The purpose of this qualitative narrative study was to explore educators' perceptions of the conditions that might generate collective teacher efficacy within teacher teams so that educational leaders and teachers can attend to and foster these conditions within their buildings. This study explored teacher perceptions regarding certain conditions,…

The high rate of burnout experienced among teachers was the driving problem addressed throughout this study. Burnout has long been an issue in public service arenas, and, within education, costs school districts across the nation millions of dollars annually. The purpose of this investigation was to examine perceptions of burnout in relation to…

Poverty has always been a problem in the United States and no doubt the condition unfortunately will always prevail. Title One schools will always have children enrolled who come from the lower socioeconomic class. This article has to do with the devastating effect of poverty, including stories from a classroom teacher of students who lived in…

Teacher education programs can't prepare educators for everything that they might encounter on the job. Regardless of where they earn their degree--and even if they have had solid student teaching experiences before they claim their credential--new teachers are bound to face unexpected, upsetting, occasionally funny, and sometimes awkward…

What is the method by which the elementary school can be brought up to twentieth-century standards? The answer is "a complete administrative and curriculum reorganization of the elementary school." The efforts of John Dewey in his highly socialized experimental school in Chicago, of Merriam at Missouri University, and of William Wirt at…