This study investigated the phenomenon of citizenship pressure (CP) in schools. CP in the school setting is a job demand that causes teachers to feel pressured to contribute above and beyond the call of duty. We scrutinized whether teacher subject team CP is translated to team organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We also examined the impact…

This study designed three scenarios to investigate school staff's handling strategies of cyberbullying. A total of 507 school staffs volunteered to participate in this study. The results show that the most two handling strategies were approaching and talking to the bully and asking other experts. In the case of public humiliation, one third of the…

Workplace bullying in K-12 schools is defined as any administrator behavior causing, in the teacher's eyes, "psychological-emotional, physical-physiological, personal, and/or professional harm to oneself" (Blasè, Blasè, & Du, 2008, p. 265). The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' perceptions of their experiences with…

Public schools have been under great scrutiny. National and international tests have exposed deficiencies of students' knowledge prompting federal and state legislation to focus on improving schools' effectiveness. The pressure induced by recent legislation have school districts scrambling to increase student achievement. One area of reform…

This study explored the ways in which our classroom community (students and teacher) engaged with humanizing pedagogy in a seventh grade science classroom, toward the full development of our classroom community, and the dismantling of inequitable practices and unjust policies that we recognized in our science classroom, school and/or community…

This multiple case study unpacks White teachers' experiences of perceived cultural differences in their classrooms and deciphers their readiness to work with American Indian students. Situating our study using Tribal Critical Race Theory and culturally responsive teaching and using a developed conceptual model of Teacher Readiness to Work with…