When leaders don't prioritize their wellness, supporting teachers and students becomes challenging. This resource emphasizes wellness as a core part of a leader's identity, addressing low morale and exploring personal connections. It outlines six critical actions for self-care, goal setting, and professional learning, enabling leaders to create…

While the issue of teacher stress is widely recognized, little is currently known about childcare teachers' stress, its impact on teaching, and the relationship with professional activities. This study utilizes ecological momentary assessment (EMA) techniques with 50 early care teachers to examine the relationship between childcare teachers'…

Secondary education in Bangladesh faces numerous challenges, with teachers, as key stakeholders, bearing much of the pressure. This study explores the educational system in Bangladesh and examines various issues faced by teachers in their profession. A semi-structured interview method was employed to gather data, with participants selected from…

Empathy is an emotional intelligence skill that has been known to make significant impacts in various professional environments. Teachers have always been expected to work at high levels in the midst of difficulties. Educators are constantly inundated with increasing workloads, added responsibilities, ever changing expectations and regular…

The importance of continuous teacher training and development in urban schools is a recurrent topic. Training and development for teachers provide them with the assistance they need to be guided to mastery, which in turn raises student accomplishment and enhances the instructors' own sense of self-efficacy. Teachers with low levels of…

Compared to average workers in the United States, teachers exhibit higher levels of job-related stress, with roughly half of teachers showing signs of burnout. For policymakers and school leaders, some promising levers to lower teacher burnout are salaries, work schedules, and working conditions. This brief describes the findings of a new impact…

In the following article, we wrestle with the following salient questions: How do we reengage faculty when they are surrounded by chronic stress and are experiencing overwhelming negative emotions? When many of them feel overworked and underappreciated? When they haven't even begun to process the loss and grief? In this midst of ongoing…

This article describes the impact of targeted programs on faculty reengagement at one hospital and medical school over the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing theories grounded in the literature of both the constructs of employee engagement and scholarship of engagement, the authors implemented flexible faculty learning…

This study aimed to enhance leadership abilities among special education teachers using Behavioral Skills Training (BST). It highlights the issue of staff burnout and lack of support within the workplace among special education professionals working in self-contained classrooms with individuals with disabilities. This study aimed to bridge the gap…

The purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to explore the relationship between cultural intelligence and burnout in teachers. This purpose was rooted in a growing trend of teachers reporting a significant degree of burnout and education frequently being noted as one of the most stressful professions in the job market (Johnson et al., 2005;…

Teaching staff report poorer mental health and wellbeing than the general working population. Intervention to address this issue is imperative, as poor wellbeing is associated with burnout, presenteeism, and adverse student mental health outcomes. The Wellbeing in Secondary Education (WISE) intervention is a secondary school-based programme aimed…

Teacher resilience has become a prominent and multidimensional subject of interest in recent educational research. Its growing recognition has fuelled a wealth of investigations, necessitating a quantitative science mapping approach for comprehensive understanding of this evolving domain. This paper conducts a bibliometric analysis of empirical…

In March of 2020, educational institutions worldwide experienced mass school closures mandated to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as part of public health efforts. Millions of educators and students around the world began to teach and study through distance education. In order to deliver high-quality instruction, educators were required to adapt to…

Both the external socio-economic, safety and health conditions, as well as the changes implemented by the education sector (reforms of the curriculum content and approach, the shift of educational development strategy and organizational structure paradigm, technological changes, pandemic restrictions, shortage of teachers) are changing rapidly in…

Teacher stress and burnout impact a teachers' daily activities, the student's learning, and attrition. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain teachers' viewpoints on how teachers can mitigate the stress they feel, what could support them during this process, and what could be done to prevent them from changing their teaching…