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Review of 'So Hard, but So Rewarding:' How School System Leaders are Scaling up Strategic School Staffing Models

Think Twice - Jul 11, 2024

Publisher/Think Tank - Center on Reinventing Public Education

Author(s) - Lisa Chu, Lydia Rainey, & Steven Weiner

Following the pandemic, pervasive challenges have plagued the teaching profession, including teacher shortages, burnout, job dissatisfaction, and attrition. A new report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education proposes what it calls "strategic school staffing models" as a solution, though its evidence for this conclusion is lacking.

Reviewer(s) - Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Stonehill College

In her review of "So Hard, But So Rewarding:" How School System Leaders Are Scaling Up Strategic School Staffing Models, Stonehill College professor and Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies Elizabeth Stringer Keefe finds that its sweeping recommendations are disproportionate to the study's quite limited research evidence.