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This program, aimed towards novice special education teachers, provides these teachers with day-long training sessions and ongoing year-long virtual and face-to-face professional development.

Iowa's Teacher Leadership and Compensation (TLC) System promotes retention by rewarding effective teachers with leadership opportunities and higher pay. The TLC system incentivizes educators to collaborate within their school settings and districtwide.

This toolkit, developed by the Learning Policy Institute, provides resources to address teacher shortages including resources related to teaching conditions, supportive leadership, and collaboration.

This paper reviews an extensive body of research on teacher recruitment and retention, and identifies five major factors that influence teachers’ decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the teaching. One of the factors discussed is working conditions, including school leadership, professional collaboration and shared decision-making, accountability systems, and resources for teaching and learning.

Florida's educator certification renewal requirements mandate that at least one credit hour of the six credit hours required to renew certification focuses on teaching students with disabilities.

CEEDAR’s interactive state policy map provides information about state policies that support the preparation and development of teachers and leaders in meeting the needs of students with disabilities. Each state policy profile includes information about teacher and leader standards, preparation, certification and licensure, induction, and professional development standards.

This webpage describes the requirements, development routes, and other policy considerations for Minnesota's tiered licensure system. The model ranges from a one-year provisional license (Tier 1) to a five-year comprehensive license (Tier 4).

This module, from the Indiana Department of Education’s Office of Innovation, provides guidance to districts looking to develop strong mentorship processes for new teachers.

The Colorado Plan Into Action Grant supports efforts to recruit and retain effective educators by providing $2 million in funding to 17 diverse collaborative projects throughout the state.

This program aims to reduce educator turnover by offering financial rewards to teachers and principals for their impact on student achievement as measured through the New Mexico Teacher Evaluation System (NMTEACH). Teachers in low-performing schools and areas with critical shortages are prioritized in this program.