Educator Support and Sustainability: Addressing Stress and Coping Among an Increasingly Heterogeneous P-20 Educator Workforce (Research on Stress and Coping in Education)

Educator Support and Sustainability brings together groundbreaking research on one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary education: how an increasingly diverse P-20 educator workforce experiences, navigates, and survives stress.As schools and universities evolve demographically, politically, and structurally, the emotional and psychological demands placed on educators-especially those from racially and culturally minoritized backgrounds-have never been more complex. This book illuminates the lived realities of teachers, leaders, psychologists, and faculty whose identities shape both their professional burdens and their coping strategies. Together, these chapters offer an unflinching look at the systemic forces shaping educator well-being-and the innovative, culturally grounded strategies educators use to persist.Educator Support and Sustainability is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners committed to building educational environments where all ed