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Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters?

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Marjorie Wechsler,

Stephanie Levin,

Melanie Leung-Gagné,

Steve Tozer

May 23 2022
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Strong school leadership is critical for shaping productive learning environments, supporting excellence in teaching, and influencing student outcomes. But how can leaders strengthen their skills and knowledge to most effectively achieve these effects? Two decades of scholarship shed light on the elements of high-quality principal preparation programs and professional development associated with positive outcomes, as well as research and policy implications for a holistic approach to principal advancement and support.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
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Teacher Salaries: A Key Factor in Recruitment and Retention

Susan Kemper Patrick,

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Apr 14 2022
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Research illustrates the importance of teacher salaries in recruiting and retaining an effective and diverse teaching workforce. As teacher shortages continue to be a challenge for districts around the country, a state-by-state analysis provides policymakers and others with a valuable tool for understanding teacher salaries, including how their state’s compensation metrics compare to those of other states.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Equitable Resources and Access
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Understanding Teacher Compensation: A State-by-State Analysis

Desiree Carver-Thomas,

Susan Kemper Patrick

Apr 14 2022
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Wage indicators for public school teachers—such as average annual starting salary, average annual starting salary adjusted for cost-of-living, and average weekly wage competitiveness—can help contextualize how compensation aids efforts to attract and retain a strong and diverse teacher workforce across a state. In this brief, maps and tables show these three teacher wage indicators for each state and how they compare to national averages.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Newsletter: April 2022

Apr 07 2022
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In this issue of the Reimagining College Access Newsletter: an upcoming RCA publication, the use of k–12 performance assessments to inform college advising and placement, and recommendations for advancing equity in college admission.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
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Preparing Wisconsin Teachers

Steve Wojcikiewicz

Mar 04 2022
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Policies that affect teachers play a vital role in creating equitable student access to deep and comprehensive learning experiences. In Wisconsin, several key policy strategies have been identified to improve and advance the preparation of a stable, diverse, well-qualified, and equitably distributed teacher workforce across the state to support all students’ learning and development.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Deeper Learning
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The Federal Role in Tackling Teacher Shortages

Michael A. DiNapoli Jr.

Feb 28 2022
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One significant contributor to longstanding teacher shortages, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, has been an underinvestment in the teacher pipeline. Fortunately, federal spending packages currently under consideration contain funding that has the potential to help effectively address the school staffing crisis. Proposed funding would support high-quality and affordable educator preparation, an important tool for improving retention.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality
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Teacher Shortages Take Center Stage

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Feb 09 2022
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The pandemic has exacerbated teacher workforce issues that have persisted for at least a decade. Because of these long-standing conditions, even small changes in teacher supply and demand during the pandemic have resulted in serious disruption for schools already struggling to fill teacher vacancies. Research points to ways districts and states can address the immediate crisis and build for the future.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
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Teacher Shortages During the Pandemic: How California Districts Are Responding

Desiree Carver-Thomas,

Dion Burns,

Melanie Leung-Gagné,

Naomi Ondrasek

Jan 26 2022
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Around the country, severe teacher shortages worsened by the pandemic have put greater pressure on teachers and administrators to scramble to cover positions. LPI researchers surveyed and spoke with districts across California to reveal the problems they face, explore the drastic measures they are taking to mitigate shortages, and offer state and federal policies address this issue.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, COVID-19
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Educator Learning to Enact the Science of Learning and Development

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Lisa Flook,

Abby Schachner,

Steve Wojcikiewicz,

Pamela Cantor,

David Osher

Jan 24 2022
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Advances in neuroscience, developmental, and learning sciences shed light on the ways that teaching practice must transform to support the whole child and cognitively complex learning. How can educators be supported to make these shifts? Research sheds light on the content educators need to learn about children’s learning and development, as well as effective strategies to support educator learning and capacity.

Topics Educator Quality, Deeper Learning, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Educator Supply, Demand, and Quality in North Carolina

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Kevin C. Bastian,

Barnett Berry,

Desiree Carver-Thomas,

Tara Kini,

Stephanie Levin,

G. Williamson McDiarmid

Jan 14 2022
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In Leandro v. the State of North Carolina, the Supreme Court of North Carolina found that children have a right to high-quality educators. However, access to a supply of qualified teachers and administrators is increasingly limited and inequitably distributed across the state. Expanding high-quality teacher pipelines and training, updating preparation and professional development, and other strategies could help strengthen North Carolina’s teacher and principal workforce.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention

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Improving Education the New Mexico Way: An Evidence-Based Approach

Dec 01 2020

In New Mexico, children and young people who face barriers to school success from poverty and marginalization are the norm, not the exception. A year-long study from LPI is designed to provide New Mexico policymakers, stakeholders, leaders, and other interested parties a research perspective on the challenges facing education in the state and to identify evidence-based policies that could build a high-quality, equitable system.

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Sustainable Strategies for Funding Teacher Residencies: Lessons From California

Nov 12 2020

High-quality teacher residencies have the potential to address workforce challenges, including teacher shortages, underprepared educators, and, when adequately funded, workforce diversity. In 2018-19, California provided seed funding to jump-start or scale such programs. Recognizing that state funding may not always be reliable, programs are also working toward greater financial sustainability. This report examines the current state of teacher residencies in California and strategies these programs use to sustain funding, particularly in the wake of COVID-19.

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Elementary School Principals' Professional Learning: Current Status and Future Needs

Oct 27 2020

Research has found that high-quality professional learning opportunities for principals can build leadership capacity. This study reports on findings from a survey of elementary school principals on access to high-quality professional learning. The survey showed that, while most had access to professional development, far fewer were able to participate in authentic learning opportunities addressing deeper learning, student well-being, and equity.

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