Form partnerships with community organizations, higher education, and CTE programs to expand emergency staffing and build the talent pipeline¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief recommends partnerships with child-serving organizations and postsecondary institutions to both broaden the emergency candidate pool and cultivate a longer-term talent pipeline. Suggestions include training existing staff from community-based organizations providing out-of-school-time programming to provide instructional supports or serve as substitutes, creating residencies with graduate schools of education, nursing, social work, counseling, or psychology, and leveraging career and technical education students for noninstructional support roles.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Training for community organization staff who may have limited instructional preparation; partnership agreements with postsecondary institutions

Constraints¶

• The brief notes out-of-school-time programs "may have limited staff who are trained to effectively provide instructional supports"

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students in high-need districts; students in pandemic-hit neighborhoods

Target Learning Goals¶

• Instructional support coverage and mental health service access during staffing shortages

Related Strategies¶

• Offer flexible part-time instructional roles to bring certified, nonemployed educators back into classrooms
• State policy actions across the career continuum: attract, prepare, and develop/support/retain educators
• Develop high-retention pathways — Grow Your Own programs and teacher residencies — to build and diversify local teacher supply
• Grow-your-own and recruitment initiatives: alternative programs, Minority Serving Institutions, high-school pipeline programs, and district human-capital efforts to diversify the teacher workforce.
• Use Teacher Residency Grant Program funds, braided with other sources, to recruit and retain a diverse teaching workforce
• Policy recommendations for sustaining and expanding teacher residencies

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Dana Chambers and Trang Hoang. (2022). How Region 2 States Are Leveraging Innovative Strategies to Address Critical Shortages of Education Personnel. Special Issues Brief. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED619872