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Brian R. Sevier; Joanna Bruno; Karol Gates; Stephanie Hartman; Mary Ellen Pittman; Vince Puzick; Phyllis Reed; Beverly Reimer – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this essay Brian R. Sevier, Joanna Bruno, Karol Gates, Stephanie Hartman, Mary Ellen Pittman, Vince Puzick, Phyllis Reed, and Beverly Reimer describe their effort at the Colorado Department of Education to recruit and engage educators in authoring free and open-source curriculum samples for preK-12 academic content areas. The story of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Emily Morton; Emma Dewil – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Four-day school week (4DSW) schedules are growing rapidly across the U.S., with school districts citing perceived benefits to teacher recruitment and retention and student attendance as motivations for adopting the schedule. This study uses panel data from Colorado, one of the states with the highest prevalence of 4DSWs, to investigate the impacts…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Attendance Patterns
Region 9 Comprehensive Center, 2022
Although the percentage of teachers of color in the workforce has grown significantly over the past 30 years, it still does not reflect the diversity of the national population or students. Teachers of color also have higher turnover rates than White teachers, highlighting the need for strategies to retain teachers of color as well as recruit more…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Minority Group Teachers
Emily R. Wiegand; Shannon Guiltinan; Thao Tran; Robert M. Goerge – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
Postsecondary programs in early childhood education (ECE) can provide a pathway for new educators to enter the child care and early education (CCEE) field or for the advancement and professional development of individuals already in the field. At a time when CCEE administrators report difficulties in finding qualified applicants, the recruitment…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
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Banghart, Kirk – State Education Standard, 2021
In Colorado, where higher education institutions are not graduating enough candidates to fill open teaching jobs, particularly in specializations such as math, several initiatives are working to improve rural teacher recruitment and retention. Through scholarships, state university partnerships, a multidistrict professional learning community, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Rural Schools, Faculty Mobility
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James, Katherine A.; Levinson, Arnold H.; Li, Yaqiang; Baumann, Carsten; Maffey, Ali – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
Public health relies on sample surveys to monitor the health of populations and investigate factors that contribute to population health and illness. Such investigations require surveying individuals who are selected in ways that support statistical inference to the population. Faced with rising costs and declining participation, survey…
Descriptors: Public Health, Sampling, State Surveys, Recruitment
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Elaine S. Belansky; Liliana Diaz Solodukhin; Anna Edelman; Savannah Hobbs; Cynthia Hazel; Nicholas Cutforth – Rural Educator, 2024
The United States is experiencing a teacher shortage crisis that is even more pronounced in rural communities. Teachers may be driven away from the profession if they feel inadequately trained or under-supported to address students' mental health needs. As such, an important teacher retention strategy is to ensure schools have enough mental health…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, School Personnel, Recruitment, Mental Health
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2022
House Bill 21-1010 tasked the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) to convene a workgroup dedicated to identifying obstacles to increasing the diversity of Colorado's educator workforce and to develop recommendations for meeting the challenge. This report is a result of the workgroup's…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Equal Education, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
Francies, Cassidy; Glover, Sarah; Jamieson, Carlos – Education Commission of the States, 2021
Teacher shortages in some regions, schools and content areas have caused states to consider fast-tracking teachers into the classroom through avenues that include little or no clinical preparation. Teachers who enter the profession through these pathways are less likely to be prepared, less effective and less likely to remain in the profession…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Accreditation (Institutions)
Diane Susan Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Reports of ecological disturbances - wildfires, loss of biodiversity, drought, contaminated drinking water, extreme temperatures - fill the news. People have to navigate and manage these challenges. To do so effectively, requires that people are environmentally literate (EL), demonstrating an understanding of the problems, so they are motivated to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Tara Mason; Jill Choate – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2023
Colorado has a significant shortage of special education teachers, particularly within rural areas. This article will compare two grant-funded recruitment and training projects drawing connections from the current research base in training and retention. High-Leverage Practices were infused into these projects to support authentic assistive…
Descriptors: Grants, Teacher Recruitment, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Shortage
Pechota, Damion – Education Commission of the States, 2022
To best train and support school leaders in their evolving roles, they require high-quality preparation and in-service pipelines that both address the changing demands on their positions and acknowledge the cascading effects that well-prepared leaders have on both student outcomes and in school culture and retention. Including school leaders in…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, State Policy
Andrea Guiden; Visha Patel – Region 12 Comprehensive Center, 2021
States and local education systems hold the primary responsibility for delivering public education in the United States. During the past several years, the quality of the American education system has become national policy priority, replete with school reform efforts designed to hold all students to high standards, increase student achievement,…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence, Educational Practices, COVID-19
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2020
In a rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever for learners of all ages to develop the skills and experiences necessary to succeed in high-wage, high-skilled and high-demand careers of their choosing. Career Technical Education (CTE) is working with every state to help learners succeed, while also providing employers with skilled and…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Vocational Education, Communication Strategies, Audience Awareness
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Cieminski, Amie B. – Education Leadership Review, 2018
Principals are instrumental to successful school improvement efforts and positive student outcomes. However, recent workforce trends, increased accountability, demands of the job, and turnover rates for school principals are worrisome. Succession planning is a systematic approach that involves all aspects of identifying and retaining leaders…
Descriptors: Leadership, Administrative Change, Occupational Mobility, Principals
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