Research tells us that school leaders are second only to teachers on the impact to student outcomes. Why? Because great teachers love to work for great leaders. Join this session to learn more about how to develop the mindset and skill set for continued recruitment and retention success at the school and district level. The session will focus on school-based onboarding teams, stay interviews, empowering teacher leadership, and more. The lessons learned from the district and school perspective will help attendees avoid potential pitfalls and roadblocks.

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  Dustin Criswell

  Principal, Decatur Middle School at MSD of Decatur Township
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  Chris Gearlds

  E3+ Project Director of MSD Decatur Township
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  Andrea Thomas-Reynolds

  Senior Vice President at Insight Education Group

Being new in a job can be one of the loneliest times in a new teacher’s life. Providing a personalized support lever, Onboarding Teams are teacher-led, school-based teams of three to five teachers who provide personalized connections for new hires—from the moment they are hired through their entire first year. Whether new hires are experienced teachers or coming into the profession for their first year, the teams provide a level of support that traditional induction or orientation programs may miss, including invitations to join others for meals, support on a variety of school resources, recommendations on housing, restaurants, and community activities, as well as just a listening ear. Based on the science of the impact of belonging and connection in the workplace, learn how members of the Empowering Educators to Excel Networked Improvement Community have structured school teams, what the work throughout the year looks like for teams, and what successes the teams and new hires have experienced.

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  Chris Gearlds

  E3+ Project Director of MSD Decatur Township
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  Jana Anderson

  Recruitment and Retention Coach at MSD Decatur Township
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  Jack Birmingham

  E3+ Recruitment/Retention Coach at MSD Decatur Township

This session, presented by David Donaldson of the National Center for Grow Your Own, will provide the benefits of registered apprenticeships in teaching. Previously, Donaldson served as the Chief of Human Capital for the Tennessee Department of Education where he led the launch of their Grow Your Own programs for 65 districts and 14 educator preparation providers to create opportunities for just over 670 aspiring educators to become a teacher for free and get paid to do so. He also was the lead author on the approved application to the U.S. Department of Labor to establish the occupation of a K-12 teacher as eligible for apprenticeship. His center now supports states, districts and EPPs to launch or expand a Grow Your Own program and registered apprenticeships in teaching.

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  David Donaldson

  Managing Partner at National Center for Grow Your Own

This session will provide insight into how you can implement a "Grow Your Own" model for your community. We know the teacher shortage problem impacts so many districts and we aim to help you with this issue. Educators Rising is a community-based model, in which student chapters at local schools feed teacher preparation programs at institutes of higher education with the support of State Departments of Education, local funders, and foundations. These entities come together to provide a clear pathway to increase teacher diversity and teacher quality. You will learn about resources that are available to you in order to propel a "Grow Your Own" model in your community. After all, it costs an average of $10,000 to recruit and onboard a teacher and almost 60% of teachers come back and teach within 20 miles of where they went to school. With 51% of Educators Rising members being students of color AND being 400% more likely to stay with their aspirations from high school to enter the teaching field than to enter other fields, shouldn’t your community have an Educators Rising Program to ensure that you can grow your own teachers?

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  Wally Janneh

  Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at PDK/Educators Rising

Directed for those on the college career services side of the hiring process. Round table problem, solution, what's working questions and sharing.

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  Sandra Frederick

  Director of Education Career Services at Grove City College Department of Education
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  Julie Paskiet

  Assistant Director of Peer Coordination and Program Management for Career Exploration and Development at Kent State University

AACPS truly believes in the power of the National Board Certification program to impact student learning as well as grow teacher capacity, AACPS supports teachers pursuing NBC by providing support meetings, certificate area-based cohorts, school-based cohorts, and NBC Facilitators to help mentor a candidate through the portfolio.

AACPS has a robust support program. Teachers meet several times a month with either their certificate-area Professional Learning Facilitator (PLF) and/or their school-based PLF in small groups to receive and give feedback on their writing, student work samples, and videos. Candidates are members of an NBC Brightspace community and have access to discussions and support through the internet.

This presentation will present the AACPS NBC Support Program as a model for other school systems, and will also give suggestions on how to form a support program in a school or district.

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  Dr. Susan Malone

  NBC Support Teacher Specialist at Anne Arundel County Public Schools

As many districts are challenged with teacher and staff shortages, the focus on employee retention is more important than ever. Attendees will learn how one school district collects and utilizes research-based data from teachers to prioritize engagement and retention. This district will share how they have utilized improvement science research to team up with an Upbeat leadership coach to help principals develop individualized action plans geared toward improving teacher retention at their respective campuses.

Hear directly from the district representative regarding how they have utilized their teacher retention data and made large strides in increasing professional autonomy and leadership opportunities, demonstrating greater appreciation for teachers, and strengthening the trust between principals and administrators.

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  Theresa West

  Leadership Coach at Upbeat
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  Denise Sowell

  Director of Human Resources at Fairfield County School District

In this workshop, participants will dig into some rather surprising data about the teaching profession. We will also share strategies and resources for sharing the facts about the profession so that students will have accurate information about their career prospects. Get the Facts Out is excited to work with colleges and school districts (including St. Vrain Valley Schools) on their teacher recruitment efforts and is providing customized resources including student presentations, posters, brochures, program flyer templates, and presentations for recruiters. In addition, strategies and experiences (from St. Vrain) will be shared that include how to talk to students about the profession, a listing of venues for reaching students, and recommendations for sharing the facts in your institution or district. All materials are professional quality, research-based, and have been extensively user-tested. Get the Facts Out is a partnership between the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, the American Mathematics Teacher Educators, and the American Association of Physics Teachers led by the Colorado School of Mines. NSF #1821710 & 1821462.

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  Wendy Adams

  Director, Teach@Mines of Colorado School of Mines
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  Ty Valentine

  Executive Director of Human Resources at St. Vrain Valley Schools

Investing in your current teaching assistant (TA) staff can help with hard to fill special education vacancies. Learn how one district has worked with a local university to provide the prerequisite course as a scholarship to TAs that makes them eligible for a provisional license. These efforts help with recruitment, retention, and diversity of staff in this critical needs area.

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  Dr. Wendy Martin-Johnson

  Supervisor of Staffing & Recruitment for Special Education at Prince William County Public Schools

This session will show NYC Men Teach as a leader in education diversity by highlighting three key areas: program model, recruitment, and commitment to funding. Tasked with the goal of diversifying NYC public schools with more underrepresented males of color, NYC Men Teach has established an effective model by (1) identifying the issue: Male students of color in NYC are not proportionally represented in the classroom; (2) providing a solution: Creating and implementing the NYC Men Teach program, and (3) showing effective outcomes: All NYC students benefit from a diverse teaching force and culturally responsive learning environment.

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  William Anders

  University Director of NYC Men Teach at City University of New York
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  Fatima Sherif

  NYC Men Teach Program Director of Lehman College
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  Nathaniel Smith

  Director of NYC Men Teach at City University of New York (CUNY) at Queens College

How do you create an infinite pipeline of educators for your district? Colonial School District and Relay Graduate School of Education have partnered to create a sustainable pipeline of educators through a non-traditional path to the classroom. It all started with a budding relationship almost a decade ago and has since blossomed into a deep, meaningful partnership that is uncommon among public school districts and institutes of higher education. The two organizations continue to collaborate and iterate their approach which has helped to support an increasing number of educators into the district through a ‘Grow Your Own’ approach.

Join this panel discussion as they share the journey that has resulted in a consistent stream of diversified educators into their schools.

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  Jennifer Alexander

  Director of Talent Development at Colonial School District
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  Christine Eisenhauer

  National Executive Director, Partnerships of Relay Graduate School of Education
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  Pete Leida

  Partnership Manager at Insight Education Group
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  TeRay Ross

  Principal at Colonial School District
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  Katie Kremer

  Lead Teacher – Recruiting and Mentoring at Colonial School District
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  Dana Davisson

  Program Director of Relay Graduate School of Education

Anne Arundel County Schools offers two alternative certification programs for special education and general education candidates. This session will provide a brief overview of each RTC/MAAPP program including recruitment, the application process, pathways to certification and the amazing benefits of participating in these two unique, fabulous programs!

The AACPS/NDMU Special Education RTC partnership program with Notre Dame of Maryland University will be shared, including the intensive pre-service training, supervised internship, 1-2 year residency, graduate-level coursework, exit capstone activities and mentoring over a two-year period. Completion of the program results in dual certification in special education and elementary education or a secondary content area.

The AACPS/AACC RTC partnership program with Anne Arundel Community College will be shared, including a review of the program components, pre-service professional development, the eight-week internship, 1 to 2 year residency, exit capstone activities including a professional portfolio which result in a Maryland Standard Professional Teaching Certificate. This program has been approved by MSDE for 14 middle and high school certification areas and is anticipating approval by Fall 2022 for two additional certification areas (elementary and early childhood certification.

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  Maureen Gerrity

  Special Education LRE Specialist/RTC Manager at Anne Arundel County Public Schools
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  Debbie Montgomery

  HR Recruiter at Anne Arundel County Public Schools

The Teacher Licensure Collaborative (TLC) is a growing group of states and national partners focused on responding to pressing challenges staffing classrooms with well-prepared educators while building strong and aligned systems of educator preparation, development, and support. Research from the field points to important transformations in teaching practice that are needed to ensure that all children experience the secure relationships, skillful teaching, and personalized supports that enable healthy development and successful lives.

To implement practices that meet the developmental needs of all children, schools must have educators who are prepared with deep knowledge of how children grow and learn and the skills to transform that knowledge into supportive schoolwide practices. Strong educator preparation, grounded in the principles of whole child learning and development, is needed now more than ever to help teachers build these skills and meet this moment.

This session will explore how different TLC states are working to advance a vision for a stable and well-prepared teaching profession and building systems that support the development of whole child practices in every classroom. Participating state leaders will highlight the role collaboration (both within their state and across the TLC) has played in supporting their work, while speaking to current policy efforts across recruitment, preparation, and retention.

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  Ryan Saunders

  Senior Policy Advisor at Learning Policy Institute
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  Joan Johnson

  Virginia Department of Education

Join the Pathways Alliance for a discussion on how educator prep programs can best plan, implement and improve the quality of their programs, to best meet the needs of educators in the current climate.

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  Brent W. Maddin, Ed.D.

  Executive Director of the Next Education Workforce Initiative at Arizona State University
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  Sabrina Baptiste

  Program Operations Director of InnovateEDU

With the NEA stating through their recent survey in January 2022 that 55% of educators are planning to leave education sooner than planned, and 90% of educators sharing they are experiencing burnout, teacher wellness seems to be more important than ever. This session will share some highlights about how to help pre-service teachers build skills to advocate for what they need and gain the time and space needed for wellness.

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  Gilda Martinez-Alba

  Assistant Dean, College of Education at Towson University