ARTICLE Crisis as opportunity: experiences of Norwegian school leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic Mari-Ana Jones 1 , mari.a.jones@ntnu.no https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3833-6138 Erlend Dehlin 1 , erlend.dehlin@ntnu.no Kristin Skoglund 1 , kristin.skoglund@ntnu.no https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1849-979X Carl F. Dons 1 , carl.f.dons@ntnu.no 1 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.26203/pnqv-m135 Copyright: © 2021 Jones et al. To cite this article: Jones, M-A., Dehlin, E., Skoglund, K. and Dons, C. F. (2021). Crisis as opportunity: experiences of Norwegian school leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Education in the North, 28(3) pp. 274-292. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.