Principal of a local public school.

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1. Research Question: How does the implementation of a flexible scheduling program, offering options for compressed workweeks or telecommuting for non-instructional tasks, impact the reported levels of work-life balance among new teaching staff within their first two years at our school?

2. Method: I would choose a quasi-experimental method. This approach involves implementing the flexible scheduling program for one group of new teachers (the intervention group) while another group of new teachers hired around the same time would continue with the standard scheduling (the comparison group). We would then compare the reported levels of work-life balance between these two groups after a set period (e.g., one academic year). This method is quasi-experimental because, as the principal of a functioning school, I cannot randomly assign new hires to different scheduling conditions. The groups are naturally occurring.