From Candidate to Classroom: Research-Based Practices for Recruiting and Hiring Highly-Effective Teachers
Category: Staffing, Finance, and Operations
While a large literature demonstrates that school turnaround can improve performance, impacts on teacher retention are more ambiguous. We examine the impact of Michigan’s turnaround policy on teacher turnover before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Event study findings show limited immediate effects on teacher turnover, but significant and substantively large decreases in school-level turnover in the third implementation year. Findings were more complex for turnover at the district and state levels. Returning teachers appeared to respond more positively to the turnaround intervention than new-to-district teachers, for whom turnover increased after the intervention. Teacher survey data offer suggestive evidence that working conditions improvements may have contributed to reduced turnover in turnaround schools.
Keywords
school turnaround, teacher turnover
Education level
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/3bcc-c477
