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Teacher Workforce Innovation

At CRPE, we study how the teacher workforce can evolve to meet students’ changing needs and create more sustainable roles for educators. Our research explores new staffing models, including ASU’s Next Education Workforce™, that reimagine how adults collaborate in schools—shifting away from the one-teacher, one-classroom model toward team-based approaches that expand instructional capacity and support. We examine how these innovations can improve teacher retention, elevate the profession, and ensure that students have access to diverse expertise. By analyzing emerging models and their impact, we aim to understand how the education workforce can be redesigned to better serve both students and educators.

Parallel Patterns: Teacher Attrition in Charter vs. District Schools
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Parallel Patterns: Teacher Attrition in Charter vs. District Schools

Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond

This study explores the question of teacher turnover in charter schools by surveying newly hired teachers from both traditional and charter schools.

The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority-Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students
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The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority-Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students

Cristina Sepe, Marguerite Roza

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California, this analysis finds that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that “last in, first out” policies disproportionately affect these students and their schools.

Seniority Rules: Do Staffing Reforms Help Redistribute Teacher Quality and Reduce Teacher Turnover?
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Seniority Rules: Do Staffing Reforms Help Redistribute Teacher Quality and Reduce Teacher Turnover?

Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond, Dan Goldhaber

This paper finds that shifting from a seniority-based hiring system to a “mutual consent” hiring system leads to a short-term increase in turnover and inexperienced teachers, but after a few years the level of inexperienced teachers and turnover goes back to an uneven distribution across schools.

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