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A ‘one, some, all’ approach wraps educators in layers of support
In the face of staff shortages and teacher turnover, Worcester (Massachusetts) Public Schools is supporting multiple avenues to recruit and retain quality educators in our district. High-quality profe..
Principal turnover is too high. Principal supervisors can help
While there has been national attention to the crisis of retaining teachers, principal turnover is also high. The average turnover rate for principals is 18% — a number that, while troubling on its ..
What does equity require of me?
Multiple pandemics, including COVID-19, systemic racism, and the opioid crisis, and other international emergencies have laid bare longstanding inequities that have made access to a high-quality educa..
How to translate professional learning to virtual settings
When the COVID-19 pandemic moved teaching and learning to remote and virtual spaces, teacher professional learning moved online as well. Educators discovered that online asynchronous professional lear..
What do Standards for Professional Learning look like in practice?
In our ongoing efforts to illustrate how Standards for Professional Learning can be implemented in diverse settings, Learning Forward created the following case vignette of a fictional district. This ..
Look to research for guidance on retaining teachers
Teacher retention has been a chronic challenge in U.S. schools for decades. Around 10% of teachers leave each year (Sutcher et al., 2016), and that number appears to be rising as the lasting effects o..
Data points
FORTY-EIGHT PERCENT OF PRINCIPALS COME FROM ASSISTANT PRINCIPALSHIP Researchers from Oregon studied 14 years of administrative data from that state to understand public school pr..
