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Su-Keene, Eleanor; DeMatthews, David – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2022
Principals are pivotal for creating schools that meet the needs of all students. However, the exodus of principals has been on the rise especially in the last two years as the pandemic accelerated turnover rates. Principals are experiencing greater levels of workload, stress, and burnout often without the tools for maintaining mental health. While…
Descriptors: Principals, Burnout, Intervention, Well Being
Heffernan, Amanda; Selwyn, Neil – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Amid the increasing digitisation of schools, relatively little work has examined the ways in which digital technologies are reconfiguring the work of school principals. With an approach based on the sociology of work, this paper draws on 19 in-depth interviews with Australian school principals to examine their everyday experiences of digital…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail, Principals, Foreign Countries
Eva Chiang; Anne Wicks – George W. Bush Institute, 2022
Being a principal is a hard job in normal circumstances, but COVID-19 made the job of leading campuses nearly impossible for many. In a recent survey, one out of two principals said their stress level is so high that they are considering career change or retirement. This report details findings from a five-year project called the School Leadership…
Descriptors: Principals, Talent Development, Labor Turnover, Persistence
DeMatthews, David; Carrola, Paul; Reyes, Pedro; Knight, David – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2021
Principals are critical to improving schools, but job-related stress and burnout are factors that can limit principal effectiveness and lead to untimely turnover. Extant literature, leadership preparation programs, and district policies have largely ignored principal burnout despite the increased complexity of the principalship and increasing…
Descriptors: Principals, Burnout, Work Environment, Stress Variables
Davis, Charles R.; Lynch, Erik J.; Davis, Patti A. – Planning and Changing, 2021
Of the myriad responsibilities of the building principal, the most recognized and critical activity is overseeing and ensuring student success in the classroom. Considering the diverse population of professionals that building principals have under their supervision that directly impact students' classroom learning, the authors posit that a…
Descriptors: Principals, School Nurses, Interpersonal Relationship, Work Environment
MacKinnon, Kenneth – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2019
This case study follows Maggie, a principal of a large urban elementary school, as she navigates principalship as a woman, revealing various gendered discourses along the way. Maggie recognizes gender as a factor and makes distinctions between male and female ways of leading. She reveals some of the barriers she faces as a female principal and…
Descriptors: Principals, Females, Women Administrators, Urban Schools
Hoerr, Thomas R. – Educational Leadership, 2015
A recent controversy over Amazon's culture has strong implications for the whole child approach, and it offers powerful lessons for principals. A significant difference between the culture of so many businesses today and the culture at good schools is that in good schools, the welfare of the employees is very important. Student success is the…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Principals, Students, Teachers
Fuller, Edward J.; Pendola, Andrew; Young, Michelle D. – Online Submission, 2018
New research has identified teacher working conditions as having a greater effect on teacher turnover than most other factors, including student achievement and student characteristics. Importantly, research has debunked the conventional wisdom that teachers often leave schools because of student characteristics. This brief discusses how teacher…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence
Cohen, Rinat; Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2019
The phase of entering the role of assistant principals and the coping strategies assistant principals use upon entering their role have barely been studied. Most studies that dealt with assistant principals focused mainly on the role of the assistant principals and their readiness to advance to the position of school principal, while the study…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Coping, Administrator Role, Adjustment (to Environment)
Schroeder, Bryan – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2016
Servant leadership remains as one of the most effective models of leadership today. School principals who embody this leadership paradigm encourage and enable teachers, and demonstrate a desire to build school community. Teachers' effectiveness increases as they are honoured and served by their principal, thereby impacting students, colleagues,…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Principals, Teacher Effectiveness, Work Environment
Hutchins, Shaun D. – Online Submission, 2016
AISD conducts an online survey of administrative employees leaving the district. The Human Resources Exit Survey asks four questions about the reasons for leaving. This report describes principals' reasons for leaving in 2015-2016.
Descriptors: School Districts, School Personnel, Labor Turnover, Human Resources
Rutt, Simon – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2020
On May 10th, 2020 the Prime Minister announced a phased return of some children to school in England from June 1st. Schools had been closed to all but vulnerable and keyworker children since March 20th, meaning that most children have been educated at home for a period of 10 weeks, and some year groups are not expected to return to school until…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Satisfaction, Elementary Secondary Education
Goings, Ramon B.; Walker, Larry J.; Cotignola-Pickens, Heather – Educational Planning, 2018
Diversifying the teaching profession has garnered attention from researchers, policy makers, and educational stakeholders. However, missing within this conversation is the role of school and district leaders in diversifying the teaching profession. We argue that without considering school and district leaders, diversity initiatives will not have a…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Administrator Role, School Districts, Principals
Ritchie, John M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
For a "Kappan" issue focusing on the job of the principal, this is an essay from a retired, longtime principal and superintendent. "I have notebooks full of advice that I've collected over the years: tips, mantras, cautions, and quotations appropriate for any occasion," the author says. "I learned to focus less on…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Reflection, Work Environment
Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie; Bocala, Candice; Bailey, Jessica – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2016
This study examined the relationship between teachers' perceptions of school professional climate and their satisfaction with the process for evaluating their performance. It used the responses of a nationally representative sample of teachers to examine whether teachers' satisfaction with the evaluation process was associated with two measures of…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Satisfaction, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes