This non-experimental, quantitative correlation study aimed to see if a correlation existed among variables of years of teaching experience and teacher leadership styles, burnout, school culture, and teachers' perception of school leadership. Transformational leadership provided the theoretical framework for this study. This study was significant…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore teacher's perceptions of teacher morale in secondary schools in a Mississippi Gulf Coast school district. The study focused on understanding how teachers viewed their morale within their respective schools. The research questions used to reveal how teachers perceived their morale were: RQ1. What…

This study aimed to explore teachers' attitudes toward the compensation of their principals in public school system in Broward County, Florida. In this qualitative study, the principal was regarded as the CEO of the school, and the teachers were regarded as typical workers. The study extended research on CEO pay and helped fill the gap in the…

Burnout is a significant challenge for special educators' wellbeing, as they report higher levels of stress than general educators. Rates of burnout are highest among special educators serving youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). At a time when nearly half of all students with EBD are spending more than 20% of their school day…

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the enactment of servant leadership could be a prospective strategy to raise teacher morale. First, the factors that cause poor teacher morale were sought. Second, the perspectives of teachers and principals regarding the notion of servant leadership in improving teacher morale were pursued. A…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to help to understand teacher morale in the local context, providing insight into the perceptions of teachers experiencing low morale surrounding the evaluation process. To achieve this goal, the research question explored was: What role do teachers from a high school in New Jersey perceive that teacher…

This dissertation investigates the influence of leadership on faculty morale and intent to leave at small colleges. An examination of the topic occurs through two distinct, but related studies with the findings represented in three separate thematically connected articles. The first paper entitled "The Faculty Voice: Factors that Affect…

This participatory action research case study describes how one secondary school aimed to improve staff culture. Although pre-test data showed the school as performing consistently well in terms of their organisational health, the school chose to implement a line management intervention over 12 months to target three low-rating factors: appraisal…

The research questions addressed in this exploratory survey research were: (1) what is the degree of teachers' morale, and what perceptions do teachers have about their district and school leadership, (2) how does the degree of teachers' morale differ by their background characteristics, and (3) how are teacher perceptions of district and school…

The purpose of this exploratory sequential mixed methods study was to understand the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on job burnout for elementary school principals, as it relates to Maslach's Multidimensional Theory of Burnout, and how to increase the stability of principals in their roles, post-COVID-19, to avoid an exodus of principals from…

In Australia, policy makers demand school leaders focus on raising student achievement levels when planning and implementing a school improvement (SI) plan. This paper explores the SI process for two Australian primary schools deemed to be underperforming and underwent a priority school support review (PSSR). In this study, 2 principals and…

This research examined the significance of the relationship between educators' burnout and morale in three private international schools in Sharjah, UAE. Correlations between individual variables from the Maslach Burnout Inventory Educators Survey, the Areas of Worklife Survey, and the Morale variables from the Charles F. Kettering School Climate…

Faculty engagement has been widely discussed as a challenge to success in higher educational institutions across a variety of contexts and types. Institutions have struggled to retain faculty amid widespread challenges that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Morale, safety, and flexibility were among the range of barriers expressed. This…

Compassion fatigue (CF) is increasingly prevalent among educators, affecting teachers across their career stages. CF tends to emerge early but can persist and intensify. While CF symptoms in teachers have been studied, there is a limited understanding of these symptoms across career stages. To address this knowledge gap, network analysis was…

Many secondary English language arts (ELA) teachers are aware of the recent bills aimed at controlling which texts are available to students, how those texts are taught, and classroom discourse on issues like racism and rights for members of LGBTQIA+ communities. In the face of book bans and attempts to control classroom discourse, this article…