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Teacher Retention
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The Teacher Retention portal points to exemplary, free digital content on teacher retention strategies, policies, and resources that can help administrators, policy makers, and educators plan for and implement programs that are effective in organizing schools for teaching and learning success. These dimensions have been chosen as the foundational catagories for inquiry, based on the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future report, No Dream Denied: A Pledge to America's Children.

Dimensions of Teacher Retention

These dimensions have been chosen as fundamental categories by educators and professionals working in the field. If you are just beginning to learn about this field then these categories should help you address your basic needs.

  1. Strategy 1: Organizing for success
    Organizing every school for teaching and learning success
  2. Strategy 2: Quality teacher preparation
    Insisting on quality teacher preparation, program accreditation, and licensure
  3. Strategy 3: Qualified Teachers for Every Classroom
    Improving Teacher Recruitment and Ensuring Qualified Teachers for Every Classroom
  4. Strategy 4: Career Paths
    Developing and sustaining professionally rewarding career paths for teachers

As your needs become more specific you may want to start browsing the card catalog to find more narrowly focused sets of resources. We recommend that you take our tour before you begin.