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Due to this importance, maintaining teaching-staff morale should be a key focus of administrators and teachers. The professional culture of a school is one area that can be addressed when looking to improve morale. As well, administrators can focus on concerns related to accountability and visibly support teachers in order to improve morale.  \nTeacher morale is an issue that affects every stakeholder in education (Heick, 2020) . Teachers with low morale feel stressed, are not satisfied with their job, develop burnout, and are emotionally exhausted (Will, 2021) . The stress and exhaustion that comes from their workplace comes home with these teachers and affects their personal lives, as well. When teachers have low morale, they do not do their job to the best of their abilities and the quality of students’education is impacted. The professional culture of a school, teacher accountability concerns, and a lack of support from schools administrators are three issues that negatively influence teacher morale (Bradford & Braaten, 2018) . There are many solutions to counteract these problems affecting teacher morale. Professional culture is positively influenced by a shared vision and set of goals , and an emphasis on professional development. Accountability concerns can be addressed by using accountability practices focused on improvement, making teachers accountable to their peers, and a focus on professional development. Support from administrators is improved by public recognition of teacher achievements, including teachers indecision making, and showing visible leadership within the school.  \nIssues Affecting Teacher Morale  \nA strong professional culture in a school is something that can help teachers to overcome difficult situations that may arise in their job (Erichsen & Reynolds, 2020) . A healthy school culture can be characterized as one in which staff and students are positive in their ability to set and achieve ambitious goals (Zahed-Babelan et al. , 2019) . The staff in healthy cultures collaborate, trust one another, and share a vision of what success looks like; and the school hasan atmosphere of lifelong learning. A poor professional culture is one that leads to teachers becoming demoralized. When teachers do not believe that those around them are doing their best to improve the education they provide to students, when they do not respect their colleagues, and when they do not agree with what others see as being important, poor cultures will develop (Erichsen & Reynolds, 2020) . Schools with poor cultures are often ones that have high teacher turnover rates (Noddings, 2014) . When turnover rates are high, the culture often continues to suffer when new, less experienced teachers take the place of the more experienced ones. This often leads to a cycle of turnover that must be ended in order to correct the root cause of the culture issues. A poor professional culture can be extremely hard to fix and can drive the best teachers out of the occupation.  \nA second problem affecting teacher morale is the perception of unnecessary teacher accountability practices. Although these practices are intended to improve the level of education provided by schools, they are too often demoralizing for teachers who do not see them as valuable or accurate (Bosso, 2017) . Many educators do not view these practices as useful to their classroom instruction and instead see them as data used by educational administrators for their own purposes (Bradford & Braaten, 2018) . Some view teacher evaluations as being unfair  \nor biased due to their often subjective nature (Morris et al. , 2020) . Teachers who work in districts with greater accountability practices often see their working conditions more negatively than those who work in ones that enact less stringent accountability measures (Erichsen & Reynol","cbCaimn8HvNsdZdQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimn8HvNsdZdQ","pdf",215899,"English","# Abstract\n# Issues Affecting Teacher Morale\n# Developing Professional Culture","[{\"question\":\"Why is teacher morale important for schools?\",\"answer\":\"High teacher morale supports the overall well-being of the school. Low morale can also lead to stress, burnout, and emotionally exhausted teachers, which reduces instructional quality and affects students’ education.\"},{\"question\":\"Which issues negatively influence teacher morale?\",\"answer\":\"The text highlights three main issues: problems in professional culture, concerns related to teacher accountability, and a lack of support from administrators and leaders in schools.\"},{\"question\":\"How can schools improve teacher morale through professional culture?\",\"answer\":\"Schools can build morale by creating a shared professional vision and goals, engaging staff in whole-school professional learning, strengthening trust among staff, and supporting educators through visible leadership and appropriate recognition.\"}]","Increasing Teacher Morale - Abstract | PDF",1792080291,13]