Background: The COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education and requiring large scale school transformation on a pace never before seen. Though prior research on organizational change has emphasized the importance of working conditions for teacher satisfaction and student achievement…

COVID-19 shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education. We examine teachers' experiences during emergency remote teaching in the spring of 2020 using responses to a working conditions survey from a sample of 7,841 teachers across 206 schools and 9 states. Teachers reported a range of challenges related to…

COVID-19 shuttered schools across the United States, upending traditional approaches to education. We examine teachers' experiences during emergency remote teaching in the spring of 2020 using responses to a working conditions survey from a sample of 7,841 teachers across 206 schools and 9 states. Teachers reported a range of challenges related to…

Historically, workplace morale improvement has been an elusive target for company executives and higher management. Faculty, support staff, and other associated personnel at public colleges/universities, as in other workplaces, need to know that their work is recognized as significant. For the most part faculty want to believe they have excellent…

A study of vocational agriculture teachers in Virginia attempted to discern if first year teachers differed in morale from teachers with more than one year's experience. No statistically significant differences were found between the two groups. Scores on various morale factors are analyzed in relationship to national norms. (HD)

Questionnaire responses from 286 Virginia teachers trained in special education but teaching in general education were analyzed. The primary reasons cited for leaving special education included administrative factors and stress involved in working with special education students. (Author/DB)

Data collected from a survey of beginning and experienced agricultural education teachers in Virginia were analyzed to determine what relationships exist between selected demographic variables and teacher morale. Generally, no statistically significant correlation was found. Further attention should be given to the question of why Virginia teacher…

The long maintained tenet that vocational agriculture teachers are overall a contented group with high moral was not supported by a study examining the relationship between Virginia first-year agricultural education teachers' morale and their classroom behavior. The methodology, results, summary, and implications are reported in this article. (BM)

A questionnaire was completed by 463 special educators and 493 general educators in Virginia. Analysis indicated that work-related variables, such as leadership support, role conflict, role ambiguity, and stress, are better predictors of commitment and job satisfaction than are demographic variables. Findings were similar for general and special…

A model of influences affecting early career teachers' job satisfaction was developed and tested. The path model, tested with 250 Black and 262 White teachers, indicated that influences leading to satisfaction differ across racial groups; and sexual differences should be considered in teacher induction and training. (TJH)

In 1990, a survey was conducted of all full-time humanities and social sciences faculty at eight community colleges in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The study collected demographic data and examined the relationship between aging (both an individual's chronological age and length of time in the system) and job satisfaction through…