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Kentucky Department of Education, 2020
While the usual transitional concerns will be present when schools reopen, it is anticipated that this fall's return to school will be particularly challenging. Teachers and administrators should operate on the assumption that everyone, (students, families and staff) will have experienced some degree of anxiety and stress, uncertainty, illness,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
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Wheeler, Deborah S.; LaRocco, Diana J. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2009
The purpose of this study was to describe special education administrators' reports of the social supports (House, 1981) that ameliorate the stress inherent in their professional role. This study used a mixed methods design and was conducted in two sequential phases involving 153 special education administrators in a northeastern state. During…
Descriptors: Special Education, Public Education, Administrator Role, Social Support Groups
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Quinlan, Kathleen M. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 1999
Discusses advantages and disadvantages of various types of career-supportive relationships that make up academic women's webs of intellectual, social, personal, and political ties, including formal mentoring, networking, and peer-support programs. Several strategies rooted in each of these models are presented, based on a review of current…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Higher Education, Mentors
Daresh, John C. – 1986
Several problems and issues are typical of the beginning years of a principalship. A study of first- and second-year principals in a midwestern state classified these problems and issues into three broad areas: role clarification, limitations on technical expertise, and difficulties with socialization to the profession and to a particular school…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility
Farrell, Karla – Campus Activities Programming, 1996
Campus activities programmers are offered strategies for coping with overbearing administrators and a hostile work environment, and deciding when to resign, including building a support network within and outside the institution, becoming involved in the local community, drafting a letter of resignation, building personal savings, and choosing…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Coping, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education
Attawell, Kathy; Elder, Katharine – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2006
Although there is a need for enhanced evidence-based information on successful HIV and AIDS education interventions, much has already been learnt about good practices and policies in the education sector's response to the pandemic. This booklet, to be used in tandem with others in the series, aims to further expand our knowledge by highlighting…
Descriptors: Health Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Communicable Diseases, Teacher Education