Teaching Profession
Education news, analysis, and opinion about teachers as a workforce and policies affecting them.
See also: Salaries & Benefits, Job Satisfaction, New Teachers, Teacher Diversity, Unions, Teacher Evaluations
The State of Teaching
New national data on the teaching profession, vivid reporting from classrooms, and resources to help support this essential profession.
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Taking Care of Teachers
This report looks at the many ways stressors related to COVID-19 and racial inequities have affected the teacher workforce, strategies for self-care, and how school leaders and districts can help protect their teachers’ social and emotional well-being through the continued uncertainty.
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Social-Emotional Learning 2017
This special collection explores methods for avoiding burnout, reducing stress, and teaching cultural responsiveness.
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Helping New Teachers Thrive
This special report explores the challenges new teachers face, and what schools of education, districts, and other organizations are doing to help them succeed.
Teaching Profession Bilingual Teachers Are in Short Supply. How 3 Districts Solved That ProblemHelping bilingual paraprofessionals obtain bachelor's degrees and teaching credentials leads to more bilingual teachers, districts found.
Teaching Profession Opinion How I’m Keeping Ahead of Burnout: 4 Tips for TeachersAn English teacher shares her best advice for battling the long-haul blahs until spring break.
Teaching Profession Opinion Why Is the Nation Invested in Tearing Down Public Education?Education professor Deborah Loewenberg Ball argues that panic over test scores keeps us from building on the strengths of our children.
Teaching Profession Teachers Censor Themselves on Socio-Political Issues, Even Without Restrictive State LawsA new survey from the RAND Corporation found that two-thirds of teachers limit their instruction on political and social issues in class.
Teaching Profession 10 Major Challenges for Substitute TeachersSubstitute teachers want more support to do their jobs well. One state has identified their top concerns.
Teaching Profession What the Research Says How to Refresh a Dwindling Pipeline of STEM Teachers? Researchers Share StrategiesThe pool of science teachers is getting younger and less prepared than it once was.
Teaching Profession 'Never Stop Learning’: Inside the Club for Retired TeachersA club for retired teachers keeps lifelong educators connected to the young people in today's classrooms.
Teaching Profession Substitute Teachers Need Support, Too. See How One State Is HelpingSubstitute teachers often feel unsupported and underprepared. Here's how one state is trying to change that.
Teaching Profession Behind the Scenes With the Real Teachers of 'Abbott Elementary'These teachers fulfill two roles both as educators and caretakers who are responsible for enforcing California's child labor laws on set.
Teaching Profession It’s Tax Season, Teachers. See How to Save More MoneyExperts share multiple ways that educators may be able to incur savings at tax time.
Teaching Profession In Their Own Words 'Why Doesn't Everybody Want to Do This?': A New Teacher's Midyear ReflectionTwenty-two-year-old Saxon Brown talks honestly about the challenges and rewards he's encountered in his first year on the job.
Teaching Profession Here Are the 4 Finalists for National Teacher of the YearThe nation's top teaching award will be given to one of them in the spring.
Teaching Profession Opinion What Should Schools Do to Boost Teacher Pay?Hiking teacher pay is one issue that both progressives and conservatives can get behind.
Teaching Profession From Our Research Center Flu and COVID-19 Are Surging. Here’s How Educators Feel About Masking NowRespiratory illnesses are on the rise. Only 3 percent of educators say they regularly wear a mask at school.
Teaching Profession ‘Days Off Just Aren’t an Option’: Why Teachers Don’t Use Their Sick DaysMany say it’s more work to be absent, so it’s easier to show up sick.
