Elmhurst Community Prep, a middle school in Oakland, loses a significant number of teachers every year. Susanna Loeb's research helps to put this turnover in a national context, and Stephanie Ullman MA ’15 explains why she chose to teach there.
How can a principal in East Oakland make sure he has teachers for the coming school year?
This story traces the efforts of Kilian Betlach to recruit excellent teachers who will be committed to his small middle school. It explains how tight the labor market for teachers is, with supply shrinking and demand increasing. It covers the tradeoffs that schools must consider, when they are fortunate enough to have a choice.
It includes comments from Susanna Loeb, the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford, about the effects of teacher turnover, and has a section on the school's decision about whether to hire Stephanie Ullman, a recent graduate of the Stanford Teacher Education Program, as a history teacher.
Read the story at the Atlantic website.
For background on Susanna Loeb's research on teacher turnover, here's another story that also has a link to one of her papers on the subject.
