How States Across the Country Are Dealing With Teacher Shortages [psmag.com]

On the first day of the 2016–17 school year, the San Francisco Unified School District was short 38 teachers. That meant about 6 percent of the district's classroom vacancies had gone unfilled, forcing the district to rely on substitutes. Since then, SFUSD has turbo-charged its recruitment and retainment efforts, working to attract existing teachers and launching a number of new programs to establish a robust, predictable pipeline of qualified teachers.

"This was our deliberate response to the teacher shortage," says Daniel Menezes, SFUSD's chief human resources officer. "We realized that you have to do two things at once: You need to have a traditional, robust, meat-and-potatoes recruitment program ... and on the programming end, we also have to invest in a teaching pipeline portfolio that basically delivers a predictable number of teachers every year."

Thanks to the district's two-pronged approach, SFUSD schools opened last week with 99 percent of the district's classroom vacancies filled.

[For more on this story by DWYER GUNN, go to https://psmag.com/education/ho...th-teacher-shortages]