Teacher retention: if you want to keep the best teachers, treat them like they are the best. Few teachers leave an environment where they feel valued, supported, appreciated, and treated like professionals.
@DrBradJohnson Same with all support staff and administrators as well! 😁
@DrBradJohnson That’s the problem. In union environment all the same. Don’t distinguish between good and bad
@DrBradJohnson I worked for many administrators who had no idea who was the best. Literally had one tell me "I made C's in math in school myself, but I don't think this is how kids learn math best"
@DrBradJohnson Amen to that! I took an $8,000 pay cut to move to another county where I am valued. I wish the state would uniformly instate a salary scale. @moh_choudhury
@DrBradJohnson Remove red tape. Reduce class sizes. Or the best will go. Simple. They are exhausted.
@DrBradJohnson If it is so critical to teacher retention, why is it never practiced? In fact it is the opposite that is practiced, with no apparent awareness of the need to value and retain teachers?
@DrBradJohnson Got out of teaching at age 57. 34 years. Tired of teaching ISTEP rather than Earth Science. Avoided having my pay for masters taken away.
@DrBradJohnson For the Admin folks out there—I learned this over 20 years as a military officer. If you don’t know who your racehorses are and fail to recognize them as such, they’ll slow down their pace to simply trot with the mules. If you acknowledge your studs, they’ll win races for you.
@DrBradJohnson And teacher assistant. You can’t run a school without them and they get paid nothing.