Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

Opportunity Culture is a program in which teachers’ roles are restructured so that the teachers can serve as teacher leaders and extend their reach to more students for additional pay but still within existing school-level budgets. Opportunity Culture experts work alongside school leaders to restructure school budgets in order to fund these new roles.

This national collaboration, led by a task force of 15 national organizations, aims to empower the professions of the early childhood workforce by establishing a framework and setting a vision for how to drive the significant and sustained public investment that will allow children birth through 8 to benefit from a well-prepared, diverse, supported, and compensated workforce.

This resource library highlights research studies, briefs, and program exemplars on educator recruitment and preparation through paraeducator career ladder programs.

This resource highlights the impact of Grow Your Own programs on overcoming barriers that lead to critical teacher shortages and provides State exemplars of successful Grow Your Own program implementation.

This document offers a variety of research and policy reviews as well as resource guides related to the topic of teacher employment and retention through a policy lens.

This report highlights the overwhelming need for each State to building the education work force that is based on their State's specific needs.

These reports highlight essential questions and policy options to support State legislators considering policies to recruit, prepare and retain effective teachers.

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

This report highlights five diverse educator preparation programs that take innovative approaches to special education teacher certification.

This page provides prospective and practicing school psychologists with information on credentialing and continuing education agency requirements and examines whether each State accepts a Nationally Certified School Psychologist as an alternative route and provides links to further information on its alignment with State credentialing requirements.

These two pages support attracting and preparing high-quality school psychologists by offering a variety of resources, preparation program information and licensing information to prospective school psychology candidates.

This process will help connect potentially qualified graduate student candidates with school psychology programs that have remaining slots for incoming students in late spring through summer.

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.