Supporting substitute teachers
Q: Our district has many teacher vacancies, and we have been forced to use substitutes and other...
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Tag: teacher shortage
Where are the teachers of color? Getting cut out and lured away.
We desperately need teachers of color. But throughout the U.S., we have not gotten them, despite decades of knowing this and making massive investments to attract them.
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What’s the public perception of teacher shortages?
This article appears in the February 2024 issue of Kappan, Vol. 105, No. 5, p. 72.
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Removing artificial barriers to licensure could ease the teacher shortage
When I first became a teacher educator more than a decade ago, I worked with a teacher residency...
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The rural teacher shortage
Teacher dissatisfaction is causing more turnover at rural schools compared to urban and suburban...
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We need to know more about CTE teachers
High school career and technical education teachers play a pivotal role in the success of many...
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It’s time to listen to educators
When I became a teacher, I had what many might consider the ideal position. I was teaching...
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Why teachers are leaving and what we can do about it
Two years of pandemic teaching have left teachers exhausted. What do they need in order to stay in the classroom?
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Harnessing the power of career changers to address teacher shortages
Who will teach? That’s a question school administrators across the country have been asking, as...
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A better start for teachers
In the spring, it appeared that the nation’s schoolteachers might steer clear of the Great...
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Solving the teacher shortage: Revisiting the lessons we’ve learned
Years ago, many states came up with ways to address teacher shortages only to see those efforts dismantled for political reasons.
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