Recent Conference Presentations

2026

Pressley, T., Marshall, D. T., & Walter, H. L. (2026, April 8-12). Teacher Workload Matters: A Validated Scale for Research and School Use. [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

Pressley, T., Marshall, D. T., & Walter, H. L. (2026, April 8-12). Measuring Colleague Support: Development of a Brief Scale for Teacher Well-being [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

Marshall, D. T., Pendola, A., & Pressley, T. (2026, April 8-12). What Matters to Teachers: Alignment with Contemporary Educational Research [Paper presentation].  American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

Schoettler, N. N., Marshall, D. T., & Pressley, T. (2026, January 8-11). Teacher Experiences Across School Sectors Five Years After the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic [Paper presentation]. International School Choice and Reform Conference, Rome, Italy.

Marshall, D. T., & Pressley, T. (2026, January 8-11). The Short-Term Effectiveness of Virginia’s K-12 Cell Phone Ban [Paper presentation]. International School Choice and Reform Conference, Rome, Italy.

2025

Pressley, T., Marshall, D.T., & Walter, H. L. (2025, November 5). Measuring teacher burnout: Validation of a Brief Emotional Exhaustion Scale [Paper presentation]. Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., Nelson, K. R., & Carballo, N. (2025, November 5). Predicting Teacher Mental Health: The Influence of Demographics, Support, and Policy Contexts [Paper presentation]. Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Pressley, T., Marshall, D.T., Walter, H. L., & *Ganey, K. (2025, April 23-27). Why Teachers Leave and What Can Be Done to Better Support Them to Stay. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Marshall, D. T., Pendola, A., & Pressley, T. (2025, April 23-27) Learning from Outliers: Understanding Post-Pandemic Success in Resiliency Schools. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

2024

Pendola, A., Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., Sagar, J., & Smith-Murphy-K. (2024, November 20-23). Outlier resiliency schools: Leadership in high-challenged schools with exceptional learning recovery [Paper presentation]. University Council for Educational Administration Convention, Los Angeles, California, United States.

Marshall, D. T., Pendola, A., Pressley, T., & Odeniyi, O. (2024, November 7-9). Post-pandemic academic resilience in rural Alabama high schools [Paper presentation]. Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

Pendola, A., Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., & Trammell, D. L. (2024, April 11-14). Outlier resiliency schools: Identifying high-challenge schools with exceptional learning recovery. [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., Shannon, D. M., Neugebauer, N. M., & Odeniyi, O. (2024, April 11-14) Administrative support, mental health resources, and teacher burnout. [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2023

Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., & Shannon, D. M. (2023, November 8-10). The impact of mental health interventions and administrative support on teacher well-being following the COVID-19 pandemic [Poster presentation]. Mid-South Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Pensacola, Florida, United States.

Pressley, T., *Kidd, M., *Wheatley, S. (2023). “We were kept in the dark.”: Teacher perspectives on returning to learning plans. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il.

Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., Neugebauer, N. M., & Trammell, D. (2023). Elementary teacher morale and menatal health following the COVID-19 pandemic. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il.

Marshall, D. T., Neugebauer, N. M., & Pressley, T. (2023, January 13-16). Teacher morale, job satisfaction, and burnout in schools of choice following the COVID-19 pandemic. [Paper presentation]. International School Choice and Reform Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.  

2022

Marshall, D. T., Pressley, T., Love, S. M., & Shannon, D. M. (2022, October 10-11). Teacher morale and mental health following COVID-19 [Paper presentation]. Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness Annual Meeting, Asheville, North Carolina, United States. 

Pressley, T. & Ha, C. (2022, April 21-26). [Paper presentation]. Returning to Teaching During COVID-19: The Role of Administrators, Self-Efficacy, and Anxiety on Burnout. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, Ca.

Pressley, T. & Ha, C. (2022, April 21-26). [Paper presentation]. The First Month of Teaching During a Pandemic: Teacher Stress and Anxiety. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, Ca.

2021

Pressley, T. & Learn, E. (2021, February 18-19). Returning to teaching during COVID-19: An empirical study on teacher efficacy. [Paper presentation]. Eastern Educational Research Association 44th Annual meeting, Virtual.

Pressley, T., Croyle, H., & Pressley, S. (2021, February 18-19). First-year teachers teaching efficacy in Title I schools: A multi-case study. [Paper presentation]. Eastern Educational Research Association 44th Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Pressley, T. & Croyle, H. (2021, February 18-19). A comparison of Virginia preservice teachers’ efficacy and the effect of COVID-19. [Paper presentation]. Eastern Educational Research Association 44th Annual Meeting, Virtual.