Make school-level educator diversity data publicly available and easy to interpret so stakeholders can act on it¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief recommends that states, as keepers of state data systems, collect and share useful and timely educator workforce data that is "publicly available and easily accessible so stakeholders can make targeted, strategic workforce decisions at the school, district, and state level." Meaningful data includes annual school-level racial demographics of the educator workforce in a dashboard, school report cards, or a state report, plus candidate entry and completion data by race for preparation programs and retention data disaggregated by race/ethnicity.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Data should be publicly available and easily accessible, including school-level breakdowns and dashboards

Constraints¶

• Tennessee currently posts only district-level workforce demographics and state-level retention data, which the brief rates as partially meeting the criteria

Target Learners¶

• all P-12 students in the state

Target Learning Goals¶

• increasing student access to diverse teachers through actionable workforce data

Related Strategies¶

• Publish school-level educator race/ethnicity data and program-completer and retention data on state dashboards
• Set measurable, time-bound goals for school leader diversity and make diversity data publicly visible
• Six state strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce, from data visibility through COVID-relief investment
• Six state-level strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Educator Diversity State Profile: Tennessee. (2020). EdTrust. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED622856