Event: EdPolicyForward: The Long Goodbye? Teacher and Principal Organizational Conditions, Wellbeing, and Turnover
Date: Nov 13, 2025
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Location: Thompson Hall 2007/2008, Fairfax Campus
Description:
EdPolicyForward: the Center for Education Policy at George Mason University will hold its third research workshop of the Fall 2025 semester with Dr. Laura Rogers. Dr. Rogers is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at The University of Virginia. She conducts research on how policies and organizational conditions shape the career outcomes of K-12 district leaders, principals, and teachers. Trained in both quantitative and qualitative methods, she leverages multiple data sources and mixed/multi-method designs to study school districts as systems. The title of Dr. Rogers talk is The Long Goodbye? Teacher and Principal Organizational Conditions, Wellbeing, and Turnover.
Dr. Rogers workshop will meet IN-PERSON on Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 11:00am-12:30pm ET in Thompson Hall 2007/2008 on the GMU Fairfax Campus. If you plan to attend, please email (kblackb3@gmu.edu) to confirm.
Summary of the presentation:
Concern about educator wellbeing as a policy issue has grown since the pandemic. In this analysis, we administered a one-time survey to principals and teachers in Utah about their wellbeing during the pandemic. We examine the relationship between wellbeing and individual, school, and district characteristics, including both traditional measures and textual analysis of qualitative free-response. We then connect the survey data to longitudinal state administrative data to understand the short- and long-term career trajectories of teachers at different wellbeing profiles over time. (Co-authors on this paper: David S. Woo and Lydia Gandy-Fastovich)
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