Leaders Supporting Teachers

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5 Ways Teachers Want Administrators to Support Them

Attention school administrators: Teachers think you could be creating a better work environment—and they have suggestions for how to do it.

Teachers want leaders to trust them with autonomy in the classroom. They want time to collaborate with colleagues and take care of themselves. And they want support in handling student misbehavior, teachers said in a recent survey from the EdWeek Research Center.

In short, wrote one of the respondents, “teachers need to know that administrators have their back.”

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