More than Meets the Eye: Rural Principal Turnover and Job-Embeddedness before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

DeMatthews, David E.; Childs, Josh; Knight, David S.; Cruz, Paul; Clarida, Kimberly

doi:10.1080/15700763.2022.2033273

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“…The United States schools are facing a teacher shortage crisis, but researchers seem to focus their efforts on urban schools despite the vacancy rates for rural and non-rural schools being the same after accounting for size (Player, 2015). Rural American schools face many challenges, from shrinking populations (Cromartie, 2020), to smaller salaries (Frahm & Cianca, 2021), and innumerable concerns, unique to each community (DeMatthews et al, 2023;Hansen, 2018).…”

Section: Challenges Associated With Rural Schoolsmentioning

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Exploring Teacher Leadership’s Effect on Teacher Burnout: Does School Rurality Make a Difference?

Xia,

Butler

2023

APJEE

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In literature, both teacher leadership and teacher burnout have been heavily studied. However, it is unknown to what extent teacher leadership makes a difference in teacher burnout, and whether school rurality makes a difference in between. This study fills the research gaps by conceptualising teacher leadership from both instructional and non-instructional dimensions and applying a quantitative method to large-scale national data. Findings revealed that (a) rural teachers presented higher levels of teacher leadership practices; (b) rural and non-rural teachers presented the same levels of burnout; and (c) both instructional and non-instructional dimensions of teacher leadership practices helped reduce teacher burnout in general, but rurality moderated the two effects differently, where instructional teacher leadership had a larger effect in non-rural schools while non-instructional teacher leadership presented a larger effect in rural schools. Discussion and recommendations for further research of teacher leadership and teacher burnout in rural schools are presented.

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Section: Challenges Associated With Rural Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Teacher Leadership’s Effect on Teacher Burnout: Does School Rurality Make a Difference?

Xia,

Butler

2023

APJEE

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“…Turnover is particularly high for school principals, with roughly 18% leaving their position each year (Goldring & Taie, 2018). School leaders face an overwhelming set of challenges that have led to a substantial increase in stress and dissatisfaction—particularly during the current pandemic and its associated tensions over student safety and parental rights (DeMatthews et al, 2002). Whenever a principal exits a school, it generally has negative effects on student and school outcomes (see: Edwards et al, 2018; Rangel, 2018).…”

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(Re)Envisioning Mindfulness for Leadership Retention

Kim

Pendola

2022

NASSP Bulletin

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An emerging body of research has shown that mindfulness practices for school administrators can result in significant benefits, including a reduction in stress and sense of burnout. Concurrently, nearly 20% of school principals exit their position each year—and cite high levels of stress as a primary motivating factor. In this conceptual paper, we seek to align the benefits of mindfulness practices for educators to the causes of principal turnover, as a means to better support local, low-cost strategies to reduce high levels of leadership attrition. We offer a framework that aligns mindfulness research with principal retention research, and follow with an identification of the organizational, social, and cultural barriers to the adoption of mindfulness practices in public schools. We conclude with specific recommendations for school and district leadership to incorporate mindfulness-based interventions into organizational practices in order to help reduce administrator stress, improve task focus, and ultimately address the underlying sources of leadership turnover.

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“Savoring” the Joy: Reducing Principal Burnout and Improving Well-Being through Positive Psychology Interventions

Su-Keene

DeMatthews

2022

The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues

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More than Meets the Eye: Rural Principal Turnover and Job-Embeddedness before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

Exploring Teacher Leadership’s Effect on Teacher Burnout: Does School Rurality Make a Difference?

Exploring Teacher Leadership’s Effect on Teacher Burnout: Does School Rurality Make a Difference?

(Re)Envisioning Mindfulness for Leadership Retention

“Savoring” the Joy: Reducing Principal Burnout and Improving Well-Being through Positive Psychology Interventions

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