School principals are exclusively placed to make campus-wide decisions required to lead campuses academically, provide a safe environment, and serve as chief human capital managers. The tasks can lead to an increase in school achievement outcomes and job-related stress. Emotional intelligence (EI) may allow individuals to manage and perceive the…

This qualitative research study explored South Texas educators' perceptions of emotional intelligence after COVID-19. The study aimed to develop an understanding about teachers' emotional intelligence and perceived impacts on secondary teacher job proficiency. A qualitative approach employing a phenomenology methodology was used. Purposive…

Undergraduate medical students run the risk of experiencing burnout throughout their training. The literature has demonstrated that strengthening emotional intelligence and understanding the authentic self has implications for well-being. This non-experimental, cross-sectional study aimed to test the relationship between emotional intelligence,…

Successful leadership in the educational setting requires a unique and multifaceted skillset. It is a person-centric job with layered nuances which present challenges unique to the educational setting. The principal's responsibility to ensure positive outcomes and successful student achievement is beholden to creating and sustaining a safe…

Schrenzinger and Wettstein (2019) define classroom management as the actions a teacher takes to develop a classroom atmosphere where students feel supported, and the teacher facilitates academic success and social-emotional learning. The problem addressed in this research is classroom management in secondary public-school settings continues to be…

With the increasing demands on school administrators, districts are realizing that the job of leading schools cannot be left to the building principal alone. Educational organizations are being forced to re-imagine the roles of those leaders and how teacher leadership, specifically instructional coaching can contribute to the overall well-being…

Service learning can bridge the gap between traditional and transformational learning, as students are able to relate the course terminology directly to field experience. This project was set up to determine if volunteering for a semester at Hospice had any effect on emotional intelligence and positivity. A paired samples t-test compared…

This phenomenological study explored the effects of five constructs of learning on student employability as perceived by secondary CTE teachers at a career center in Southeast Texas. Interviews of 11 career center instructors were coded and analyzed using thematic analysis to reveal themes for interpretation. The learning and employability model…

Within the last couple of decades, higher education faced unprecedented change. As higher education changed, academic deans' roles also changed to meet the demands of increased enrollment and serving diverse student populations. Academic deans lead from the middle of higher education institutions; they must report to university administration,…

As a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, public school educators encountered several difficulties acquiring and integrating curriculum online. The problem addressed in this study was the negative effect online curriculum implementation had on student achievement as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this qualitative, exploratory case…

Twelve veteran teachers in Texas were interviewed for this qualitative study, to explore their perception of the influence of emotional intelligence on the success of campus leaders in a mid-sized, rural school district in East Texas. Five research questions framed in the context of Daniel Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence, guided this…

Being a 21st century learner may require a shift in the education paradigm. To be successful students may need to possess a different type of intelligence. Cherniss (2001), Goleman (1995), and O'Neil (1996), suggest that the key to positive life outcomes might consider emotional intelligence as more important than intellectual quotient (IQ).…

Objective: The authors sought to determine whether emotional intelligence, as measured by the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), is associated with selection to administrative chief resident. Method: Authors invited senior-year residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to participate in an observational…

The purpose of this study was to discern if there are significant differences in a teacher's level of burnout based on his or her emotional intelligence quotient. This quantitative study examined the relationship between demographic characteristics, an emotional quotient inventory, and a burnout inventory to find significant relationships between…

The current study used a mixed design ANOVA to compare the I-Ready reading comprehension scores of 76 students enrolled in an elementary school in South Texas. A previously untested intervention, a literacy-related social skills group, derived from the constructs of emotional intelligence, was compared to the more orthodox interventions of a…