For Researchers

• Principal Behaviors that Encourage Teachers to Stay in the Profession: Perceptions of K-8 Teachers in Their Second to Fifth Year of Teaching (2002)

  Teacher attrition is a continuing problem, and teachers in their first five years are reported to be the group most at risk (Johnson et al., 2001). Ingersoll (2001) described the teaching profession as a “revolving door, an occupation in which there are relatively large flows in, through, and out of schools.” It is crucial to find ways to slow this exodus and to retain the teachers we have. Paper presented at AERA, 2002.

• Principal Behaviors that Encourage Teachers: Perceptions of Teachers at Three Career Stages (2003)

  Paper from a follow-up study to “Principal Behaviors that Encourage Teachers to Stay in the Profession: Perceptions of Teachers in Their 2nd to 5th Year of Teaching”
  presented at AERA, 2003

• Accelerated Learning Formats in Teacher Education Programs (2006)

  Since A Nation at Risk attacked our schools’ unsatisfactory performance in 1983, educators have been scrambling to find a formula for improvement. They have tried a vast array of programs and innovations, mostly with disappointing results. Schools desperately need to change, yet many teachers are resistant to change. Have you ever asked them why? Paper presented at the University of London, 2006.