Learning Teams: Creating What's Next

Released on April 7, 2009

According to a new NCTAF report, and a national survey of teachers and principals, the nation stands to lose half of its teachers to retirement over the next decade. The report finds that over 50 percent of the nation's principals and teachers are Baby Boomers. To avoid a potential school staffing crisis, NCTAF recommends the concept of Cross-Generational Learning Teams, in which experienced veterans could stay in teaching longer by working with new teachers, providing mentoring, coaching and instructional assistance that will help to improve student performance and reduce attrition rates for new teachers.

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Read the Report:  Learning Teams: Creating What's Next

Appendices: 

• Snapshot of State-by-State Demographics of the Teaching Workforce
• NCTAF Survey Results (Conducted by Public Opinion Strategies)

Other Resources:

• NCTAF "Call to Action" on Learning Teams
• NCTAF on YouTube! Watch our latest animated slide show!
• Press Release on Learning Teams:Creating What's Next
• Tom Carroll & Elizabeth Foster's Presentation from the April 7, 2009 Release at the National Press Club.
• Read more about the NCTAF Cross-Generational Learning Teams Initiative!
• See examples of successful learning teams and learn more about the NCTAF/PBS/MetLife Foundation Learning Teams Initiative.
• Take a look at the slides from the September 2, 2009 Learning Teams Webinar, lead by Elizabeth Foster.