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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay – RAND Corporation, 2023
How stressed are school superintendents? What are the reasons for their stress? To find out, authors surveyed 150 superintendents in American School District Panel member districts. In spring 2023, 79 percent of superintendents reported that their jobs were "often" or "always" stressful. Superintendents most commonly cited the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Role, Stress Variables, Political Issues
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Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Doan, Sy; Woo, Ashley; Gittens, Allyson D.; Lawrence, Rebecca Ann; Berdie, Lisa; Wolfe, Rebecca L.; Greer, Lucas; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2022
Principal and teacher well-being is a matter of immediate concern for principals and teachers themselves and for the students they teach. Stress on the job can negatively affect educators' physical health, and poor teacher wellness and mental health are linked with lower-quality student learning environments and with poorer academic and…
Descriptors: Principals, Teachers, Well Being, Work Environment
Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has added more stress to an already high-stress profession: American public school teacher. The authors of this report share the results of a new survey of nearly 1,000 former public school teachers and reveal how important stress has been--even more so than pay--to teachers' decisions to leave the…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions
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Doan, Sy; Greer, Lucas; Schwartz, Heather L.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2022
This technical report provides information about the sample, content, and administration of the 2022 State of the American Teacher (SoT) and State of the American Principal (SoP) surveys. The SoT survey was completed by 2,360 American Teacher Panel members, and the SoP survey was completed by 1,540 American School Leader Panel members. The…
Descriptors: State of the Art Reviews, Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys, Principals