Teacher Assignment and Transfer

Support innovative incentives for effective teachers to transfer to disadvantaged, low-performing schools. 

Consider teacher performance when making layoff decisions. 

Deny transfers of ineffective teachers to other schools or classrooms, especially lower-tracked classrooms or underperforming schools.

Consider giving principals more input into teacher hiring and placement decisions.

Examine and possibly revise local teacher dismissal policies. 

Examine and possibly revise local teacher transfer policies. 

Provide preparation for school leaders on equitable assignment and school scheduling practices. 

Provide principal professional development on school scheduling and teacher assignment. 

Determine which students have been repeatedly assigned a new teacher; reassign those teachers or students. 

Avoid assigning new teachers to low-performing students or lower tracked classrooms.