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Giffin, Jessica; Lachlan, Lisa; LaTurner, Jason; LeVangie, Samantha – Region 1 Comprehensive Center, 2021
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic led districts and schools to experiment with new staffing and support structures to meet students' academic, emotional, and physical safety needs. Shortages of teachers and substitute teachers, challenging conditions for student teaching, and early retirements all became pressing issues during this time.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Shortage, Educational Strategies
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Uchida, Minami; Cavanagh, Michael; Lane, Rod – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This study examines the professional experiences of casual relief teachers (CRTs) and some of the challenges they face through the lens of practice architecture theory. Practice architecture theory considers human activity through the multi-layered lens of sayings, doings and relatings. A survey was used to collect responses from 104 CRTs who are…
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers, Employment Patterns, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Skaff-Schumaker, Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Although reasons for job satisfaction among permanent teachers are well known, timely studies to explore lack of job satisfaction among substitute teachers have been lacking. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple-case study was to explore job satisfaction among substitute teachers in K-12 public schools in the United States. The theoretical…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction, Substitute Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Diliberti, Melissa; Kaufman, Julia H. – RAND Corporation, 2020
School districts across the United States have had to make many difficult decisions to prepare for the 2020-2021 school year amid the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A seemingly impossible dilemma dominated planning: Should schools reopen buildings to provide much-needed in-person instruction but potentially risk the health…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disease Control
Kaufman, Julia H.; Diliberti, Melissa; Hunter, Gerald P.; Grant, David; Hamilton, Laura S.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Setodji, Claude Messan; Snoke, Joshua; Young, Christopher J. – RAND Corporation, 2020
In spring 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to an unprecedented and sweeping shift in the landscape of public schooling in the United States. Beginning in March, schools across the country closed their doors and adopted remote learning supports that varied in degree and type. In May 2020, researchers from the RAND…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disease Control
Minnesota Department of Education, 2017
Every two years, the Educator Licensing Division of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is tasked with producing a report on the supply and demand of teachers. By statute, that report must contain data collected by surveying Minnesota public school districts, charter schools, and teacher preparation institutions (Minnesota Statute 127A.05,…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Retirement