Tanya Jones slumped in her office chair and rubbed her forehead, pouring over the data. As a middle school principal in North Carolina, she, like all principals, received the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions (NCTWC) survey results, which provided anonymous survey data from teachers regarding important areas such as school leadership,
teacher leadership, use of time, professional development, and community engagement (NCTWC, n.d.). The biennial survey was administered during an alreadybusy 4-week window in the spring, and the results came in about a month later.
For now, at least, her world stopped.