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Regional Collaborative for Strengthening the Educator Workforce
The Region 1 and Region 2 Comprehensive Centers are partnering to facilitate a Regional Collaborative for Strengthening the Educator Workforce. The Collaborative supports state education agency (SEA) teams across the Northeast to address educator workforce challenges—including teacher shortages—to ensure all students have equitable access to effective, qualified personnel. At an in-person convening in 2022, participants identified their states’ most pressing challenges, heard from peers about strategies being developed and implemented in each other’s states, and learned about evidence-based and promising talent management policies and practices. Informed by this exploration, teams were supported to craft a policy agenda, an implementation plan, or both for selected strategies to address identified challenges. Following the in-person convening, the Collaborative continued to support state teams by engaging them in a series of virtual cafés to address a common problem of practice—collecting, analyzing, and using data to inform their approaches to strengthening the educator workforce.
COVID-19 Recovery and Strategic Use of American Rescue Plan Funds
This virtual workshop was cosponsored by the Region 2, 13, and 15 Regional Comprehensive Centers in collaboration with the National Comprehensive Network. Attended by SEAs from across the country, the workshop was designed to discuss the implications of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, assist SEAs in strategic planning with featured examples of states and territories’ approaches, and provide opportunities for SEA-specific and cross-SEA planning and discussion. A discussion and planning tool was provided for SEA use.