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The Currency Of Teacher Trust In Working Conditions For Teacher Retention, Jeanette White
The Currency Of Teacher Trust In Working Conditions For Teacher Retention, Jeanette White
Educational Foundations & Leadership Theses & Dissertations
Virginia Public schools continue to face teacher shortages, and policymakers and school leaders are desperately seeking ways to influence teachers' decisions to stay at school. This multi-site case study of seven elementary schools offers a conceptual framework to examine how teachers' trusting relationships with students and parents relate to working conditions and retention. Teacher interview excerpts, an overall measure of teacher working conditions using the Virginia Climate and Working Conditions Survey (Virginia Department of Education, 2021), and school-level descriptive statistics were analyzed to examine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of trust and other working conditions within their schools. In this …
Sustained Employment Of Teachers In High Poverty Schools, Karen Jean Davis
Sustained Employment Of Teachers In High Poverty Schools, Karen Jean Davis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Author's abstract: The researcher's purpose of this study was to understand from the lived experiences of teachers in high poverty schools the reasons they remained in these schools. A qualitative method was used to conduct the study, which involved interviews with eight teachers (4 elementary, 2 middle and 2 high), one principal and the Superintendent who responded to open-ended interview questions. The interview questions were designed to elicit responses to the research questions and interview questions. The researcher coded transcripts from the interviews for recurring themes and patterns. Field notes from before and after each interview, as well as district …