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🚨 Mark your calendars for March 11, 2025! 🚨 Join us for the #SPARCCenter Launch Event to strengthen the special educator workforce. 🎯 Get insights on cross-state analyses, upcoming research, and leadership strategies. 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/SPARCLaunch

Glad to see our teacher labor market paper out in the wild! 🧵 1/n School District Job Postings and Staffing Challenges Throughout the Second School Year During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Dan Goldhaber, Nate Brown, Nathaniel Marcuson, Roddy Theobald, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Our new City of São Paulo study shows targeted teacher incentives cut turnover by 30% in hard-to-staff schools & boosted student scores. Smart policy with real impact in Brazil's largest city. publications.iadb.org/en/impact-mone… With @LeonardoRosa Mateus Rodrigues

Even more evidence for why student teacher placements matter. Alignment between training and teaching environments and effective mentor teachers are crucial.

When Hawai'i raised special education teacher salaries by $10k, shortages decreased—largely due to gen ed teachers moving to open special education positions. New paper by Roddy Theobald Zeyu Xu Allison Gilmour, PhD Lisa Lachlan-Hache Elizabeth Bettini Nathan Jones bit.ly/4hRuMXp

📢 The CALDER Conference is just FOUR weeks away! Join us on Wed., 3/12 in Arlington for a one-day meeting featuring research from CALDER experts & discussion between researchers, policymakers & practitioners. #CALDER2025 View the agenda & register here: caldercenter.org/events/16th-an…

Five years later, what have we learned about student recovery & teacher labor markets since COVID? We'll explore the latest evidence at Session I of #CALDER2025 with new research from our CALDER experts & insight from The 74's Kevin Mahnken. Register👉 bit.ly/3En3lGk

See below for a thread by SPARC Center co-director @roddytheobald on a new CALDER Center working paper on teacher supply and demand in WA after the pandemic. They find that the supply of new special education teachers is not keeping up with demand.

Check out the full working paper on teacher supply & demand in Washington state following the pandemic from Dan Goldhaber, Grace Falken, & Roddy Theobald here: caldercenter.org/publications/s…

The #SPARCCenter now has a website! 🎉 Check it out for a wealth of resources, groundbreaking research, and a community committed to enhancing the special education workforce. Join us in making a difference! 🔗 sparccenter.org

New CALDER paper by Zeyu Xu & Ben Backes finds that in 2-year colleges in KCTCS, HS GPA is a stronger predictor of gateway course success than test scores-- though neither has very strong predictive power alone. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4iNTibV

Really excited to see this paper out in the world! We all know teacher turnover is bad, but this paper quantifies two really important facts: 1) teacher turnover is bad for all students; and 2) special education teacher turnover is especially bad for students with disabilities.