Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

The Teacher Workforce Outreach Plan outlines the priorities of the Missouri Department of Education’s teacher recruitment efforts as well as strategies the State is implementing to increase teacher retention.

This loan forgiveness program aims to address speech-language pathologist shortages in Mississippi schools by offering a forgivable loan to speech-language pathologists who commit to serving in Mississippi public or charter school districts for at least one year for each year of funding received.

Minnesota Low Incidence Project offers tuition support for individuals pursuing certification in the areas of Blind Visually Impaired (BVI) and Physical/Health Disabilities (P/HD)

This program, led by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) Special Education Division, aims to better prepare current preparation program students and recent graduates by pairing them with an experienced mentor educator who is certified in the same licensure area.

This residency program was established through a partnership between the University of St. Thomas and Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), to create a pathway for unlicensed MPS employees to work towards a licensure in special education while working full time.

This loan repayment program provides teachers with student loan repayment assistance if they are teaching in a designated geographical region or shortage area, such as special education.

The Minnesota Department of Education has partnered with Region 10 Low Incidence projects, local districts, and regional institutions of higher education to implement several initiatives related to the recruitment and retention of special educators. Initiatives include tuition support, mentoring systems, and other collaborative recruitment activities.

This report summarizes a series of listening sessions involving over 120 educators, including special education teachers, general education teachers, school leaders, related service providers, district leaders, and preparation providers. These listening sessions resulted in a list of solutions for policymakers to consider to address teacher shortages in Michigan.

Teach Western Mass (TWM) is a one-year teacher residency program that aims to provide aspiring teachers without prior education coursework in the State of Massachusetts, accelerated training and eventual licensure in special education (moderate disabilities) or other shortage areas.

This grant program provides tuition assistance for in-service paraprofessionals that seek to earn a teaching certification in a high-need discipline, such as special education.

To ensure that students with disabilities are served by high quality special education Directors and Early Childhood Coordinators, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provides four Leadership Institutes. These four Leadership Institutes gives participants collaboration opportunities and ongoing technical assistance and coaching.

This bill supports efforts to address teacher shortages in Maryland by allocating funds towards digital outreach efforts for educator recruitment in critical shortage areas. This bill also features language specific to efforts for the recruitment and retention of special educators.

This page describes several alternative teacher preparation programs in Maryland, with an emphasis on programs related to certification in high-needs regions and subjects as well as diversifying the educator workforce.

This initiative, led by the Maine Department of Education, draws on funds from Title II and Part A of ESSA to support several programs aimed at attracting and retaining high quality educators. Examples of programs included the Learning Facilitator Credentialing Program as well as regional educator shortage “think tanks”.

MACM is an alternative preparation program that attempts to address Maine’s need for highly qualified special educators by giving conditionally-certified special educators with intensive mentoring and coursework that culminates in full certification.