Center on Great Teachers and Leaders
Building bridges from today's educator workforce challenges to a future where every student can thrive while learning from a talented and diverse educator workforce.
Building an Educator Workforce for Today's Challenges
Prioritizing an Integrated Approach to Educator Shortages and Workforce Diversity
Explore our two latest briefs and infographic to work smarter, not harder on two educator workforce challenges that often get addressed separately.
Strengthening the educator workforce to meet the needs of today's classrooms requires a deliberate effort to prioritize and integrate evidence-based strategies, policies, and practices that achieve educational equity.
The Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center) works side-by-side with states, educator preparation programs, districts, and community partners.
Our team can help build a bridge from today's unique educator workforce challenges to a future where every school and every student can thrive by learning from a talented, diverse educator workforce.
Our Work
What We Do
We offer three tiers of services—from expert consultation to full-service supports—that we tailor to help states and their districts select and implement evidence-based, talent management practices.
Why We Do It
We believe that promoting educational equity, making data-informed decisions, leading with engagement and belonging, and connecting peers around common goals are core principles for achieving transformational, sustained change in educator workforce policies and practices at the national, state, and local levels.
Where We Work
We have supported all 50 states and territories, multiple regional centers, and many districts, often through cross-state and district collaborations. We are experts at bringing key brokers to the table to improve educational opportunities, close achievement gaps, and ensure all students receive high-quality instruction.
Featured Project
National Collaborative on Educator Workforce Shortages and Diversity
To support states in addressing urgent educator workforce challenges, from 2022-2024, the Center engaged three state teams from Hawai'i, Ohio, and Louisiana to participate in a National Collaborative. This two-year, data-driven facilitated coaching process helped cross-agency, state teams understand the root causes of shortages and gaps in educator workforce diversity and find solutions that are equity-focused and built for sustainability.
What is Your Educator Workforce Challenge?
You know the unique strengths and unique challenges your schools face in attracting and retaining a diverse educator workforce.
The GTL Center partners with your team to help capitalize on unique strengths while using data, research, and stakeholder insights to tackle your hardest workforce challenges head on. Our services center on high-impact, evidence-based approaches that transform students' access to great teachers and leaders.
We offer three tiers of services:
Exploring: Short-term engagements that build your knowledge and expertise through expert consultation, subject matter expertise for conferences or meetings, event presentations, and workshops.
Investing: Multi-day, on-site or virtual sessions to support your team in selecting evidence-based interventions, early implementation planning, continuous improvement processes.
All-In: Long-term, on-the-ground supports for program planning, piloting, continuous improvement, and program evaluation, including train-the-trainer services.
The GTL team brought a high level of attentiveness to our district's needs and nuanced understanding of the regional context, making it a true collaboration and thought partnership.
- DC Office of State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) Staff Member.
