Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions

As accountability policies have proliferated and evolved in a number of organizational fields, recent scholarship sociology has paid close attention to the ways that forced tight coupling variety organizations. Fewer studies examine efforts at ceremonial conformity organizations may use buffer internal practices from institutional pressures, or how their actors might attempt engage under newer regimes. In this article, we school principals enact state-mandated teacher evaluation with teachers. To manage teachers' stress caused by evaluations, find often allow, times enable, teachers put on “dog pony show” during formal performance aligns district instructional but deviates common everyday practices. We argue is novel form call instantiated recoupling.