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Diversity Matters: How Colorado is Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Educator Workforce

REL Central's Teacher Diversity in Colorado partnership, which includes representatives from the Colorado Department of Education and Colorado Department of Higher Education's, has been working together to build a more diverse educator workforce across the state. Working with REL Central, the partnership has developed a range of resources and supports, from webinars to collaborative data collection activities, to help the state, human resources staff, and district and school leaders better un...
Date published:
Jun 19, 2024
report Impact Study

The Effect of School Report Card Design on Usability, Understanding, and Satisfaction

Education policymakers view transparency and accountability as critical to the success of schools. To support these goals, the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) has developed an online school report card for communicating information about the characteristics and performance of schools. To support OSSE's interest in making report cards more usable, this study assessed the effect of different designs on how easy the report cards are to use and understa...
Jul 27, 2021
Publication number:
REL 2021 101
report Descriptive Study

Examination of the Validity and Reliability of the Kansas Clinical Assessment Tool

Although national assessments for evaluating teacher candidates are available, some state education agencies and education preparation programs have developed their own assessments. These locally developed assessments are based on observations of teaching and other artifacts such as lesson plans and student assignments. However, local assessment developers often lack information about the validity and reliability of data collected with their assessments. The Council for the Accreditation of E...
Jul 21, 2021
Publication number:
REL 2021 095
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Ed Decision-Makers Find Potential Strategies in Ed Leadership Movement Report

Education leaders in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota were concerned by the numbers of school and district leaders leaving their positions. Knowing that such departures can lead to lower student achievement, higher teacher mobility, and a less positive school culture and climate (Snodgrass Rangel, 2018) as well as increased costs, they partnered with REL Central to conduct a study to investigate the movement of school and district administrative leadership. What they f...
Date published:
Aug 31, 2020
report Descriptive Study

Retention, Mobility, and Attrition among School and District Leaders in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota

Education decision makers in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota share concerns about and need more information on changes in school and district leadership (principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and assistant superintendents), including mobility (when leaders move to a different school or district within the state public school system) and attrition (when leaders stop serving in a leadership position in the state public school system). In collaboration with educators in those s...
Aug 01, 2020
Publication number:
REL 2020-033
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An Approach to Using Student and Teacher Data to Understand and Predict Teacher Shortages

Addressing teacher shortages has been a persistent concern among leaders in schools, districts, state education agencies, and the federal government. This report describes an approach to identifying patterns of teacher shortages that was collaboratively developed by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Regional Educational Laboratory Central. The approach is implemented using widely available software. It can be adopted or adapted by education agencies that wi...
Jan 01, 2020
report Descriptive Study

Teacher retention, mobility, and attrition in Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota

This study is designed to provide a better understanding of the dynamic and geographic character of the teacher labor market, including factors related to mobility and attrition, in rural and nonrural settings in four REL Central region states--Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota. State and district administrators may use findings to identify needs for recruitment and retention, target workforce improvement strategies, inform progress toward state and district teacher-equity goals,...
Jan 01, 2019
report Descriptive Study

Factors related to teacher mobility and attrition in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota

This report describes teacher and school characteristics related to teacher movement within and out of public school systems in Colorado, Missouri, and South Dakota. Stakeholders in each of these states expressed interest in better understanding teacher mobility and attrition and related factors. The authors used administrative data provided by state education agencies to examine the characteristics related to the likelihood that teachers would move to different schools or leave state public ...
Jan 01, 2019
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Considerations for Using Data to Understand Administrator Retention, Mobility, and Attrition (Training 2)

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. MT Location: Virtual training session Description: REL Central will provide two virtual trainings focused on using state education agency data to understand educator retention, mobility and attrition. The second training will be held with leadership and staff in state education agencies (SEAs) to enhance their knowledge of methods and findings from research on administrator retention, mobility, and attrition; and to review existing SEA data for examining adminis...
Oct 22, 2018
resource Training Material

Considerations for Using State Education Agency Data to Understand Teacher Retention, Mobility, and Attrition (Training 1)

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. MT Location: Virtual training session Description: REL Central will provide two virtual trainings focused on using state education agency data to understand educator retention, mobility and attrition. The first trainings will enhance the capacity of leadership and staff in state education agencies (SEAs) to use data to understand teacher retention, mobility, and attrition. This session has four objectives: (1) to demonstrate how SEA data have been used to addres...
Sep 25, 2018
report Descriptive Study

Understanding field experiences in traditional teacher preparation programs in Missouri

The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of field experiences in traditional teacher preparation programs completed by first-year teachers in Missouri and how experiences vary by teaching certificate type. This descriptive study is based on data from a survey administered in early 2015 to first-year teachers in Missouri public schools who completed traditional teacher preparation programs. Findings show that first-year teachers had field experiences that varied substantia...
Jan 01, 2016
report Descriptive Study

Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Preparation Programs in Seven States

The purpose of this study was to describe how states in the REL Central Region (Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming) evaluate teacher preparation programs and planned changes for evaluation. Publicly available documents were reviewed and interviews were conducted with state education agency representatives in late 2013. Findings show that all Central Region states have procedures for approval and reauthorization of teacher preparation programs that fo...
Jan 01, 2014