Independent School Faculty Morale Resource Center

The range and size of demands we place on faculty have grown dramatically in recent years—protecting student mental health, quickly getting up to speed on virtual teaching and other technologies, and facilitating civil discourse among students and parents at a time of rising division. Schools’ current investments to improve morale, such as expanding wellness programs and increasing faculty appreciation efforts, have not worked.

But low faculty morale—even during challenging times—isn’t inevitable. EAB has uncovered outlier organizations across industries that dramatically improved employee morale despite challenging circumstances. Their success was not defined by a one-size-fits-all or a predetermined set of ideas for morale. Instead, their success shared one common ingredient: all outlier organizations diagnosed the evolving needs of employees and co-developed and adjusted solutions in collaboration with employees.

To help schools replicate this success, EAB has distilled this process into the faculty morale momentum loop.