Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 58 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Katina Pollock, Fei Wang, Julia Mahfouz

Positive leadership: animating purpose, presence, passion and play for flourishing in schools

Sabre Cherkowski, Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Keith Walker

The purpose of this multiyear research study is to examine leadership in K-12 schools using a positive organizational perspective to understand how to foster, support and…

School principals' workplace well-being: a multination examination of the role of their job resources and job demands

Rebecca J. Collie, Helena Granziera, Andrew J. Martin

The aim of this study was to examine the extent to which several workplace factors are implicated in school principals' well-being. Two job resources (i.e. participatory climate…

The self-care practices of school principals

Joshua Ray, John Pijanowski, Kara Lasater

The purpose of this study was to explore the well-being of school principals and the job-embedded demands responsible for challenging their adoption of healthy self-care practices.

Conceptualizing a pedagogy of wellness for rural district leadership: leading, healing and leading self-healing

Antoinette M. Ryan

This article considers the integration of aspects of mindfulness, social and emotional learning (SEL) and leadership wellness practice as a structure for a pedagogy of wellness in…

“God is my doctor”: mindfulness meditation/prayer as a spiritual well-being coping strategy for Jamaican school principals to manage their work-related stress and anxiety

Annette Rosemarie Walker

This article explores Jamaican secondary school principals' use of mindfulness meditation as a spiritual well-being strategy to manage their work-related stress and anxiety.

Commentary

Mark Greenberg