Volume 4, Issue 3 (2023) Nourishing Purpose: Understanding Teacher Retention and Fostering Educators’ Sense of Mission
Welcome to volume 4, issue 3 of the Journal of Advancing Education Practice (JAEP).
The Fall 2023 issue theme for the Journal of Advancing Education Practice (JAEP) is Nourishing Purpose: Understanding Teacher Retention and Fostering Educators’ Sense of Mission. The theme of the Fall issue emerges from the need to study and understand retention decisions of K-12 and Higher Education instructors. Expanding knowledge of the body politic of teachers and their retention decisions may be critical to ensuring continuity of pedagogical practitioners in K-12 and Higher Education classrooms.
Research Articles
Attending to Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Agency: Lessons from a Graduate Course on Inquiry and Advocacy
Leslie Duhaylongsod, Megin Charner-Laird, and Francesca Pomerantz
The Experiences of Southeastern Massachusetts K-12 Teachers and Factors that Influenced Retention During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Cheryl Hebert, Dawn H. Mackiewicz, Tiffany Jadotte, and Kristin L. Wakefield
Clinical Opportunities for Special Education Teacher Candidates: Developing Professional Identities that Endure Beyond Candidacy
Christine M. Davila
Opinions from the Field
The Etiology of Nurse Educator Shortages: Replenishing and Flourishing the Profession
kara R. Delafosse
Beyond Teaching: The Self-Fulfillment of Creating a Positive and Safe Learning Environment for Children Exposed to ACEs
Tessa J. Davis
Student Incivility and Poor Academic Performance: A Threat for Faculty Obtaining Tenure and Promotion
kara R. Delafosse
Reflection Paper
“I’m Staying and You’re Gonna Love Me”: Finding Authentic Freedom & Fostering Belonging as Black Female Early Faculty
Roszina D. Scott and Tinotenda Mupambo
