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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.

  • Research Reports    

When Learning Counts: Rethinking Licenses for School Leaders

Michael A. Copland

This report examines licensure content for principals to address whether the licenses that states require encompass the knowledge and skills principals need and how decisionmakers might rethink licenses.

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Why Do So Few Public School Districts Use Merit Pay?

Dan Goldhaber, Michael DeArmond, Dan Player, Hyung-Jai Choi

This working paper presents a principal-agent model in the context of public schools to help explain the factors that affect district decisions about merit pay.

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Brief: From Bystander to Ally: Transforming the District Human Resources Department

Christine Campbell, Michael DeArmond, Abigail Schumwinger

This research brief for the fourth report in CRPE’s leadership series looks at the behind-the-scenes work of the school district human resource department and the role it plays in implementation of reform strategies.

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From Bystander to Ally: Transforming the District Human Resources Department

Christine Campbell, Michael DeArmond, Abigail Schumwinger

Based on 49 interviews with district and school personnel, the report’s aim is to identify key issues that leaders in districts elsewhere can use to begin thinking about how they might make their HR office more efficient or effective.

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Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship

Bradley Portin, Paul Schneider, Michael DeArmond, Lauren Gundlach

This report, based on in-depth interviewes with educators, looks at the daily working lives of school leaders. It then asks what this implies for policy and leadership development.

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Brief: Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship

Bradley Portin, Paul Schneider, Michael DeArmond, Lauren Gundlach

This research brief summarizes the report Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship.

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An Impossible Job? The View From the Urban Superintendent’s Chair

Howard L. Fuller, Christine Campbell, Mary Beth Celio, James Harvey, John Immerwahr

Based on a survey and on interviews with superintendents from the nation’s largest urban districts, this study explores the working life of urban superintendents.

  • Research Reports    

From the Headlines to the Frontlines: The Teacher Shortage and its Implications for Recruitment Policy

Patrick J. Murphy, Michael DeArmond

This report suggests that even with the economic slowdown and the sense of relief from a pending teacher shortage, districts will continue to struggle to get and keep good teachers unless they make dramatic changes in the ways they recruit teachers.

  • Briefs    
  • Research Reports    

Brief: An Impossible Job? The View From the Urban Superintendent’s Chair

Howard L. Fuller, Christine Campbell, Mary Beth Celio, James Harvey, Abigail Schumwinger

This is the research brief for the second report in the Center’s leadership series; an examination of large-district school superintendents.

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A Matter of Definition: Is There Truly a Shortage of School Principals?

Marguerite Roza, Mary Beth Celio, James Harvey, Susan Wishon

This report finds that although some districts and areas are experiencing difficulties finding good school principals, there are far more candidates interested in assuming school leadership roles than there are principal vacancies to fill.

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