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Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2024
Teachers are the most important school-related factor impacting students' academic outcomes. To meet the needs and potential of all students, North Carolina must be able to recruit and retain high-quality teachers. North Carolina continues to experience challenges with vacancies and positions filled with teachers who are not fully certified in…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Competencies
Dan Goldhaber; Cyrus Grout – Center for Education Data & Research, 2024
Turnover in the teacher workforce imposes significant costs to schools, both in terms of student achievement and the time and expense required to recruit and train new staff. This paper examines the potential for structured ratings of teacher applicants, solicited from their professional references, to inform hiring decisions through the selection…
Descriptors: Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
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Jerrie Brooks; Jacqueline Lubin; Stephanie Weigel – Advocate, 2024
This study's purpose was to obtain a current picture of special education in rural districts to understand what can be done to attract special education teachers and what can be done to keep them in rural regions. A survey adapted from Berry (2012) was administered via Qualtrics to special education teachers in rural Midwest US. Sixty percent of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Recruitment
Danielle Sanderson Edwards; Matthew A. Kraft – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
"Grow Your Own" (GYO) programs have recently emerged as a promising approach to expand teacher supply, address localized teacher shortages, and diversify the profession. However, little is known about the scale and design of GYO programs, which recruit and support individuals from the local community to become teachers. We conduct a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage
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Sumaya Daoud; Aleksandra Kasztalska – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Despite growing criticisms of native-speakerism in English Language Teaching (ELT), the 'native speaker' concept is still used in the recruitment of teachers (Mahboob & Golden, 2013; Ruecker & Ives, 2015). This study critically evaluates the impact of native-speakerism on ELT hiring practices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). To identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Pernilla Nilsson; Anne-Marie Cederqvist – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2025
High-quality teacher education plays a crucial role in the development of successful educational systems around the world. However, educational systems face challenges in relation to attracting and retaining excellent teachers. To meet teacher shortage, the Swedish government introduced alternative programmes that are more flexible than…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Career Choice, Career Change, Foreign Countries
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Laurel A. LaPorte-Grimes; Marcquis T. Parham – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2025
The present study contributes to the body of work addressing the need for diversity in the educator workforce. The study examines six grant-funded projects designed to increase the diversity of teacher candidates, support these candidates through licensure, and ultimately increase the diversity of the teacher workforce in Ohio. Data was gathered…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Shand, Robert; Batts, Jacqui – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2023
Collaboration among teachers is an important vehicle for teacher development, shared leadership, improving student achievement, building school culture, and attracting and retaining effective teachers. However, if professional collaborative environments are not truly diverse and inclusive or marginalize individual teachers or groups of teachers…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inclusion, Diversity (Faculty), Racism
Tamerat, Jalene; Lee, Clifford – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Traditional teacher education and alternative teacher preparation programs struggle to recruit and retain prospective and early-career educators of color. To address this challenge, Jalene Tamerat and Clifford Lee recount their experiences as teachers and teacher educators-of color. They propose a reframing of pedagogies, curricula, and…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Cultural Capital
Morgan, Andrew; Nguyen, Minh; Hanushek, Eric; Ost, Ben; Rivkin, Steven – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high-poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge with information produced by its evaluation system to offer large, compensating differentials to highly effective teachers willing to work in its lowest-achievement schools. The Accelerating Campus…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Poverty, Public Schools, Teacher Persistence
Tony Faison – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Grow Your Own Teacher (GYOT) program addresses the shortage of qualified teachers by recruiting and training community residents to become qualified teachers. These programs look and feel like community-building strategies instead of teacher pipeline strategies. The GYOT initiative is not new, but the mainstream absorption of the GYOT…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Schools, School Districts
Maurice Stein – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The United States is witnessing an overwhelming teacher shortage that shows no signs of slowing down. With a tarnished profession of being underpaid and overworked, districts are lowering requirements to hire teaching faculty. Research has shown that lack of training significantly predicts a teaching career's longevity. With White female teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Diversity (Faculty)
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Michelle Elizabeth Flemons; Joanne Hill; Toni O'Donovan; Angel Chater – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Physical education (PE) teachers' interactions with students were explored to examine self-selection for PE teaching as a career option during school. Method: Semistructured life story interviews were conducted with 29 PE teachers at different career stages. Complementing occupational socialization, Bourdieu's habitus, capital, field, and…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Career Choice, Teacher Student Relationship, Socialization
Terese N. Conrad – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This descriptive qualitative study explored the perceptions of central office administrators regarding the benefits and challenges experienced supporting teacher professional learning since the COVID-19 pandemic. Through semi-structured interviews with eight administrators, the study uncovered two themes regarding benefits and three themes…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Development, COVID-19
Cynthia Miller; Danielle Cummings – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
The Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE) project aims to increase knowledge and understanding in child care and early education (CCEE) by documenting factors that drive workforce turnover and by building evidence on current initiatives to recruit, advance, and retain a stable and qualified CCEE workforce. As…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence
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