Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

These high-leverage practices help special educators and teacher candidates use effective practices for collaboration, assessment, social/emotional/behavioral supports, and instruction.

This resource collection provides reports and data about the special education teacher and related service provider shortage.

This report provides an overview of the shortage crisis in direct support professional workforce through an examination of various data sources, research, and other related policies.

This interactive map highlights factors that reflect and impact teacher supply and attrition in each of the 50 States, focusing on indicators such as teacher attractiveness, teacher equity, compensation, and working conditions.

This resource presents a variety of interactive tools, research briefs, and strategies for addressing teacher shortages in the U.S. This toolkit includes a specialized section on special education teacher shortages.

This research review examines strategies for attracting and retaining educators at the Federal, State, and district levels.

This page gathers LPI's latest resources on teacher shortages that can provide useful background and data on this serious issue.

This brief series examines five strategies States are using to address teacher shortages in the United States: alternative certification, financial incentives, induction and mentorship, evaluation and feedback, and teacher leadership.

This resource collection compiles 50-State comparisons of state-specific information related to various aspects of teacher shortages, such as data reports, State policies, financial incentives, mentoring and induction programs, and more.

This collection provides an overview of State-specific shortage data that have been published in the past five years. This collection does not include States’ Shortage Area Listing reports that are reported to the U.S. Department of Education annually.

This campaign spotlights innovative practices, policies and stories of progress that States are adopting to strengthen educator preparation, especially in critical shortage areas.

This interactive map provides an overview of strategies for building teacher pipelines in each of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia.

This report explores how micro-credentials were uniquely implemented in six districts throughout the United States and examines the impact the micro-credentialing programs had on educator professional development and retention.

This report investigates the effects of Statewide teacher incentive programs in hard-to-staff subjects, such as special education. This report finds a relationship between financial incentives, such as loan forgiveness, and decreased teacher attrition in shortage areas.

This report from the Center on American Progress presents the findings from a national survey on school districts’ human capital practices and analyzes the impact of those human capital systems on teacher attraction and retention.