New Guide Offers Best Practices
for Recruiting, Retaining Teachers
Meeting the Challenges of Recruitment and Retention  (PDF, 1.6M, 79 pages) is the most comprehensive list ever compiled of strategies to recruit and retain teachers. This guide collects and reviews current literature on teacher recruitment and retention in one handy compendium.
It contains a list of rich and diverse programs and approaches that were designed and implemented throughout the country. These strategies or initiatives can be replicated individually or in combination, modified, or adapted depending on local needs and resources.
The book is divided into four sections:
Section I
This section describes local, state, and non-profit programs and initiatives that show promise of addressing teacher shortages. This section includes chapters on:
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Recruitment Strategies -- discusses the importance of developing a comprehensive recruitment plan, and suggests ways to develop a strong marketing and outreach campaign and to improve the hiring process. This chapter also focuses on programs that provide nontraditional routes into the profession and provides examples of financial incentives being used across the country to recruit new teachers.
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Retention Strategies -- discusses the need to prepare teachers adequately and to nurture new teachers, and provides examples of programs that are addressing these needs. This chapter also focuses on ways in which schools can improve the working environment for teachers and looks at how financial incentives can be used as a retention tool.
Section II
Section II describes NEA grants to local school districts.
Section III
focuses on efforts to recruit and retain members of minority groups.
Resources and Contacts
The final section presents a comprehensive listing of organizations, programs, and publications that address recruitment and retention issues.
Association staff and leaders can use this guidebook to collaborate with their schools districts on recruitment and retention strategies, work with legislators to develop policies for improving new teacher induction or incentive programs, and to develop proposals that build retention incentives into contract negotiations with school districts.
May 2003
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