current PROJECT
Resources and Technical Assistance for Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) to Strengthen the Educator Workforce
PARTICIPATING STAFF: Dr. Molly Garner Carroll
This project supports several areas of inquiry and capacity-building related to the Wisconsin educator workforce:
R10CC is collaborating with DPI to develop the first inventory of “grow your own” programs being implemented by Wisconsin educator preparation programs (EPPs), local school districts, and other partners to help address staffing shortages and diversify the state’s educator workforce. This inventory will serve at least two important purposes: first, it will provide the first known repository of such programs in Wisconsin, allowing for networking and collaboration; and second, it provides a foundation for identifying future evaluation opportunities looking at both the implementation and impact of these initiatives.
R10CC is providing technical support to DPI by analyzing results from the agency’s fall 2023 hiring survey, which asked the state’s nearly 450 local school districts about their current hiring needs and their perceptions of both the quality and quantity of applicant pools for teaching, administrative, and student support positions.
R10CC has continued to support DPI’s Educator Preparation Report annual report series, which has expanded to include workforce participation trends (attrition, retention, and mobility) in addition to traditional metrics around how many educators graduate from the state’s approved EPPs with different types of licensure.
R10CC is collaborating with the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance (WIRSA) to investigate specific aspects of educator labor markets in Wisconsin’s many rural districts, including grow your own initiatives and the pipeline of rural teachers (which EPPs they attended, attrition and mobility rates, trends in compensation, etc.)
R10CC has produced several policy briefs which have been posted to our website on topics including how many educators who graduate from Wisconsin’s EPPs are teaching in neighboring states (Illinois and Minnesota) and a descriptive profile of Wisconsin’s public school teachers and principals
- WI Department of Public Instruction
- Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance
- Wisconsin Association of School Personnel Administrators
Topics
Educator Workforce
Contacts
Project Resources
Profile of Wisconsin Principals (2000-2020)
Profile of Wisconsin Teachers (2000-2020)
Building and Learning from Grow Your Own Educator Initiatives in Rural Communities