Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) reimburses for all assessments associated with chronically critical academic shortage areas, including all areas of special education.

This supplement to the Arkansas Equitable Access to Effective Educators Plan reviews various efforts to eliminate equity gaps for all students by examining strategies aimed at recruiting, preparing, and retaining high quality educators to serve critical shortage areas, including special education.

The SETTA program provides tuition assistance for in-service paraprofessionals that seek to earn a special education teaching certification.

This loan repayment and stipend program aims to reduce related service provider shortages in specified regions by offering incentives of up to $25,000 for speech-language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, and child psychologists who provide early childhood development services.

This loan program is designed to offer a maximum forgivable loan of $7,000 per year for Arizona residents looking to enter the teaching profession, primarily in critical shortage areas such as math, science, and special education.

This collection of resources from the Alaska Department of Education features a variety of strategies and program exemplars relating to the recruitment, preparation, and ongoing support of teachers in Alaska.

This infographic presents a current overview of educator retention and turnover in the State of Alaska.

This page aims to address teacher recruitment in critical shortage areas, such as autism, speech pathology, and gifted education by providing a list of financial incentives available for new hires in high-needs districts.

This resource, from the Alabama State Department of Education, provides an overview of alternative routes to certification and temporary certification options in the state.

This OSEP-funded grant at the University of Kentucky aims to improve speech–language pathology preparation by providing explicit training in telepractice for the delivery of speech–language services while concurrently embedding ongoing clinical experiences in rural schools through teleconferencing.

Grow Your Own Teacher Initiative Resources aims to answer critical questions using evidence and exemplars related to the implementation and effectiveness of Grow Your Own programs in order to recruit and retain high-quality educators.

This collection of resources supports State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) recipients in their efforts to develop, integrate, and evaluate ongoing professional learning to support the retention of personnel serving all students, including those with disabilities.

This OSEP-funded project builds partnerships with select North Carolina community colleges to improve the preparation of early childhood candidates by incorporating evidence-based and competency-based practices that support the inclusion of students with disabilities who are culturally and ethnically diverse, into coursework and practice-based field experiences.

This series, compiled by REL Northwest, presents evidence-based research, data, and resources to help practitioners and policymakers address teacher recruitment, preparation. and retention in their local contexts.

This resource provides guidance for school and district leaders to better target efforts to improve teacher retention through the use of teacher exit surveys.