by PRP Group, on 11/07/2024
In New York City Public Schools, providing a pathway to leadership has proven to be a powerful teacher retention tool. Districtwide, teacher leaders are 94 percent more likely to stay in their school than similar teachers who don’t hold leadership roles. At the recent Deeper Learning NY conference (DLNY) hosted by Ulster BOCES, we shared New York’s strategic approach to teacher leadership, called Teacher Career Pathways (TCP), with leaders representing a wide array of districts from around the country. Our session was a half-day Deep Dive, so we had the time to move from ideas to action at the conference itself. After we laid out the structure of TCP, we discussed how each district could take the teacher leadership model we shared and activate it in keeping with the conference’s theme of “Leading for Deeper Learning.” Here are some of the key points of the conversation.
