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Usher, Adrienne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study explored the perceptions, challenges, and lived experiences of women, in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, holding executive level leadership positions to inform tailored support strategies. As female educators aspire to higher levels of leadership in schools and districts, limited avenues of structured informal and formal…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Leadership, Women Faculty, Faculty Mobility
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Mary Elliott; Abbi M. Long; Jennifer M. Pollard; Caroline M. Fitchett; Ginevra Courtade – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2024
A shortage of certified teacher candidates nationwide is especially challenging in the field of special education. U.S. rural school districts are even more impacted due to limited access to universities because of geographical distance. In this program description, we look at the University Louisville's fully online special education alternative…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education
Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2023
Research has shown that while the number of school-age children has steadily increased over time, the number of qualified teachers available to educate them has not matched this need. This topical brief shows the percentage of public schools across the nation with teaching vacancies and summarizes strategies implemented in Region 5 Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment, Public Schools, Strategic Planning
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Herman, Rebecca; Wang, Elaine Lin; Gates, Susan M. – RAND Corporation, 2022
The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs--which prepare the majority of school principals--have struggled with how to make the fundamental changes needed to prepare principals for today's schools. To test a path forward, The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, Educational Cooperation, Curriculum Development
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Ingle, W. Kyle; Leach, Stephen M.; Lingo, Amy S. – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
We examined the characteristics of 77 high school participants from four school districts who participated in the Teaching and Learning Career Pathway (TLCP) at the University of Louisville during the 2018-2019 school year. The program seeks to support the recruitment of a diverse and effective educator workforce by recruiting high school students…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Recruitment, Program Evaluation, Labor Force Development
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2021
This fact sheet focuses on the five-year projections for teachers of English learners (ELs) reported by states. States may have different definitions of EL instructors and different ways of calculating the five-year projections. It provides the following data for teacher projections for ELs in the 2017-18 school year: (1) Number of States That Met…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teacher Supply and Demand
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Guffey, Kristie B.; Young, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
This article describes the collaborative efforts of various state and national agencies working together to recruit and retain agriculture teachers in the states of Kentucky, South Carolina, and Ohio. We contrast multiple measures of recruitment and retention in these states with those from the comparator states of Arkansas, West Virginia, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Agriculture Teachers, Program Evaluation
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Cook, Kristin; Mahmood, Akhtar; Nygard, Cody; Gentry-Johnson, Mira; Blankenship, Mellisa – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2022
STEM teachers are considered one of the most important factors in inspiring high school students in STEM to excite them about the dynamic nature of the STEM fields (PCAST, 2010). Increasing the number of qualified and diverse science and mathematics teachers, especially those working in high-need areas, is of paramount importance. The intention of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Student Interests, Teaching (Occupation)
Exley, Woody – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2021
Over half of U.S. public school students are children and teens of color, yet only about 8 percent of their teachers and administrators are people of color. Convinced that teacher and leader diversity is an essential component of an equitable education for all students, state boards of education have adopted a variety of strategies to attract,…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Equal Education, Educational Strategies, Strategic Planning
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Herman, Rebecca; Woo, Ashley; Wang, Elaine Lin; Gates, Susan M.; Berglund, Tiffany; Schweig, Jonathan; Andrew, Megan; Todd, Ivy – RAND Corporation, 2022
The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs -- which prepare the majority of school principals -- have struggled with how to make the fundamental changes needed to prepare principals for today's schools. This report shares lessons…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, Recruitment, Personnel Selection
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Herman, Rebecca; Wang, Elaine Lin; Woo, Ashley; Gates, Susan M.; Berglund, Tiffany; Schweig, Jonathan; Andrew, Megan; Todd, Ivy – RAND Corporation, 2022
This report in brief shares findings from the RAND Corporation's five-year study of The Wallace Foundation's University Principal Preparation Initiative (UPPI). The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation programs (PPPs)--which prepare the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Principals, Recruitment, Personnel Selection
Adarrell LaFawn Owsley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Strategies to recruit and hire faculty and staff of color to the Commonwealth of Kentucky's population levels have continued for 57 years. From Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the Kentucky Plan in 1982 to the Strategic Plan for Kentucky Higher Education from 1982 to 1995, to the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education's 2010-2015…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Policy Analysis
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Ashley Ellison; Thomas Smith – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: School districts across the United States face persistent difficulties recruiting and retaining teachers (García & Weiss, 2019; Schmitt & deCourcy, 2022). Over the last decade, every state in the south has faced a growing teacher shortage, with some facing shortages in all grades and subjects (U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment
Caroline E. Parker; Anne Partika; Sara Rutherford-Quach – National Comprehensive Center, 2024
One in 10 public school students in the United States are designated as English learners (ELs), an increase of more than 25 percent over the past 2 decades (National Center for Education Statistics, 2022). In nearly half of states, the proportion of students designated as ELs has more than doubled since 2000. Further, several states--such as…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Bilingual Teachers
Kentucky Department of Education, 2019
The training materials presented in this guide were developed by the Kentucky Department of Education as guidance during the process of selecting a principal. This training represents best practices for the principal selection process. These suggested steps and ideas are written with the expectations that all involved parties are following the…
Descriptors: Principals, Personnel Selection, Selection Criteria, Decision Making
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