Topic: Strengthening the Teacher Workforce

This resource identifies sample training methods, tools, and solutions that can help increase participant engagement in professional learning experiences aligned to Region 5 Comprehensive Center’s Adult Learning Framework....

This brief offers five strategies for using federal funding to address pandemic-related staffing needs while avoiding the funding cliff that can exist when funds run out....

This R7CC brief highlights ways that states, districts, and Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) can collaborate during recovery from COVID-19 to strengthen systems and relationships across the educator workforce and support student learning.   Organization Region 7 Comprehensive Center...

The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk has listed 10 key policies, rooted evidence-based practices and high-quality research, that will help all students learn....

This 2019 paper from The Learning Accelerator summarizes research and identifies six quality drivers for online learning tools for teachers: platform quality, rigorous content focus, active learning, mastery learning, connection, and personalization....

This document presents three principles for the design of high-quality professional learning aligned to student standards: Professional learning must be “content-focused,” “teacher- and student-centered,” and “instructionally relevant and actionable.” Achieve the Core developed the principles based on a review...

This study analyzes data from the New York City Department of Education to study the effects of principal transitions on school outcomes, including student progress and performance, teacher turnover, and school environment. This piece includes policy implications for districts...

This analysis of data from a large school district in North Carolina finds that teachers experience “small positive increases” in their observation scores when they have the same race or gender as their classroom observers....

This study analyzes teachers’ perceptions of feedback provided through their districts’ evaluation system. Results find that teachers’ responses to feedback relate to their perceptions of the usefulness and accuracy of the feedback, the credibility of the evaluator, and the...

This brief provides findings from a study of educator evaluation implementation in Chicago Public Schools focusing on educator perceptions of feedback. The “Implications” section offers important considerations for evaluators and the states and districts that support them....