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Walking Alongside the Learner: Curriculum in Yvonne’s Pre-K Classroom

Sep 29 2016
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The High-Quality Early Learning Project | In this collection of videos, pre-k teacher Yvonne Smith explains how she supports young children to be thinkers and questioners through active experiences, interdisciplinary connections, and responsiveness to children’s diverse backgrounds, interests, and abilities. For more information on the High-Quality Early Learning Project, visit highqualityearlylearning.org.

Topic Early Childhood Learning
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Understanding Teacher Shortages 2016

Sep 15 2016
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How states experience the teacher shortage depends on their unique mix of policies, conditions, and even cost of living. This interactive map provides a state-by-state look at key indicators of teacher supply and demand and the equitable distribution of teachers. States and the District of Columbia receive a teaching attractiveness rating, based on compensation, teacher turnover, working conditions, and qualifications, and a teacher equity rating, based on the distribution of uncertified and inexperienced teachers.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
Report

The Teacher Residency: An Innovative Model for Preparing Teachers

Roneeta Guha,

Maria E. Hyler,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 15 2016
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The teacher residency model holds much promise to address the issues of recruitment and retention in high-need districts and subject area shortages. This model also has the potential to support systemic change and building of the teaching profession, especially in the most challenging districts. Initial research is promising as to the impact residencies can have on increasing the diversity of the teaching force, improving retention of new teachers, and promoting gains in student learning.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
Report

Solving the Teacher Shortage: How to Attract and Retain Excellent Educators

Anne Podolsky,

Tara Kini,

Joseph Bishop,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 15 2016
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High rates of teacher turnover contribute to shortages and undermine academic progress. This report reviews an extensive body of research on teacher recruitment and retention, identifies key factors that influence decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the profession, and offers evidence-based recommendations for local, state, and federal policymakers.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Why Do Teachers Leave?

Sep 15 2016
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Increasing the number of teachers entering the profession is one strategy for reducing the teacher shortage, but we also need to address the persistent problem of teacher turnover. Each year, more than 200,000 teachers leave the profession, with nearly two out of three leaving for reasons other than retirement. This infographic describes the factors contributing to the teacher exodus.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
Report

A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.

Leib Sutcher,

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Sep 15 2016
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Widespread media reports of local teacher shortages have become a hot topic in education since the summer of 2015. After years of teacher layoffs, districts began hiring again as the economy recovered from the Great Recession. This report analyzes evidence of teacher shortages, looks at national and regional trends in teacher supply and demand, and investigates policy strategies that might mitigate these effects based on research about effective approaches to recruitment and retention.

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

Minority Teacher Recruitment, Employment, and Retention: 1987 to 2013

Richard M. Ingersoll,

Henry May

Sep 15 2016
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The nation’s population and students have grown more racially and ethnically diverse, but the teaching workforce has not experienced similar demographic shifts. This brief summarizes the results of a study of the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority k-12 teachers, examining the extent and sources of the minority teacher shortage and offering evidence-based solutions to addressing the low proportion of minority teachers in comparison to the increasing numbers of minority students in the school system.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Equitable Resources and Access
Brief

Solving the Teacher Shortage: How to Attract and Retain Excellent Educators

Anne Podolsky,

Tara Kini,

Joseph Bishop,

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 15 2016
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Fewer young people choosing to enter the teaching profession and high attrition rates are contributing to teacher shortages. School districts throughout the country are having difficulty finding enough qualified teachers to fill open positions, especially in schools serving low-income students and students of color. This brief summarizes research on teacher recruitment and retention, identifies key factors that influence decisions to enter, stay in, or leave the profession, and offers evidence-based recommendations for policymakers.

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

A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.

Leib Sutcher,

Linda Darling-Hammond,

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Sep 15 2016
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This brief summarizes an analysis of the scope of teacher shortages being experienced throughout the country and discusses the causes and consequences of the shortages. Shortages are particularly severe in special education, mathematics, science, and bilingual/English learner education, and in locations with lower wages and poorer working conditions. This brief also provides recommendations of local, state, and federal policies to support the recruitment and retention of a quality teacher workforce.

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

Strengthening the Early Childhood Workforce to Assure High-Quality Early Education

Titilayo Tinubu Ali

Aug 12 2016
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There is broad agreement among researchers across a wide range of disciplines that early education can give children a powerful start on the path that leads to college and career success. Early learning professionals need what any savvy businessperson wants for his or her company—a motivated, skilled, quality workforce. While recent studies have highlighted several obstacles to building a high-quality early childhood workforce, another points to promising models in four states.

Topics Early Childhood Learning, Educator Quality

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Santa Fe cityscape with the Bataan Memorial Building in foreground and mountains in the background

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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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