Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 60 Issue 4

The impact of transformational leadership on teachers' job burnout: the mediating role of social-emotional competence and student-teacher relationship

Jin Tian, Wanying Zhang, Yaqing Mao, David Gurr

Principal leadership is an important external environmental factor that affects and alleviates teachers' job burnout. The purpose of this paper is to explore the deep internal…

Theorizing school leadership as a profession: a qualitative exploration of the work of school leaders

Corrie Stone-Johnson, Jennie Weiner

In response to the proliferation of neoliberal reforms and a “new professionalism” (Evetts, 2009, 2011), researchers argue that school leaders, like teachers, have experienced a…

Responsibility, stress and the well-being of school principals: how principals engaged in self-care during the COVID-19 crisis

Sonya D. Hayes, Erin Anderson, Bradley W. Carpenter

This study centers the reflections of principals across the USA as they navigated the overwhelming stress of closing and reopening schools during a global pandemic. Specifically…

School leadership and achievement gaps based on socioeconomic status: a search for socially just instructional leadership

Sedat Gümüş, Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş, Marcus Pietsch

The research literature in this field demonstrates that instructional leadership provided by principals is essential for student learning, but the question of its impact on…

Building experience and retention: the influence of principal tenure on teacher retention rates

Sarah Guthery, Lauren P. Bailes

Hiring teachers is among principals' most critical work but what remains uncertain is the relationship between a principal's tenure in a school and the rate at which they hire…