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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.

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Eliminating the Achievement Gap: A White Paper on How Charter Schools Can Help District Leaders

Robin Lake

Drawing from the experiences of high-performing charter school networks, this white paper examines why districts struggle to close the achievement gap, what portfolio district leaders can find when they look outside the traditional system for gap-closing solutions, and how new schools are able to do what traditional schools have not.

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Will Seniority-Based Layoffs Undermine School Improvement Efforts in Washington State?

Robin Lake, Michael DeArmond, Cristina Sepe

This brief examines why policies known as “last in, first out” may disproportionately affect schools receiving federal School Improvement Grants.

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How Do Charter Schools Get the Teachers They Want?

Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond

This paper examines charter school leaders’ deliberate strategies to hire teachers who will boost student achievement and contribute to a thriving school culture.

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What Does Washington State Get for Its Investment in Bonuses for Board Certified Teachers?

Jim Simpkins

Washington State is set to spend nearly $100 million in the next two years on pay bonuses for teachers who receive national board certification.

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Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success

Betheny Gross

This final report from the four-year Inside Charter Schools initiative examines how charter schools differentiate themselves from traditional public schools to attract students and families and how they recruit and manage their staff.

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BRIEF – Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success

Betheny Gross

This brief provides a summary of the four-year Inside Charter Schools project’s final report, Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success.

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BRIEF – You’re Leaving? Sustainability and Succession in Charter Schools

Christine Campbell

This brief summarizes the findings and recommendations from a larger report, which finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.

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The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers

Noah Wepman, Marguerite Roza, Cristina Sepe

This brief describes how a different method of supplying benefits to employees might work for districts: cafeteria plans. While typical school district plans offer a one-size-fits-all package of benefits to employees, cafeteria plans allow employees to customize their benefits within a given cost.

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Talent Management in Portfolio Districts

Christine Campbell, Michael DeArmond

A look at New York City and Washington, D.C., this paper shows how portfolio—and perhaps traditional—districts can transform talent management from a bureaucratic staffing system into a core leadership function.

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You’re Leaving? Sustainability and Succession in Charter Schools

Christine Campbell

This report, part of a four-year study of charter school teachers and leaders, finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.

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