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Episode: Want to show teachers appreciation? This top school gives them more freedom
Description: Nationally, most teachers report feeling stressed and overwhelmed at work, according to a Pew Research Center survey of teachers last fall. Waning job satisfaction over the last two decades has accompanied a decline in teachers’ sense of autonomy in the classroom, according to a recent study out of Brown University and the University at Albany.
At Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Henderson, administrators allow their staff high levels of classroom creativity—and it works.
“There is a lot of our own individual input allowed in doing the activities that we want to do in the classroom,” said Vanessa Stevenson, a middle school s...