Attract, Prepare, Retain Resource Database

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 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.

The Coalition for Teacher Quality includes over 100 organizations, over a dozen of which are centered on students with disabilities. This series of briefs aims to provide various stakeholders with strategies, resources, and tools to build strong and diverse teacher and leader pipelines.

This program works to recruit, retain, and develop certified African American male teachers in schools and content areas where they are highly underrepresented, particularly in elementary and middle school settings.

This segment of AACTE's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion video series highlights three approaches that AACTE is taking to address the shortage of highly qualified special education teachers.

This bill supports efforts to increase teacher recruitment in high-needs areas, including special education, by awarding grants to districts to enhance professional development and offer stipends to teachers in American Indian- and Alaskan Native-concentration schools

This report summarizes responses to a series of focus groups of educators of color in various areas, including special educators, and case studies of the experiences of educators of color in the workforce. This report offers recommendations for schools, districts, and States to consider in order to support educators of color, reduce attrition, and build more inclusive work environments.

This report from the Georgia Department of Education analyzes the results of a survey of over 50,000 Georgia educators on the main factors leading to personnel attrition in the State, including the impact of in-service educators on prospective candidates’ perceptions of the field, gaps in preparation, and the role of school leaders on retention.

This webinar, hosted by Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest (REL Midwest), highlights evidence-based strategies to support increased retention rates for Black educators and help improve educational outcomes for Black students.

This fact sheet provides an overview of educator shortages in New York, including shortage subject areas, the impact of retirement, and teacher preparation data.

This infographic presents a current overview of educator shortages in Montana, including shortage subject areas, mobility and retention, as well as the implications of Montana’s educator shortage.

The Teach Iowa Scholar Program (TIS) offers loan repayment assistance for a maximum of five years for teachers in designated shortage areas, including the areas of visual impairment, deaf or hard of hearing, mild-moderate disabilities, and school counseling.

This report analyzes teacher shortage data in Illinois, including longitudinal data that demonstrates critical shortage areas, and identifies promising approaches to alleviating shortages in these areas, such as special education.

This infographic provides a current overview of educator retention, turnover, caseloads and workforce gaps in the State of Idaho.

This incentive program offered by the Hawai’i State Department of Education aims to retain teachers in state-identified critical shortage areas by providing annual pay differentials in addition to their current salaries. Through this program, special education teachers would receive a pay differential of up to $10,000 a year.