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University at Montgomery  \n## Abstract\n\nIn the past year, the coronavirus has been one of the most unpredictable global health crises thathas impacted the United States. The decision to move in person learning to remote learning causeduncertainty and unpredictable challenges for the entire education system. This article willhighlight transformational leadership best practices for navigating through uncertainty.Transformational leadership has been one of the most influential leadership models applied toeducational leadership over the past several decades (Berkovich, 2016) . Hooper and Bernhard(2016) characterized transformational leadership as a model for the school stakeholders to worktogether for the same common goal.  \nKeywords: transformational leadership, instructional leadership, uncertainty, leadershippractices, student achievement  \nThe coronavirus andthe disease it causes, COVID-19 has caused a lot of uncertainty withinschool districts throughout the United States. The coronavirus pandemic has impacted educatorsas they attempt to ensure high quality teaching and learning through remote learning.Transitioning to remote learning may require for radical changes in attitude, values and beliefs forsome stakeholders (Heifetz & Laurie, 2001) . Doraiswamy (2012) stated that empathy, compassionand flexibility are crucial for crisis management. Instructional leaders impact the direction ofschools through their thinking, practices, and relationships (Bolman & Deal, 2013) . Redding andCorbett (2018) acknowledged the importance of a school’s culture, particularly when a leaderwants, or needs, to make changes to improve school outcomes. A principal is influential to thesuccessful functioning of a school andthe quality of school performance is linked to the principal’sstyle of leadership (Nir & Hameiri, 2014) . In order to support remote learning, instructionalleaders must use a new toolbox of intellectual stimulation, idealized influence and inspiration(Fernandez & Shaw, 2020) . This purpose of this article is to highlight transformational leadershipbest practices for navigating through uncertain challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic.  \n## The Instructional Leader\n\nGlover (2007) stated that real leadership, challenges the leader, before it challenges others.This past year instructional leaders have had to redefine their role. Researchers have indicated thateffective leadership influences academic outcomes for students and prepares them for career,college, and life (Day, Gu, & Sammons, 2016; Kouzes & Posner, 2017; Pietsch & Tulowitzki,2017; Ross & Cozzens, 2016) . Instructional leaders impact student achievement in various ways,such as clearly framing and articulating the school’s goals and objectives to collaboratively createa mission for the school (Rey & Bastons, 2018) . The instructional leader brings all stakeholderstogether through a shared mission and everybody moves towards achieving a school’s visionthrough the instructional leader’s actions (Kafele, 2017) . Ritchie (2013) indicated that aninstructional leader must develop a vision as “the single goal of creating and nourishing the bestpossible environment for teaching and learning” (p. 21) . This is acquired through their supportiveand caring behavior, in which instructional leaders can positively impact productivity of their staffas a whole (Gülsen & Gülenay, 2014; Scallion, 2010) . Hitt and Tucker (2016) discussed the stronglink between student achievement and how the instructional leader influences expectations forquality instruction. There are many leadership characteristics and practices that influence leaders.Kouzes and Posner (2017) studied leaders from a variety of organizations at all levels to identifyfive common leadership practices. 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