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Teacher Retention in Maricopa County

Teacher retention continues to be a pressing educational issue nationwide and increased rates of turnover tend to negatively impact student outcomes. Strategic human capital management practices that target improvements in administrative support can be an important mechanism for retaining teachers in schools and districts. This multi-year partnership between REL West and Arizona’s Maricopa County School Superintendent’s office (MCSS) will refine and study MCSS’s Stay Interview strategy, a retention improvement strategy aimed at improving workplace conditions to help districts address teacher attrition.

Current Projects

REL West is supporting the Maricopa County School Superintendent’s Office through a coaching project to help them standardize and refine the application of its Stay Interviews. The Stay Interview is a teacher retention strategy to better understand the root causes of teacher retention in a district. It is being implemented across several districts in Maricopa County. REL West will help improve knowledge of data-gathering tools, processes, and protocols as part of the Stay Interview process, and build capacity for using evidence for continuous improvement around teacher retention.

To address issues of teacher retention in Maricopa County, this applied research study will help evaluate the effectiveness of the Stay Interview Intervention, which is being used by the Maricopa County School Superintendent’s Office to increase early career teacher retention. The quasi-experimental study will be conducted in a subset of districts in Maricopa County and will use a school-level matched comparison design.

No completed projects at this time.

Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: May 17, 2024
On May 17, 2024, REL West will meet with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 4 of phase 3 of the "Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention" project. During this session, participants will complete...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: February 08, 2024
On February 8, 2023, REL West met with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 2 of phase 2 of the Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention Partnership. During this session, participants learned how to organize...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: November 07, 2023
On November 7, 2023, REL West met with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 1 of phase 2 of the Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention Partnership. During this session, participants learned the process...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: September 20, 2023
On September 20, 2023, REL West will meet with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 4 of the Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention Partnership. During this session, participants will revise and standardize...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: August 21, 2023
On August 21, 2023, REL West met with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 3 of the Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention Partnership. During this session, participants will revise and standardize...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: August 08, 2023
On August 8, 2023, REL West will meet with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 2 of the Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention Partnership. During this session, participants will analyze data MCSS...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date: August 08, 2023
On August 8, 2023, REL West met with partners at Maricopa County School District (MCSD) for session 2 of the Increasing Capacity to Implement District-Level Teacher Retention Partnership. During this session, participants analyzed data MCSS collected...

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