Reports

This brief and accompanying report offers recommendations for how state agencies can measure and promote social and emotional learning in their accountability and continuous improvement plans.

This report outlines strategies for extending the reach of high-performing teachers to more children while providing those teachers with multiple avenues for advancing their achievement and impact within teaching.

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 profession. Induction and support for new teachers is discussed as a strategy to attract and retain teachers.

This policy analysis report from the CEEDAR Center investigates the extent to which states have standards for teachers and school leaders and the extent to which these standards address what teachers and leaders need to know to effectively educate students with disabilities and other diverse learners. The report includes a section on certification policies for teachers generally, for special educators in particular, and for school leaders.

This report summarizes research on the effect of monetary incentives on teacher recruitment and retention and how compensation-based incentives can be used to address both subject-level shortages and school-level shortages.

This report describes promising approaches to develop a “portfolio” of financial incentives, including performance bonuses, loan repayment, scholarship programs, and performance-based incentives, to boost recruitment and retention in hard-to-staff schools and subject areas.

This report presents data demonstrating teacher shortage needs and potential opportunities to strengthen workforce development through Grow Your Own programs. The report includes mini case studies of statewide implementation and sustainability of Grow Your Own programs in Washington state and a toolkit of recommended strategies for growing and sustaining programs.