Dig into SC TEACHER’s middle school research findings in this data visualization piece. With takeaways related to teacher retention, working conditions, and more, this synthesized report aims to help state, district, and school leaders better understand the particular obstacles middle school teachers and administrators face.
Rather than adding work to the plates of district and school administrators, learn how data from the SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey and the SC Teacher Exit Survey can serve as tools for tackling district strategic planning and school renewal planning. This guide is the first in our District Support Series, highlighting specific ways administrators and their teams can apply survey results to existing goals, mandates, and processes.
More than 23,000 teachers have now participated in the SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey pilot administration. This high level of engagement provides comprehensive insights into teachers’ perceptions of working conditions throughout South Carolina. Read the info-brief for a state-level glimpse into district and teacher participation, plus a look into the background of the survey.
To track trends in South Carolina teacher retention, the research team analyzed data from 80 districts over the past six years. This report addresses how retention rates differ across school organizational levels and by school factors (e.g., principal tenure and geographic locale), offering critical insights and context into the stability and variability of teacher retention in the state.
This overview on South Carolina teacher retention trends shares takeaways from the full 2022–23 report. Investigating how retention rates differ across school organizational levels and by school factors like principal tenure offers critical context into teacher retention in the state. For more information, read the full 2022–23 retention report.
This info-brief analyzes the daily challenges teachers face most impacting their effectiveness, satisfaction, and ability to remain in the profession. Using data and perspectives from the 2023 SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey and guidance from the Proviso 1.114 Task Force Report, we’re learning more about teachers’ highest concerns and revising the survey to better understand teacher experiences.
This infographic uses 2023 SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey data to dig deeper into perspectives of new teachers. SC TEACHER’s 2022–23 Teacher Exit Survey signaled new teachers as a critical focus for retention efforts. What can we learn about keeping new teachers in the profession from those that participated in the working conditions survey?
This report builds off of the 2023 SC Teacher Working Conditions Survey to better understand nuances in teacher perceptions by location. Using National Center for Educations Statistics (NCES) designations of “town” and “rural,” key questions investigate how school profiles and working conditions vary within these categories to potentially inform distinct improvement strategies.
The SC Teacher Exit Survey collects information from public K-12 classroom teachers not renewing their teaching contracts. The survey is designed to offer better insights into how working conditions relate to teachers’ decisions to either teach in another school district or leave the classroom. This year’s report highlights results for the 2022-23 academic year and draws longitudinal comparisons with the 2021-22 results. Respondents include 1,192 teachers across 18 school districts who left their teaching positions at the end of the 2022-23 school year.
SC TEACHER published the first teacher workforce profile report in September 2020, drawing upon statewide education data from the 2018-2019 academic year to examine key demographics of the teachers across our state, with consideration of extant factors such as the geographic context of the districts (urban or rural) and average poverty level (lower or higher poverty) within the school.
This third workforce profile report utilizes statewide educational data from the 2021-2022 academic year to draw comparisons with the United States and the 2022 workforce profile report. The results provide a more thorough understanding of dissimilarities within the South Carolina teacher workforce, especially in high-poverty schools and non-suburban communities.
Insights include how teacher demographics vary in relationship to more specific categories of school location (city, suburb, town, rural) and the percentage of students in poverty at the school. The report also examines differences found in the teacher workforce of high-poverty schools across locations.
