Many exceptional educators leave the teaching profession before retirement age in search of alternate careers (Harvey, 2014), and the majority of them exit the profession because of ineffective administrations (Powell, 2016). Deruy (2016) reported that the most frequently cited reason for leaving the teaching profession is a lack of administrative support. Therefore, to encourage highly qualified educators to remain in the teaching profession, there was a need to obtain empirical evidence regarding the leadership styles, traits, and other influential factors that teachers perceived as contributions to positive morale.
The previous findings led to the following research questions for this study:
1. Why do educators leave the teaching profession before their retirement age?
2. Is there a relationship between educational leadership styles and teacher morale within their schools?
3. What factors do current educators identify as contributions or hindrances to teacher morale?

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