The teacher attrition rate has drawn serious attention, but the extreme turnover in rural minority communities has become a crisis. To address it, one university's Educator Preparation Provider (EPP) partnered with local districts to offer paid yearlong residencies. In the residency model, residents receive income, intensive support, and job-embedded training. School districts use residents as substitutes on Fridays and engrain them into their school culture. The EPP compared the performance of candidates in traditional student teaching to those in the residency model and residents performed significantly higher in a majority of the components on their final performance-based assessment.