Topic: Educator Effectiveness

The Principal Effect

Jahana.Martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:05:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, educators emphasize the impact of strong leadership on schools. Effective principals can transform the teaching experience, while investing in leadership development helps build a workforce where teachers can thrive.

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Challenges of the Profession: Job Satisfaction

Jahana.Martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, an educator reflects on the importance of teachers valuing themselves, noting that fostering respect and satisfaction in the profession is essential to inspiring the next generation of educators.

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Challenges of the Profession: Development & Curriculum

Jahana.Martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:55:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, educators stress the need for meaningful professional development and the resources to put new ideas into practice.

Investing in Education Resources

Jahana.Martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:49:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, educators call attention to the funding challenges schools face. From classroom resources to support services and fair pay, they emphasize that expectations for teachers and students must be matched with the funding needed to meet them.

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Thoughts on Teacher Training and Development

Jahana.Martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:02:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, education professionals highlight the importance of instructional coaching and mentoring. Supporting new and experienced teachers through paid professional development can strengthen the workforce and help more educators succeed.

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Professional Pay for the Teaching Profession

Jahana.Martin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:45:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, education professionals discuss how increasing teacher pay has helped bring more applicants into the profession.

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Making Education a Competitive Career

Jahana.Martin — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:47:00 +0000

In this clip from SREB’s Teacher Workforce series, education professionals highlight the financial challenges schools face in attracting and retaining talented educators, especially those coming from higher-paying industries. Fair, livable compensation is critical to making education a viable, long-term career.

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Mentoring New Teachers

Jahana.Martin — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:51:00 +0000

Invest in Educators Series

This guide provides support for mentors and outlines best practices for teacher induction using the SREB Teacher Induction Framework.

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Pathways and Retention for New Teachers

Beth Day — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:20:00 +0000

Insights from Southern States

[image:17906, w50 image right] Early-career teachers are entering the profession via an expanding variety of pathways. Do certain pathways provide more support than others? Do some entry routes into teaching yield higher rates of teacher retention? Why has early career teacher retention dipped so low and what can we do to change that?

A research partnership between SREB and Vanderbilt University explores these questions and more by analyzing state administrative data, survey results, and teacher interviews across three states in the South.

Teacher Labor Markets Trends Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jahana.Martin — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:30:00 +0000

A Literature Review

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted many aspects of the education system, including teacher recruitment, retention and hiring. More than three years since schools first closed their doors, newly available data and research are beginning to provide insights into the ways that the pandemic changed the landscape of the teacher workforce.

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Educator Effectiveness is About Learning and Growth Opportunities

Veronica Johnson — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:20:00 +0000

And that should never end

Lessons learned from three years of work in 8 states

[image:8809, w35 image right] Providing real-time feedback and growth opportunities to teachers — the real purpose of educator effectiveness systems — means that school leaders have to understand and value the skills to be instructional leaders and be properly trained on those skills. In any career path, professionals need to know how they’re doing and need help honing their craft. Teaching is no different; teachers need a coach, they need feedback.

Improving Educator Feedback and Support: Lessons from Eight SREB States

Veronica Johnson — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:58:00 +0000

SREB partnered with eight state departments of education from 2015 to 2018 to transform how they supported the professional growth of teachers and administrators. This report summarizes how state departments invested grant funding, the impact of the investments on the states’ strategies and success, and key lessons from the states’ efforts and SREB’s grant process.

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In This Together: How States Foster Safe Learning Environments

Veronica Johnson — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:41:00 +0000

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As legislatures convene regular sessions, we at SREB have observed an uptick in bills focused on school safety. Some propose dramatic changes in the way school districts hire and train security personnel, develop emergency plans, or address students’ mental and emotional health. Others make technical changes to standing laws in order to lower the barriers districts face in creating safe learning environments.

How States Can Get Teacher Evaluation Systems Right

Torrie Haenszel — Wed, 16 May 2018 22:07:00 +0000

Insights from our partners at Education First

High-quality teacher evaluations are an important component of comprehensive systems to ensure that all students are being taught by effective teachers. From evaluations, districts and states can generate data that can positively impact teachers and students in numerous ways. This is why states have invested so much in them – since 2009, 37 states have updated their evaluation systems – and why they are so important to get right.

Putting TEACHERS Behind the Steering Wheel

Torrie Haenszel — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:51:00 +0000

Educator Effectiveness Spotlight

We partnered with leaders and educators from three school districts in Oklahoma to find out what happens when teachers are actually the ones behind the steering wheel. Here’s what we learned about empowering teachers to lead their own professional development.

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School Is My Happy Place

Torrie Haenszel — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:05:00 +0000

Educator Effectiveness Spotlight

Happy staff. Hardworking students. Supportive parents.

School culture matters. It affects teachers’ morale and instruction, parent engagement, and students’ behavior and learning. Developing and sustaining a positive school culture is hard — but one Florida elementary school has a lot of creative ideas for making it work.

The Tale of the Spoon

Torrie Haenszel — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:08:00 +0000

Closing the Achievement Gap One Utensil at a Time

The act of teaching is hard — but the ins and outs of being a teacher are hard too. When mentors work on professional growth goals without probing a teacher’s mindset or emotional health, skill development can become distracting, stressful and even counterproductive.

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EVALUATOR TRAINING: A GUIDE FOR STATES

Torrie Haenszel — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 01:00:00 +0000

A framework for developing and delivering a high-quality training program for the people who evaluate teachers

Feedback on Teaching: A Fresh Look

Torrie Haenszel — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:17:00 +0000

Three strategies for schools to establish and sustain practices that support better feedback and improved outcomes for teachers and students

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Student Surveys: A Fresh Look

Torrie Haenszel — Wed, 03 May 2017 17:50:00 +0000

A guide for states and districts interested in developing educator support for new approaches to student surveys

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