TQ Resources

Recruitment & Retention

Every Child Deserves Our Best: Recommendations from North Carolina's National Board Certified Teachers on How to Support and Staff High-Needs Schools (February 2006)

New Teachers’ Experiences of Hiring: Preliminary Findings from a Four-State Study (A paper by Edward Lui of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2003)

New Teachers Leaving at a Faster Rate (A story from the Raleigh News & Observer)

Recruiting and Retaining National Board Certified Teachers in Hard-to-Staff, Low-Performing Schools: Silver Bullets or Smart Solutions
(May 2005)

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools (An Issue Brief by Barnett Berry and Eric Hirsch for the NGA Center for Best Practices, October 2005)

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Alabama: Educators on What It Will Take to Staff All Classrooms with Quality Teachers (February 2006)

Recruiting Math and Science Teachers: Barnett Berry Speaks to the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century (March 7, 2000)

Recruiting Quality Teachers for Mathematics, Science, and Special Education (A report from the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2006)

Recruiting Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: Solutions for North Carolina and the Nation (October 2001)

Recruiting Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools: Solutions for the Southeast and the Nation (January 2002)

Recruiting Teachers for the 21st Century: The Foundation for Educational Equity (by Linda Darling-Hammond and Barnett Berry)

Recruitment and Retention: A series of briefs prepared by SECTQ for the Hunt Institute

• Recruiting Quality Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools
• Induction and Mentoring
• Lateral Entry
• School Leadership Supporting Teacher Retention
• Increasing Teacher Supply
• Teacher Working Conditions

Recruitment and Retention Strategies in a Regional and National Context (This report is extrapolated from a larger report originally written as part of a marketing plan for recruiting and retaining teachers in Kentucky, March 2003)

Recruitment Lessons for the Southeast (BestTQ Vol. 1, No. 8, Jan. 2002)

Staying Power: What We Must Do to End the Teacher Recruitment Crisis (Threshold Spring 2004 -- A Web-Based Publication of Cable in the Classroom)

Support Systems: Quality Induction and Mentoring Programs Can Help Recruit and Retain Excellent Teachers -- And Save Money
(Threshold, Spring 2004)

Tapping the Potential: Retaining and Developing High Quality New Teachers (A Report from the Alliance for Excellent Education)

Teacher Retention (One in a series of briefs on recruitment & retention prepared by CTQ for the Hunt Institute)

The Teachers That Oklahoma Students Deserve: Recommendations from National Board Certified Teachers and Administrators on How to Support and Staff High-Needs Schools (A report by Barnett Berry and Melissa Rasberry, with Kevin McDonald, Dec. 2006)

Value of Teacher Incentives Questioned (An Article from the Raleigh News & Observer)

Wanted: A National Teacher Supply Policy for Education: The Right Way to Meet the "Highly Qualified Teacher" Challenge (A Paper by Linda Darling-Hammond in Education Policy Analysis Archives, September 2003)

Where Have All the Teachers Gone? The Costs of Teacher Turnover in ACORN Neighborhood Schools in Chicago (A Report by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, June 2003)