreal moment when the Taoiseach made that announcement and we all started that mental calculus around, okay, so what now and evaluating the risks and the unknown situation that we were going into. And the pace of things was moving very fast and trying to think, okay, how do we start supporting our learners? What can we do? We can’t just cut them loose and let go (Isolde) .  \nTeam support was the priority, so we could then support others. We had regular meetings online, check-ins and when restrictions allowed, a socially distanced outdoor lunch.  \nHow we were able to support each other in our team. And kind of encourage each other through this process of learning in very, very fast pace, supporting each other, and then trying to support the tutors, and then trying to support the learners, and how all of that worked out in such a good way. We hada such, I suppose, a humanistic approach, but also a team approach to everything (Maria) .  \nMany including AONTASand Bríd Connolly have written about the importance of personal relationships as core to CE, so maintaining contact with ourselves,  \ntutors and groups/learners was intrinsic to our response (AONTAS, 2020, p.8; Connolly, 2008, p.74) .  \nTutors  \nO","cbCairVuKcwehEVS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairVuKcwehEVS","pdf",102251,12,"English","# Introduction\n# Maintaining Contact\n## Team\n## Tutors","[{\"question\":\"What process did the Community Education team use to develop the article?\",\"answer\":\"The team created it through collaborative reflective dialogue and writing, including Zoom conversations recorded with the Otter app, with pseudonyms used to anonymise discussion.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the team maintain contact during lockdown and restrictions?\",\"answer\":\"They prioritized team support through regular online meetings and check-ins, and used socially distanced outdoor lunches when restrictions allowed to stay connected.\"},{\"question\":\"What support and upskilling did the team provide to tutors?\",\"answer\":\"After moving remotely, they offered workshops such as “Using Zoom” and “Tutoring in a Time of Uncertainty,” later including “Capacitar,” and ensured tutors continued to be paid for interrupted work.\"}]","A Pandemic Was Not in Our Plan - Community Education During COVID-19 | PDF",1792066516]