Teacher turnover

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Politics & Policy Politics & Policy

Whitmer to ask Legislature to fund scholarships and stipends for future teachers, but won’t resurrect $1.5 billion retention bonus proposal

Governor’s office to unveil budget Wednesday.

By Tracie Mauriello

A woman in a dress and wearing a mask raises her hand in front of a project screen while several people sit at desks and look at her.

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Work and learn: Michigan teacher certification program would mix theory with more on-the-job experience

Superintendents band together to try to alleviate teacher shortage

By Tracie Mauriello

Several students sit at desks in a large classroom. Two of them raise their hands while a teacher stands at the front of the room.

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MSU to shorten teacher preparation program from five to four years

Shortening teacher preparation programs will save MSU students $16,700 in tuition and get them into teaching jobs faster.

By Tracie Mauriello

A child wearing a backpack walks toward a school building. Other children and parents can be seen behind him.

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16 Michigan back-to-school stories with news you can use

The 2022-23 school year officially begins Tuesday across the state

By Ethan Bakuli

A woman teacher leads her classroom during a lesson, a student in the foreground raising their hand amongst other students in the class.

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Michigan programs provide route for second-career teachers. Are they rigorous enough?

Programs fast-track training, but some worry that they risk shortchanging students

By Tracie Mauriello

Seven high school students participate in a class discussion at their desks in a classroom with white walls decorated with maps and photographs of book covers.

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Short on teachers, Michigan schools try to grow their own

Giving high school students an early look at what it would be like to be at the front of the room — ‘warts and all’

By Tracie Mauriello

A teacher talks with three high school students who are sitting at their desks.

Teaching & Classroom Teaching & Classroom

Michigan’s teacher shortage: What’s causing it, how serious is it, and what can be done?

More than 60% of Michigan’s teaching workforce is over the age of 40, and the pipeline of new candidates is running low.

By Tracie Mauriello and Lori Higgins

Two math teachers plan upcoming lessons. They are sitting at a table behind a laptop. Both are wearing masks.

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Uncertified education majors could soon teach in Michigan

Lawmaker proposes putting uncertified college students in classrooms to alleviate a crippling teacher shortage.

By Tracie Mauriello

A teacher writes on a dry-erase board in a classroom. Math equations are written on the board to her left. Above the board are posters of Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the cast of the movie Hidden Figures.

Teaching & Classroom Teaching & Classroom

Michigan bill would reduce qualifications needed for some to substitute teach

Secretaries, bus drivers, and cafeteria workers could soon teach classes even if they don’t have a single college credit.

By Tracie Mauriello

Students raise their hand in a classroom.

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Michigan superintendent pushes reforms to get more teachers in classrooms

A teacher shortage in the state’s public schools has grown worse during the pandemic. State Supt. Michael Rice wants to make it easier to certify teachers while providing financial incentives to get more young people into the profession.

By Tracie Mauriello

As students work at their desks, a teacher writes on a board in a math class at Southeastern High School in Detroit, MI. Photo by Anthony Lanzilote/Chalkbeat; Taken June, 2019

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Amid high teacher turnover in Michigan, audit finds failings in teacher support systems

By Koby Levin

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Overcoming fear and disrespect to help students succeed

Cara Lougheed, Michigan’s 2019-20 Teacher of the Year, says educators faced disrespect and other challenges amid the coronavirus. But there is a way forward.

By Cara Lougheed

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Understand and support needs of future teachers

Brittany Perreault is a senior in Michigan State University’s College of Education. Here’s what she says can be done to support future teachers.

By Brittany Perreault

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Teachers need tools, resources, and time to help students with trauma

Tavia Redmond, a third-grade teacher, says educators need more resources and time to help students deal with trauma, especially after the coronavirus pandemic.

By Tavia Redmond

Inside Chalkbeat Inside Chalkbeat

How we used data to tell the human stories behind Michigan’s high teacher turnover rates

When Chalkbeat obtained a trove of data about the teacher workforce in Michigan, we saw an opportunity to tell the stories of the humans behind the numbers.

By Koby Levin and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee

Kaira Gandy, a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher at Detroit’s Bethune Elementary-Middle School, said she needs two weeks to get to know a new student. “Some of them are like Oliver Twist,” she said. “They are used to being orphans.”

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Too many Michigan teachers want to leave their classrooms. Here’s how to keep them.

Michigan has a teacher turnover problem that affects the education landscape for some students. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Here are some solutions.

By Koby Levin

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Q&A with MSU’s Katharine Strunk: Teacher retention starts with compensation, school leadership

Katharine Strunk, a Michigan State University researcher, has studied the teacher labor market in Michigan. Here’s what she says can increase retention.

By Chad Livengood Crain’s Detroit Business

Teachers Dwight and Anne Pierson in Dwight’s classroom at St. Johns High School on Friday, March 19, 2021. Also shot of them in the library, but they could not unmask because others were using the library. Dwight uses a headset when teaching virtual classes. Anne retired from Fowler High School last year. (Dale G Young, 2021)

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‘COVID has tipped the scales’: Teacher retirements in Michigan up 44% since August

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted more Michigan teachers to retire, stirring fears of an exodus schools will struggle to deal with.

By Chad Livengood Crain’s Detroit Business

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