Purpose: This paper explores the role of professional collaboration and agency during the global COVID-19 pandemic and possible lessons for the future from the perspective of a teacher, leader and postgraduate researcher. Design/methodology/approach: This essay explores the complex role of collaboration and agency in responding to the challenges arising during the global COVID-19 pandemic utilizing research as well as the author's lived experience. Findings: The author finds that through a renewed emphasis on effective professional collaboration and agency, not only are there opportunities to embed lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is also scope to work towards education systems that reflect the complex global socio-political contexts communities may find themselves in and the evolving needs that result from them. Originality/value: This paper offers insights into the work of teachers and school leaders, the increasing complexity of their roles over time, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering what this might mean for the future.

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重新思考大流行后时代的专业合作和代理

目的：本文从教师，领导者和研究生的角度探讨了全球COVID-19大流行中专业合作和代理机构的作用以及未来可能的经验教训。设计/方法论/方法：本文利用研究和作者的经验，探讨了协作和代理在应对全球COVID-19大流行期间出现的挑战中的复杂作用。调查结果：作者发现，通过再次强调有效的专业合作和代理，不仅有机会吸取在COVID-19大流行期间汲取的教训，而且还存在着朝着反映复杂的全球社会政治思想的教育体系努力的空间。社区可能会发现自己所处的环境以及由此产生的不断变化的需求。