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Teacher retention: The role of professional learning
Presenters: Melissa Harvey, Paul Katnik and Andrea Thomas-Reynolds
As schools grapple with teacher shortages and turnover, professional learning is a vital but underutilized investment in the workforce. This webinar will explore how professional learning can improve retention and long-term career success. Presenters will share retention strategies that are grounded in commitment to educators’ development and to building their capacity to address current challenges.
Participants of this webinar will:
- Learn how high-quality professional learning supports teacher retention;
- Discover strategies for boosting teacher retention by investing in teacher development;
- Examine how to incorporating teachers’ perspectives on their jobs and professional needs into retention efforts;
- Explore the progress and results of districts’ and states’ investments in teacher retention; and
- Gather ideas for making professional learning a key part of your retention strategies.
Presenters
Melissa Harvey is the principal of Bobby Summers Middle School in Royse City I.S.D. in Fate, Texas. She has been a part of the Royse City ISD family since 2020, where she served as the associate principal for Summers Middle School before becoming principal.
Paul Katnik is the assistant commissioner of the Office of Educator Quality. Katnik has been in education for over three decades working with children of all ages, K-12, as both a teacher and a building principal. He has served at the Missouri Department of Education for over nearly 20 years, and has been instrumental in coordinating the state model Educator Evaluation System, revising teacher and leader preparation programs, developing the state’s Educator Equity Plan, and creating the Missouri Leadership Development System.
Andrea Thomas-Reynolds is senior vice president of Insight Education Group. She is responsible for contract service delivery and the administration of the Empowering Educators to Excel (E3) program funded through the US Department of Education's Teacher and School Leader grant and is the project director for the IGNITE Grant, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s 2020 Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program.
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