Six state strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce, from data visibility through COVID-relief investment¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief's policy scan organizes state action around six strategies: making educator diversity data visible and actionable, setting clear state and district goals, investing in educator preparation programs, targeting resources to districts and schools for recruiting and hiring a diverse workforce, investing in retention through improved working conditions and growth opportunities, and using federal COVID-related relief funds. Each strategy is rated against printed criteria on a three-level scale from "Meets all or most of the requirements within the goal" down to "Meets one or no requirements within the goal."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• State education agencies collect and share useful and timely educator workforce data that is publicly available and easily accessible so stakeholders can make targeted, strategic workforce decisions

Constraints¶

• Recruitment efforts are compromised when districts and schools have difficulty retaining teachers of color, per the brief

Target Learners¶

• K-12 public and charter school students in Pennsylvania

Target Learning Goals¶

• Equitable student access to a racially diverse, high-quality educator workforce

Related Strategies¶

• Make school-level educator diversity data publicly available and easy to interpret so stakeholders can act on it
• Six state policy strategies for increasing the racial diversity of the educator workforce
• Use attrition findings to inform staff retention efforts aligned with Pennsylvania's educator workforce strategy

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• The Education Trust. (2022). Educator Diversity State Profile: Pennsylvania. https://edtrust.org/educator-diversity/