Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

Recruiting Washington Teachers is a teacher academy program that aims to support high school students to pursue teaching careers in State-identified shortage areas, including special education.

Pathways2Teaching is a concurrent enrollment grow-your-own program in which 11th and 12th grade students explore teaching as a potential career choice through weekly field experiences while earning college credits.

The Urban Teacher Academy attracts high school students to pursue a career in teaching by providing practicum experiences and exposure that focus on teaching in high poverty schools and state-identified high shortage subject areas, including special education.

The ADE Office of Educator Licensure and Department of Career Education offers a pathway for high school students to enter the educator workforce. This pathway begins by providing high school students with targeted coursework, later working as a paraprofessional, while continuing to pursue higher education and in a teacher internship, while completing an educator preparation program.