Talent Management System
Articles
How to Retain Effective Teachers through Teacher Leadership
Summary
Highly effective teachers are school systems’ best tools for helping students succeed. Retaining effective teachers requires schools and districts to implement specific strategies aimed at retention. There are many specialized paths that school systems can create for teachers’ various interests and strengths. This paper, from The Decade Plus Teaching Career, highlights three strategies for retaining the best teachers for a lifelong career in the classroom.
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District and building leadership teams might choose to read and discuss this paper and complete the reflection guide found in Supporting Resources in order to implement strategies for retaining effective teachers.
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McCann, C., Zuflacht, S., & Gilbert, T. (2015). How to retain effective teachers through teacher leadership. The Decade Plus Teaching Career.
How to Use ‘Stay Conversations’ to Keep Employees Engaged
Summary
Are you looking for low cost ways to retain staff? This article provides the what, why and how of stay conversations as a way to engage and retain staff. Stay conversations are conversations between the leader and teacher with the purpose of learning more about what is important in the workplace, interests, and aspirations of the teacher. The article outlines a process to conduct stay conversations as well as some potential stay conversation question types.
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This article may be used at multiple levels of the educational system. ISD consultants may use it to support districts in developing strategies for retaining teachers within the Talent Management system. A district might use the article to start conversations around low cost teacher retention strategies and ways to build and model relationships in the Talent Management system.
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Johnson, L. C. and C., & Johnson, L. C. and C. (2019, August 22). How to use ‘stay conversations’ to keep employees engaged. SHRM. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/employee-relations/pages/how-to-use-stay-conversations-to-keep-employees-engaged.aspx
Planning Teacher Stay Conversations. (n.d.). Tntp.org. Retrieved July 7, 2022, from https://tntp.org/teacher-talent-toolbox/view/planning-teacher-stay-conversations