Recruitment and Retention
Every child deserves to be placed in a classroom taught by a talented, dedicated, and highly qualified teacher. With numerous reports indicating the difficulties many school districts are having in recruiting and retaining effective teachers, questions regarding the most effective strategies to meet this goal have surfaced:
- Why do teachers stay in the profession? Why do teachers leave the profession?
- What are the characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain effective teachers?
- What types of policies show evidence of efficacy in recruiting and retaining effective teachers?
The TQ Source houses the following resources for teacher recruitment and retention:
The purpose of the teacher recruitment and retention section of the TQ Source is to help policymakers, teacher educators, and others answer these and additional important questions and find out about programs, data, policies, and the realities of teacher recruitment and retention across the country.
