"Grow-your-own" is the most popular teacher recruitment strategy in the nation's largest school systems, with many leaders implementing team teaching and expanded PD.
While education systems scramble to reduce costs, the quality of professional development events for educators and administrators is on the line. It shouldn't be.
Districts are paying teachers to work longer hours, offering retention bonuses and pursuing other strategies that break with tradition, an analysis says.
With tapering enrollment trends and doubled rates of chronic absenteeism nationwide, the key strategic priorities hinge on talent, communication and support.
"I've never experienced such a rapid and profound increase in maladaptive behaviors as what educators have reported since the pandemic," a lifelong administrator and teacher writes.
Preparing students for future political engagement ranked last when teachers were asked why civics and citizenship education is necessary; critical and independent thinking top the list.
