The volume of teachers leaving the educational field is ever-pervasive across schools in the United States (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2019). Researchers have been highlighting the causes and implications of teacher attrition and mobility for decades (Bobbit et al., 1991; Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2019; Ingersoll, 2001;…

This study aimed to explore teachers' attitudes toward the compensation of their principals in public school system in Broward County, Florida. In this qualitative study, the principal was regarded as the CEO of the school, and the teachers were regarded as typical workers. The study extended research on CEO pay and helped fill the gap in the…

This study examined quiet quitting and the predictive nature of hope related to job engagement of educators. Research was conducted in a school district in the northeast United States. This quantitative study examined the correlation between job engagement and hope, to what extent hope predicted job engagement in education, and whether educator…

Music educators are guided by learning standards designed to foster comprehensive music literacy through development of four artistic processes: "Create," "Perform," "Respond," and "Connect." In-service teachers, however, cite lack of comfort and insufficient preservice preparation to engage students with…

Teacher turnover jeopardizes school effectiveness and contributes to teacher shortages directly impacting student learning. The problem addressed by this study was the negative impact of turnover in Texas Fast Growth School Coalition Districts' newly hired teachers. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study aimed to analyze the…

Secondary English Language Arts classrooms are spaces where teachers can pursue justice through curricular, pedagogical, assessment, and discretionary decisions they make, using popular asset (i.e., cultural modeling, culturally responsive pedagogy) and justice pedagogies (i.e., critical literacies, culturally sustaining pedagogy, restorative…

This qualitative single case study examined the social and emotional needs of teachers and what they need from principals to nurture the use of effective social and emotional competencies. Individual interviews were conducted with secondary teachers from one school district in Indiana. Three themes emerged. Teachers need: (1) boundaries, (2) space…

This qualitative study sought to understand the lived experiences of the participants to identify factors that contributed to their decision of becoming a secondary STEM educator. Participants were identified through criterion sampling, which ensured that the participants were (1) female, (2) Hispanic, and (3) and teach mathematics, science, or…

The shift to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic found secondary choral teachers moving traditional performance-based courses to the online venue. The pedagogical changes needed include implementing technology and disseminating information through learning management systems. Relationships between teachers and students, and teachers and…

This qualitative descriptive case study explored how instructional staff at K-12 configured charter schools describe their positive relationships with students by identifying the components that constitute positive relationships and how they employ relationship-building strategies to support student performance. The research questions that guided…

Student enrollment in K-12 blended learning classes, including for students with disabilities, has steadily increased in the last decade and is likely to continue post pandemic. Although more K-12 students with disabilities are accessing blended learning opportunities, how special education itinerant teachers (SEITs) engage students with…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to describe secondary teachers' integration of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge in their lesson implementation and the implications of that TPACK implementation on the task performance of students with learning disabilities. This study answered two research questions which were:…

This research explores the cognitive dissonance experienced by novice teachers when entering the teaching profession, specifically around cultural competence while teaching in the urban core. The study builds upon previous research by Adam Eckard, who investigated the impact of teacher preparation programs on teacher identity development in urban…

This qualitative phenomenological study examined ten Hawai'i State Department of Education educators teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2019-2020 academic school year. It was designed to understand the challenges Native Hawaiian teachers faced by providing their students with learning experiences using technology while preserving…

The problem addressed in this generic qualitative study is that special educators in a school district in the northeastern United States lack individual autonomy and support from their teaching partner and administration within the co-teaching environment, resulting in an inconsistent implementation of the co-teaching model (Chitiyo, 2017;…