Welcome to the Thinking Differently About… series from NCEE. This series offers a different perspective on things we think about a lot in education. It’s primarily for education system designers and is meant to inspire, while also presenting global policies and practices that provide insights into how to improve success for students in the United States.
The fourth brief in the series, Thinking Differently About Strategic Staffing, explores:
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Thinking differently about attracting and retaining teachers. What paths to advancement support teaching as a long life career? How do leading systems retain their teachers? How do good teachers become good leaders? What is the role of teacher compensation?
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Thinking differently about developing a strong pipeline for the profession. How do leading systems select and prepare teacher candidates for the classrooms of today and tomorrow and then transition them into classrooms?
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Thinking differently about professionalizing teaching. What role does a powerful professional community play in schools? How do you build a successful professional community for teachers?
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Thinking differently about enabling teacher success. How does the balanced use of teacher time enable teaching success? What role does access to high quality instructional resources play? How do systems make teaching easier?
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Thinking differently about resource optimization. How do sources of resources vary? How do systems use available resources strategically and efficiently?
For each topic in this series, we:
- Surface thought-provoking observations about ways these systems approach strategic staffing differently.
- Offer interesting examples of what global leaders do differently and how states and districts here at home are implementing similar strategies.
- Ask probing questions about the potential for thinking differently about strategic staffing and what the policy implications might be.
Click here to explore the other briefs in the Thinking Differently About… series.
