Teaching and Learning Conditions

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.

This program aims to increase the number of male teachers and teachers from diverse backgrounds, particularly in low-performing schools, by recruiting diverse teacher candidates, offering loan forgiveness, establishing a cohort system for cultural and social support, and assisting with job placement.

This grant supports the Tennessee Department of Education's effort to increase the diversity of the educator workforce by providing awards to school districts to create Grow Your Own programs aimed at recruiting and preparing minority teachers.

This brief presents three state policy priorities with guiding questions and implementation strategies for attracting and retaining quality teachers. One policy priority focuses on attracting teachers from diverse backgrounds.

This professional learning module is offered by the IRIS Center to support school administrators and related personnel who aim to support the retention of special educators. This module offers various exemplars and resources, concluding with an end-of-module assessment.

This program, from the New Mexico Public Education Department, aims to support in-service teachers by empowering educational leaders to establish and monitor plans to create conditions for effective teaching in New Mexico schools.

This self-assessment tool helps teachers and principals understand their stress levels during the time of COVID, leading to beneficial self-care strategies.

Supporting teachers during the COVID-19 crisis, this tool includes a self-care self-assessment with key strategies for fostering resilience and a self-care planning tool to assist educators in identifying areas of strength and growth related to self-care and developing self-care plans.