Journal of Professional Capital and Community: Volume 6 Issue 3

Teacher disappointment: subjective definitions, factors and consequences

Shira Grossman, Izhar Oplatka

The purpose of the current study was to explore the feeling of disappointment among teachers, their subjective definition of this feeling, the sources of their disappointment and…

Enhancing teachers' and administrators learning experiences through school–university partnerships: a qualitative case study in China

Guoyuan Sang, Jun Zhou, Abdulghani Muthanna

This qualitative study aimed to explore how the school–university partnership (SUP) enhances the elementary teachers' professional development in a school-based setting.

Sustaining Indigenous students' and families' well-being and culture in an Ontario school board

Shaneé Adrienne Washington

This paper describes how an Ontario school board's majority First Nation, Metís and Inuit (FNMI) student population influenced the direction and priorities of the board toward…

Navigating the leadership tensions in creating collective responsibility

Deidre Le Fevre, Frauke Meyer, Linda Bendikson

The purpose of this research is to use a collective responsibility theoretical lens to examine the work of three school principals as they focussed on school-wide goal-setting…

Professional development for teachers of advanced placement courses

Rebecca Small, Rebecca A. Thessin, William R. Dardick

The purpose of this study was to explore how the Advanced Placement Summer Institute (APSI) supported Advanced Placement (AP) teacher's instructional needs considering the…

An exploratory study of teacher buoyancy

Angel Kit Yi Wong, Sylvia Yee Fan Tang, Dora Dong Yu Li, May May Hung Cheng

The purpose of this paper is threefold. Firstly, a new concept, teacher buoyancy, is introduced. Based on the significance to study how teachers bounce back from minor and…