There Has to Be a Better Way: Lessons from Former Urban Teachers

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There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the teachers themselves. Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with former teachers, the authors identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why teachers so often willingly leave the classroom.  Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword Introduction: Walking in Through the Out Door: Professional Trajectories of Urban Teachers PART I: The Dynamics of Teacher Attrition 1          Push and Pull in Career Development PART II: Structural Factors in Teacher Attrition 2          The Struggle is Real: Administrators, Teachers, and The System 3          Wading Through the Waters: Exhaustion, Stress, and Disillusionment with Teaching 4          Where Has All the Job Security Gone? PART III: The Personal and the Professional in Teacher Attrition 5          You Don't Fit Here: Teachers of Color Coping with Racial Microaggressions in Schools 6          Negotiating Gendered and Cultural Expectations on a Teacher's Salary: The Mediating Role of Identity 7          I Just Feel So Guilty: The Role of Emotions in Leaving PART IV: Addressing Teacher Attrition 8          Closing the Revolving Door: Teacher Leavers' Final Lesson for the Profession Acknowledgments Bibliography Index