This is yet another watershed moment for the educator workforce. The challenges confronting districts are profound: declining enrollment in teacher preparation programs, persistent shortages in critical content areas, underrepresentation of teachers of color, and spreading educator burnout.
These issues, long in the making, were laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and currently exacerbated by decreases in funding options to counter these trends given decreased student enrollment and federal grants.
The University of Virginia Partnership for Leaders in Education (PLE) and the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy (USHCA) are supporting forward-thinking school systems across the country to rise to this watershed workforce moment. Many of these systems leveraged stimulus funds to reimagine traditional staffing structures to better respond to students’ learning needs and are now problem-solving how to continue evolving staffing strategy in a more resource constrained environment.
This paper builds on these examples and brings together national trend data, practitioner innovations, and policy research to present a current view of the educator workforce landscape and considerations for results-oriented leaders.
DOWNLOAD THE PAPER: Reimagining the Educator Workforce
