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Investigating High Teacher Turnover at an Historically Underserved School District
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John Marderosian – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this Action Research study was to investigate and improve teacher retention at Southside Public Schools, an urban public school district in Massachusetts. Participants and data collected in Cycle 1 consisted of an interview with the school district's superintendent, a focus group that included Southside's director of human…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, School Districts, Disadvantaged Schools, Action Research
Teacher Retention-Supply and Demand: What Needs to Happen and How Should It Be Done?
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Grant, Will – ProQuest LLC, 2011
My goal in this study is to examine some of the diminishing factors that distinctively influence the limited presence of African American teachers in the teaching profession. The study is designed to investigate some of the reasons a large number of African American teachers appear to be leaving the teaching profession. A review of the…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Statistical Analysis
Teacher Reported Job Satisfaction and Teacher Reported Understanding of the Evaluation Process: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Case Study of One Urban Public School District
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Walsh, Maura – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Although there is wide consensus that teacher evaluation processes should be used to identify and measure effective teaching, this has always been an elusive goal. How teachers perceive the evaluative process is a crucial determiner of how the results of the evaluations are utilized. In 2010, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Mixed Methods Research