Recruitment and Retention

Teachers on the Move: A Look at Teacher Interstate Mobility Policy and Practice

The National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) partnered with the Troops-to-Teachers Program and the Maryland State Department of Education to commission a study of teacher interstate mobility.

Systems That Last: Great Teachers and Leaders for America's Schools

The primary goals of the conference were to demonstrate the impact the comprehensive center system of technical assistance and dissemination has had on the nation and to build the capacity of participants to make informed and strategic decisions about educator effectiveness from a systems perspective, especially in light of current federal and state policy developments. The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality 2012 Conference was designed to provide the most current and accurate information on research, practice, and federal foci and opportunities to address teacher and leader effectiveness and equitable distribution of teachers in schools, especially in high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff schools.

Handbook on Effective Implementation of School Improvement Grants

In 2011, the five content centers of the Comprehensive Centers Program collaborated to create this handbook that provides relevant and useful information for states and districts to use as they apply for and implement the models and strategies outlined in the 2009 School Improvement Grant program by offering succinct and practical explanations of these models and strategies, references to the underlying research, and connections to useful resources.

Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 2, Working Without a Net: How New Teachers From Three Prominent Alternate Route Programs Describe Their First Year on the Job

Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-need schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach For America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.

Identifying How Highly Effective Leaders Support Teachers

This Key Issue is a searchable document that allows a user to hone in on specific processes and/or targeted resources that support or provide evidence for strategies related to educator quality. This Key Issue specifically focuses on leadership, instructional leadership, school vision, school culture, teacher selection and assignment, human capital management, teacher evaluation, learning time, using data, and teacher empowerment.

Increasing Teacher Retention to Facilitate the Equitable Distribution of Effective Teachers

The term teacher retention refers to the ability to keep teachers on the job, thus reducing or eliminating teacher turnover. This Key Issue offers strategies to improve the retention of qualified and effective teachers in hard-to-staff schools.

Recruiting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Teachers

This Key Issue focuses on strategies for recruiting STEM teachers, especially in critical shortage areas of mathematics and science.

Teaching English Language Learners: A Complex System

This Policy-to-Practice Brief provides an overview of the different components necessary for supporting English language instruction. It focuses on the impact of these components through the preparation and recruitment of teachers of English language learners.

Recruiting Special Education Teachers

This Key Issue discusses the critical shortage of special education teachers, especially in urban and rural areas. It provides strategies for recruiting special education teachers through incentives and partnerships with institutions of higher education, attracting more people into the profession through multiple pathways, encouraging paraprofessionals to become certified teachers, retaining current special educators, and promoting cultural diversity in the field.

Enhancing Teacher Leadership

This Key Issue is a searchable document that allows a user to hone in on specific processes and/or targeted resources that support or provide evidence for strategies related to educator quality. This Key Issue specifically focuses on teacher leaders, career ladders, professional growth, distributed leadership, working conditions, teacher recruitment and teacher retention. The primary audience includes regional comprehensive center staff who support local education agencies, principals, teachers, people new to the field, and policymakers.

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