Let's Keep Them In the Building! Principals' Perspective on Retaining Teacchers
Proposal Format
20-minute Presentation
Track Choices
Navigating the Change and Reinventing the Future
Abstract
This presentation examines what principals are doing in response to teachers leaving education. Our main question for the study was, what are principals doing to keep teachers in the profession. What are the barriers they face and what is working to retain teachers? A survey was sent out to one large district in South Carolina and those responses are presented.
Keywords
disruption; teacher retention
Speaker Bio
Dr. Suzanne Horn and Dr. Lee Hunter are professors in the Spadoni College of Education and Social Sciences. Dr. Horn teaches in the Middle School, MAT, and PhD program at Coastal Carolina University. Dr. Hunter teaches in the PhD and the Educational Leadership program at Coastal Carolina University.
Let's Keep Them In the Building! Principals' Perspective on Retaining Teacchers
Penny Hall, 310
This presentation examines what principals are doing in response to teachers leaving education. Our main question for the study was, what are principals doing to keep teachers in the profession. What are the barriers they face and what is working to retain teachers? A survey was sent out to one large district in South Carolina and those responses are presented.