Topic: Strengthening the Teacher Workforce

This resource provides policy makers with guidance on writing policies that promote educational equity through effective teachers. It provides an overview of pertinent topics while highlighting teacher recruitment and retention....

This resource provides a series of briefs that discuss leverage points to ensure that students with disabilities have strong, committed, and enduring teachers....

This synthesis paper provides empirical data on the recruitment and retention of teachers from around the world. It provides insights into the push/pull factors that drive teacher decisions to remain in the education profession....

This study brief seeks to determine if there is a relationship between Connecticut’s Teacher Education and Mentoring Program and district-and state-wide teacher retention. The research highlights Connecticut’s efforts to retain teachers, findings, and implications....

This brief offers strategies for adapting educator evaluation and support system policies and practices to support virtual learning....

The Alabama Coaching Framework turns superintendent, Dr. Eric Mackey’s vision to provide innovative support to teachers into a reality. The framework sets the standard for how coaches in any content area conduct their work in Alabama. This evidence-based framework...

Teacher evaluations are essential to helping states, districts, and schools maintain an effective teacher workforce. This policy brief describes how states work to develop effective teacher evaluation systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Title II, Part A....

This study, by the Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, highlights the issues around recruiting and retaining effective teachers in Oklahoma’s rural school districts. The paper seeks to identify teacher mobility patterns and community factors as well as indicators of effective...

This brief describes challenges new teachers encounter, specifically highlighting challenges faced by new teachers in rural school districts. Mentoring and induction programs are identified as one strategy for improving new teacher development and retention. However, the authors suggest that...

This document is part of a snapshot series developed by the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders. This snapshot suggests that improving access to high quality educators for disadvantaged students in low performing school districts will aid in closing...