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district leadership  |  teacher retention

increasing teacher agency leads to better decisions & happier teachers

as students across the county prepare for the start of a new school year, conversations about how to address our national teacher shortage are becoming more frequent and urgent. many educators are calling for this conversation to be rebranded as a “teacher walkout” to highlight that teachers are leaving the field as a way to protest a system not built to empower them as decision-makers and innovators. this shift in language – from “teacher shortage” to “teacher walkout” – illuminates a key design element that districts can leverage proactively to respond to retention challenges: teacher agency.

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