Publish school-level educator race/ethnicity data and program-completer and retention data on state dashboards¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief recommends that state education agencies, as keepers of state data systems, make educator workforce data publicly available and easily accessible so stakeholders can make targeted workforce decisions. Massachusetts "posts school-level data on the racial demographics of the educator workforce on the state website" and posts candidate enrollment data for preparation programs, but the brief recommends adding program-completer racial breakdowns and "data on the retention rates of educators of color through a dashboard, on individual school reports cards, or through a state-developed report."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Data should be publicly available and easily accessible at school, district, and state levels

Constraints¶

• Massachusetts currently does not meet the completer-data or retention-data criteria, so the strategy is partly aspirational for that state

Target Learners¶

• P-12 students statewide

Target Learning Goals¶

• Making educator diversity data visible and actionable to stakeholders

Affordances¶

• Five Goal Educator Diversity Policy Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Make educator diversity data visible and actionable by reporting teacher diversity on state dashboards
• Set measurable, time-bound goals for school leader diversity and make diversity data publicly visible
• Expand multilingual workforce data and cross-system strategic planning to grow the supply of bilingual instructors
• Three state policy levers: modernize educator data systems, analyze BLA role entry and retention conditions, and build sustained regional infrastructure
• Six state-level strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce
• Set clear numeric educator-diversity goals at the state, district, and teacher preparation levels with public progress reporting
• Make school-level educator diversity data publicly available and easy to interpret so stakeholders can act on it

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Education Trust. (2020). Educator Diversity State Profile: Massachusetts. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED622850