Identifying Evidence-Based Practices for Recruiting, Training, and Retaining a Diverse Educator Workforce

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This infographic links to a set of materials that summarize the research on specific strategies for developing a diverse educator workforce, including designing grow-your-own teacher programs and removing potential barriers for teacher candidates of color.

Educator Recruitment and Retention Evidence Blast

This infographic lists evidence-based resources to help practitioners and policymakers make important decisions as they recruit, train, and retain educators and try to recruit teachers who reflect the diversity of their student populations.

Teacher Turnover and Suggestions for Improving Retention

This infographic provides a snapshot of teacher turnover across four Northwestern states and highlights potential considerations for education leaders and policymakers to address teacher shortages and turnover.

Out-of-field Teaching among Beginning Teachers Trained and Teaching in Rhode Island

Partnership: Teacher Preparation Research Alliance

This infographic describes the rates of out-of-field teaching among beginning teachers in Rhode Island. The infographic examines whether there are differences in the rates of out-of-field teaching across low- and high-need schools. It provides information that may help state, district, and preparation program staff in Rhode Island understand out-of-field teaching in the state.

Understanding the Teacher Pipeline for Indiana's K-12 Public Schools

Partnership: Midwest Alliance to Improve Teacher Preparation

This report examines the characteristics and outcomes of undergraduate education students in Indiana public colleges and universities from 2010/11 to 2012/13. The report provides information that may help states, districts, and preparation programs in the state understand and improve their recruitment of teachers. The report includes a brief, snapshot, and infographic summarizing the report's findings.

Past and Projected Trends in Teacher Demand and Supply in Michigan

Partnership: Midwest Alliance to Improve Teacher Preparation

This report draws on data from the 2013/14 to 2017/18 school years to examine trends in teacher supply and demand in Michigan and make projections for the next five years. The findings can be used to inform state and district policies to address teacher shortages. The report includes a brief, a snapshot, and an infographic summarizing the findings.

Idaho’s Educator Landscape: How Is the State’s Teacher Workforce Responding to Its Students’ Needs?

Partnership: Idaho Educator Pipeline Alliance

This report describes Idaho statewide data from the 2011/12 through 2016/17 school years on changes in student enrollment and demographics, teacher preparation, the composition of the teacher workforce, and teacher turnover. This comprehensive picture is intended to inform state and local efforts to support teacher recruitment, development, and retention.

Visualizing Washington’s Teacher Workforce: Understanding the Trends Impacting Teacher Recruitment and Retention

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This tool draws on publicly available data to visualize the challenges that school districts in Washington are facing as they strive to recruit, train, and retain a diverse and skilled teaching force. To uncover opportunities for district collaboration, the tool provides maps for exploring core issues such as teacher turnover, diversity, and salaries by geographic area in the state.

Indicators of Successful Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Oklahoma Rural School Districts

This report identifies factors linked to successful recruitment and retention of teachers in Oklahoma rural school districts and explores patterns of teacher job mobility in these districts from the 2005/06 to 2014/15 school years. The report provides guidance on potential strategies to address teaching shortages, and it includes an infographic summarizing the findings.

Projecting California Teacher Retirements over the Next Decade

This report projects California teacher retirements through the 2024/25 school year at the county level, state level, and by subject. Given geographic variation by county, the report suggests the need for careful local workforce planning. It includes a fact sheet summarizing the findings.

Identifying Evidence-Based Practices for Recruiting, Training, and Retaining a Diverse Educator Workforce

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This infographic links to a set of materials that summarize the research on specific strategies for developing a diverse educator workforce, including designing grow-your-own teacher programs and removing potential barriers for teacher candidates of color.

Educator Recruitment and Retention Evidence Blast

This infographic lists evidence-based resources to help practitioners and policymakers make important decisions as they recruit, train, and retain educators and try to recruit teachers who reflect the diversity of their student populations.

Teacher Turnover and Suggestions for Improving Retention

This infographic provides a snapshot of teacher turnover across four Northwestern states and highlights potential considerations for education leaders and policymakers to address teacher shortages and turnover.

Heartbeat of the Community: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Rural Schools

Partnership: Midwest Alliance to Improve Teacher Preparation

This webinar discusses strategies to improve teacher recruitment and retention in rural schools and districts. The webinar incorporates the perspectives of state and district leaders and current and prospective teachers. The webinar provides strategies relevant for states, districts, and teacher preparation programs.

Understanding What Influences Teacher Mobility

Partnership: Educator Pipeline Research

This webinar discusses the findings from two reports on rural teacher attrition in Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The webinar also includes insights on the findings to inform policy and discusses examples of research-based state and local programs and initiatives designed to improve teacher recruitment and retention.

Diversifying and Widening the Teacher Pipeline with Grow Your Own Programs

Partnership: Educator Pipeline Research

This webinar discusses the research on Grow Your Own preparation programs and describes two examples: the Colorado Teacher Cadet Program and the Columbia Public Schools’ EdX Intern Program.

Approaches in the Mid-Atlantic Region to Address Teacher Shortages Through Partnerships

Partnership: Training and Supporting Excellent Educators

This webinar describes four programs in the mid-Atlantic region intended to expand the pipeline of people entering the teaching profession, address teacher shortages, and increase teacher diversity. The webinar provides valuable information about innovative partnerships and lessons learned on the recruitment of new teachers.

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Rural Communities

Partnership: Rural Research Alliance

This webinar discusses strategies for recruiting and retaining educators in rural areas.

Limited Certificated Teachers in Washington: Barriers to Becoming Fully Certificated and Needed Supports

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This study focuses on the characteristics of limited certificated teachers and paraprofessionals in Washington, as well as the barriers they face and the supports they need to become fully certificated teachers.The findings have important implications for efforts to reduce teacher shortages and increase the diversity of the teacher workforce. The report includes a brief and snapshot summarizing the findings.

A Snapshot of Educator Mobility in Montana: Understanding Issues of Educator Shortages and Turnover

Partnership: Montana Education Research Alliance

This report describes educator shortages and mobility in Montana. It also discusses considerations for increasing the supply of qualified teachers and improving retention rates. It includes an infographic summarizing the findings.

Nine Strategies for Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Diverse Teachers

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This infographic describes the research literature on nine strategies for recruiting, hiring, and retaining diverse teachers.

Finding a Solution to the Dual-Language Teacher Shortage at Portland Public Schools

This blog provides a detailed description of the Portland Public Schools Dual-Language Teacher Fellows Program, designed to provide alternative licensure for dual-language educators. The blog provides guidance on a particular strategy for diversifying the teacher pipeline.

If You Want to Make a Difference, Come Here

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This blog and video give a detailed description of an approach to teacher recruitment and retention in a high-poverty rural high school in eastern Washington. The approach focuses on creating a supportive climate and systems of support. The blog and video shed light on how to recruit and retain a more diverse teacher workforce in a rural area.

Strategies for Recruiting a Diverse Teacher Workforce

Partnership: Southwest Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Research Partnership

This infographic highlights research-based recommendations for developing a teacher workforce that reflects students’ diversity. It also provides links to other resources for more information.

Indicators of Successful Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Oklahoma Rural School Districts

This report identifies factors linked to successful recruitment and retention of teachers in Oklahoma rural school districts and explores patterns of teacher job mobility in these districts from the 2005/06 to 2014/15 school years. The report provides guidance on potential strategies to address teaching shortages, and it includes an infographic summarizing the findings.

Human Resources Practices for Recruiting, Selecting, and Retaining Teachers of Color

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This report describes the literature on 12 practices associated with attracting, hiring, and retaining teachers of color.

An Approach to Using Student and Teacher Data to Understand and Predict Teacher Shortages

Partnership: Missouri Equity Research Partnership

This report describes the development of a tool used in Missouri to predict teacher shortages using widely available software. The report provides information to help staff from states, districts, and preparation programs design a similar tool that could be used to predict teacher shortages and to inform recruitment and retention policies.

Visualizing Washington’s Teacher Workforce: Understanding the Trends Impacting Teacher Recruitment and Retention

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This tool draws on publicly available data to visualize the challenges that school districts in Washington are facing as they strive to recruit, train, and retain a diverse and skilled teaching force. To uncover opportunities for district collaboration, the tool provides maps for exploring core issues such as teacher turnover, diversity, and salaries by geographic area in the state.

Identifying Evidence-Based Practices for Recruiting, Training, and Retaining a Diverse Educator Workforce

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This infographic links to a set of materials that summarize the research on specific strategies for developing a diverse educator workforce, including designing grow-your-own teacher programs and removing potential barriers for teacher candidates of color.

Out-of-field Teaching among Beginning Teachers Trained and Teaching in Rhode Island

Partnership: Teacher Preparation Research Alliance

This infographic describes the rates of out-of-field teaching among beginning teachers in Rhode Island. The infographic examines whether there are differences in the rates of out-of-field teaching across low- and high-need schools. It provides information that may help state, district, and preparation program staff in Rhode Island understand out-of-field teaching in the state.

Understanding the Teacher Pipeline for Indiana's K-12 Public Schools

Partnership: Midwest Alliance to Improve Teacher Preparation

This report examines the characteristics and outcomes of undergraduate education students in Indiana public colleges and universities from 2010/11 to 2012/13. The report provides information that may help states, districts, and preparation programs in the state understand and improve their recruitment of teachers. The report includes a brief, snapshot, and infographic summarizing the report's findings.

Projecting California Teacher Retirements over the Next Decade

This report projects California teacher retirements through the 2024/25 school year at the county level, state level, and by subject. Given geographic variation by county, the report suggests the need for careful local workforce planning. It includes a fact sheet summarizing the findings.

Identifying Evidence-Based Practices for Recruiting, Training, and Retaining a Diverse Educator Workforce

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This infographic links to a set of materials that summarize the research on specific strategies for developing a diverse educator workforce, including designing grow-your-own teacher programs and removing potential barriers for teacher candidates of color.

Heartbeat of the Community: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Rural Schools

Partnership: Midwest Alliance to Improve Teacher Preparation

This webinar discusses strategies to improve teacher recruitment and retention in rural schools and districts. The webinar incorporates the perspectives of state and district leaders and current and prospective teachers. The webinar provides strategies relevant for states, districts, and teacher preparation programs.

Diversifying and Widening the Teacher Pipeline with Grow Your Own Programs

Partnership: Educator Pipeline Research

This webinar discusses the research on Grow Your Own preparation programs and describes two examples: the Colorado Teacher Cadet Program and the Columbia Public Schools’ EdX Intern Program.

Approaches in the Mid-Atlantic Region to Address Teacher Shortages Through Partnerships

Partnership: Training and Supporting Excellent Educators

This webinar describes four programs in the mid-Atlantic region intended to expand the pipeline of people entering the teaching profession, address teacher shortages, and increase teacher diversity. The webinar provides valuable information about innovative partnerships and lessons learned on the recruitment of new teachers.

Limited Certificated Teachers in Washington: Barriers to Becoming Fully Certificated and Needed Supports

Partnership: Washington State Vibrant Teaching Force Alliance

This study focuses on the characteristics of limited certificated teachers and paraprofessionals in Washington, as well as the barriers they face and the supports they need to become fully certificated teachers. The findings have important implications for efforts to reduce teacher shortages and increase the diversity of the teacher workforce. The report includes a brief and snapshot summarizing the findings.

A Snapshot of Educator Mobility in Montana: Understanding Issues of Educator Shortages and Turnover

Partnership: Montana Education Research Alliance

This report describes educator shortages and mobility in Montana. It also discusses considerations for increasing the supply of qualified teachers and improving retention rates. It includes an infographic summarizing the findings.

Strategies for Recruiting a Diverse Teacher Workforce

Partnership: Southwest Teacher Preparation and Professional Development Research Partnership

This infographic highlights research-based recommendations for developing a teacher workforce that reflects students’ diversity. It also provides links to other resources for more information.

An Approach to Using Student and Teacher Data to Understand and Predict Teacher Shortages

Partnership: Missouri Equity Research Partnership

This report describes the development of a tool used in Missouri to predict teacher shortages using widely available software. The report provides information to help staff from states, districts, and preparation programs design a similar tool that could be used to predict teacher shortages and to inform recruitment and retention policies.