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Troy, Kimberly Doris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Burnout is a psychological phenomenon that is common among professions that have a high demand for empathy, such as those in the mental health field. School counselors are more at risk of feeling burnout than other professions because of numerous demands from the job, role conflict and ambiguity, large caseloads, and the amount of time spent on…
Descriptors: Burnout, Empathy, School Counselors, Risk
Shirley H. Xu; Francisco Arturo Santelli; Jason A. Grissom; Brendan Bartanen; Susan Kemper Patrick – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Teachers of color often work in schools with few colleagues from the same racial or ethnic background. This "racial isolation" may affect their work experiences and important job outcomes, including retention. Using longitudinal administrative and survey data, we investigate the degree to which Tennessee teachers who are more racially…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Employment Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Racism
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Moos, Lejf – School Leadership & Management, 2011
There is no shared understanding of what school leaders are expected to do. Schools have many external as well as internal stakeholders and each of them has different expectations as to leadership practice. Thus school leadership is a "fluid signifier". This article first outlines external expectations that school leaders are faced with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Work Environment, Job Performance
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Niesche, Richard – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2010
The aim of this paper is to illustrate how principal subjectivities are constructed by particular normalizing processes that occur through the disciplinary power of grants and submission writing. An increasing part of the principal's job, under moves towards self-governing schools, is a reliance of grants and submissions in order to obtain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Based Management, Principals, Grants
Edwards, John Dexter – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to provide process data for school counselors, administrators, and the public, regarding school counselors' actual roles within the guidance counselor preferred job duties and actual job duties. In addition, factors including National Certification or no National Certification, years of counseling experience, and…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Work Environment, Job Satisfaction
Adelman, Howard; Taylor, Linda – Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2011
This brief highlights what principals say about their work, especially about how the job has changed and what factors most affect job performance and satisfaction. The data have been culled from various surveys, reports, interviews, and so forth published since 2000. Specific attention is given to the degree to which concerns about addressing…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Principals, Barriers, Administrator Effectiveness