Supporting and Sustaining Teachers

What We Do

We support state and district clients and other partners in using evidence to design, implement, and improve their teacher workforce policies and practices through data analytics, research, evaluation, and technical assistance.

Modernizing Teacher Preparation and Pathways

Promoting sustainable pathways into teaching through policies that improve affordability, we increase opportunities for clinical practice and broaden access through certification reciprocity.

Leveraging Educator Workforce Analytics to Strengthen Talent Systems

Working with states and districts to leverage analytics, we help to improve implementation and coherence across talent initiatives and meet recruitment and retention goals.

Supporting, Sustaining, and Retaining Teachers

We promote teacher leadership, effective working conditions, and evidence-based professional learning. 

Improving Teacher Compensation

We support education leaders in navigating complex policy and fiscal contexts to improve teacher compensation. 

Increasing Educator Diversity

We work with state, district, and educator preparation program partners to promote inclusive and culturally responsive and sustaining strategies for improving educator diversity.

Our Approach

We provide capacity building for state and local education agencies and other organizations interested in growing knowledge, skills, and practice to build and sustain a diverse, well-prepared teacher workforce. Drawing on our high-quality evaluations and our research studies, we address challenges about and inform the effective development and sustainability of teacher workforce programs, policies, and practices.

Our technical assistance services are grounded in adult learning theory and improvement science to support education leaders in drawing upon the best available data and evidence to strengthen teacher workforce policy and program implementation.