“…In terms of job resources, these studies tend to identify supportive school leadership as having the strongest relationships with teacher job satisfaction (Skaalvik & Skaalvik, ; Bogler & Nir, ) and retention (Ingersoll, ; Boyd et al , ; Ladd, ; Kraft et al , ). In general, social connections appear to bolster job satisfaction (Skaalvik & Skaalvik, ; Reeves et al , ) and protect against turnover (Simon & Johnson, ). In terms of job demands, research suggests that teachers with unmanageably large workloads have lower job satisfaction (Ma & MacMillan, ; Skaalvik & Skaalvik, ).…”