Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

This brief provides an overview of research identifying factors that influence special education teacher shortages and suggests a systemic approach to improve special education teacher retention.

This report summarizes the research findings on the funding systems for education in South Dakota and offers a set of recommendations to address the recruitment and retention of educators in the state. Recommendations include models for expanding funding as well as strategies related to licensure reciprocity and educator induction.

This report, written in collaboration between the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Learning Policy Institute, examines root causes, policy implications, and strategies for addressing teacher shortages in Pennsylvania. This report highlights specific challenges surrounding and strategies for addressing special education shortages in the state.

The Ohio Related Services Workgroup was established to address causes and solutions for the shortage of related service providers in school settings. This report summarizes root causes of the related service provider shortage in Ohio and offers recommendations for strategies and approaches to alleviate the shortage.

This resource offers evidenced-based approaches to addressing educator preparation and retention by reconceptualizing approaches to personnel preparation as well as school staffing models, in order to provide teachers with high-quality, continuous professional learning opportunities.

This tool allows stakeholders to leverage existing student enrollment and educator workforce data to better understand and predict educator shortage trends in specific content areas and localities. This tool can then assist stakeholders to proactively identify and later implement strategies to address shortages.

This toolkit provides a framework for States and districts to establish opportunities for teacher leadership roles in order to support educator development and retention. This toolkit synthesizes research on teacher leadership, highlights real-world exemplars, and offers ten supporting resources that can be used at the Federal, State, or local level.

The Georgia Teacher Pipeline summit is an annual event in which various Georgia stakeholders, including State education agency personnel, educator preparation programs, alternative preparation programs, local education agency personnel, school-level staff, and OSEP leaders, work collaboratively to develop a comprehensive approach for improving and strengthening the teacher pipeline in Georgia. Teams focus on short- and long-term talent management strategies to attract, prepare, and retain effective teachers and leaders for all students, including those with disabilities.

The GTL Center’s Shortage Strategy Selection Tool provides resources, program exemplars, and research that will help teams identify, select, implement, and continuously improve strategies to address special education teacher shortages.

This toolkit created in collaboration between the GTL Center and CEEDAR Center to support states and districts in identifying both short-term and long-term evidence-based strategies to address teacher shortages in special education.

This brief outlines short-term strategies for addressing Special education teacher shortages that, when paired with long-term comprehensive strategies, can be used to attract, prepare, and retain effective personnel to serve students with disabilities.

This planning framework from the CEEDAR Center provides guidelines to support educator preparation programs to integrate evidence-based and high-leverage practices within coursework and clinical experiences.

This special issue brief from the CEEDAR Center and GTL Center outlines essential features to assist preparation program faculty, teacher educators, and other collaborators in planning for and implementing effective, practice-based opportunities for candidates through coursework and field experiences. This brief also showcases several preparation programs that have enacted innovative strategies to implement practice-based opportunities

This brief describes strategies for leveraging teacher candidates in school buildings as assets to help alleviate teacher shortages in many content areas and to provide individualized learning support for students with the greatest needs.