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An Examination of Teachers' Perceptions of Principal Support for Change and Teachers' Collaboration and Communication around Literacy Instruction in Reading First Schools
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Berebitsky, Dan; Goddard, Roger D.; Carlisle, Joanne F. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Little research has directly examined whether principal leadership can increase the degree to which teachers work together regularly in focused ways around content. Prior research has shown that reform efforts seeking to alter the process of teaching can be successful if teachers collaborate to build capacity and improve…
Descriptors: Teacher Administrator Relationship, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Collaboration, Capacity Building
Seeing the Visibly Invisible: An Intersectional Analysis of the Employee Experiences of Black Female Rural Educators
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Tran, Henry; Cunningham, Kathleen M. W.; Hardie, Suzy; Taylor, Tammy; Sauls, Rinice – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: Progressive human resources thinking has suggested the importance of employee experiences for workforce engagement, inclusion, and retention, but the intentional design of positive employee experiences requires a deep understanding of workers' lived experiences in order to respond to their differentiated needs. Although the…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Rural Schools, Work Environment, Teaching Experience
Learning from and about Elite Online Teacherpreneurs: A Qualitative Examination of Key Characteristics, School Environments, Practices, and Impacts
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Shelton, Catharyn C.; Archambault, Leanna – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: Today's teachers are turning to online educational marketplaces, such as TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT), where they purchase teacher-created classroom materials for a small fee. Meanwhile, teachers who sell resources in these spaces, online teacherpreneurs, stand to benefit financially and may experience other affordances as well as…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Web Sites, Teacher Developed Materials, Teacher Characteristics
New Opportunities for Principal Leadership: Shaping School Climates for Enhanced Teacher Development
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Drago-Severson, Eleanor – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Improved professional development for teachers and principals is central to our national educational agenda. Principals struggle with the challenge of how to build school climates that improve practice in an era of heightened accountability and increasingly complex adaptive challenges. Purpose/Objective/Research Questions/Focus…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Methods, Educational Environment
Ties with Potential: Social Network Structure and Innovative Climate in Dutch Schools
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Moolenaar, Nienke M.; Daly, Alan J.; Sleegers, Peter J. C. – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: Similar to the United States, government efforts to improve education in the Netherlands are focused on innovation and the development of collaborative structures to support the generation of new knowledge. However, empirical evidence of the relationship between social linkages and innovation in education is scarce. Objective:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Educational Innovation, Likert Scales
Teacher Working Conditions in Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools: A Comparative Study
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Ni, Yongmei – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Teachers affect student performance through their interaction with students in the context of the classrooms and schools where teaching and learning take place. Although it is widely assumed that supportive working conditions improve the quality of instruction and teachers' willingness to remain in a school, little is known…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, School Location, Charter Schools, Teacher Characteristics
How Context Matters in High-Need Schools: The Effects of Teachers' Working Conditions on Their Professional Satisfaction and Their Students' Achievement
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Johnson, Susan Moore; Kraft, Matthew A.; Papay, John P. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: Educational policy makers have begun to recognize the challenges posed by teacher turnover. Schools and students pay a price when new teachers leave the profession after only 2 or 3 years, just when they have acquired valuable teaching experience. Persistent turnover also disrupts efforts to build a strong organizational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Environment