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Learner-ready to expert practioner: Academy supports teachers' transitions while addressing equity

By Learning Forward
February 2019
Vol. 40 No. 1
In fall 2016, more than 50% of teachers in Kokomo, Indiana, were leaving the profession within their first three years. Within the district, low-performing schools in particular struggled to retain teachers. Kokomo was far from alone in this trend, which is common across the country where high-poverty, high-minority, urban, and rural public schools have among the highest rates of turnover (Ingersoll, Merrill, & Stucky, 2014). The costs of teacher attrition are high for districts. According to a report from the Learning Policy Institute, each teacher who leaves the profession costs her district between $17,000 and $22,000. And this does not take into consideration the impact of the revolving door on students and school improvement efforts (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2017). Each teacher who leaves the profession

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Authors

Lynn Holdheide and Lisa Lachlan-Hache

Lynn Holdheide (lholdheide@air.org) is director and Lisa Lachlan-Haché (llachlan@air.org) is principal researcher at the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders at the American Institutes for Research.

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