Challenges
Teacher Leadership
Prestige
Catalyst
school leaders' responsibility for creating positive work environments
This challenge is a catalyst, meaning it is one of the most strategic and efficient areas for creating impact and, if solved, would have outsized positive effects across the system.
Full Challenge: The number of districts that hold school leaders accountable for creating positive work environments.
Challenge Description: Districts typically do not require that their school leaders responsible create positive work environments that promote STEM teacher recruitment and retention.
Progress
Get the Facts Out: Teaching, The Best Kept Secret!
Watch "Get the Facts Out: Teaching, The Best Kept Secret!", a recorded "Steal This" presentation. Did you know that teachers in the United States rate...
Teacher Forum Talks: Teachers Taking Initiative, Finding their Voice, and Seeking Community Partnerships
December 16, 2019 The 100Kin10 Teacher Forum helps us keep a pulse on what’s happening “on the ground” in classrooms and schools across the county....
Teacher Forum Talks: Work Environment Update
October 16, 2019 The 100Kin10 Teacher Forum helps us keep an ear to the ground on what’s happening inside schools and classrooms across the country....
Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and Students Thrive
Read our new report “Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and Students Thrive”, an analysis of the research surrounding teacher work...
Why is school culture top of mind for teachers around the country?
July 13, 2018 The 100Kin10 Teacher Forum is the vehicle that enables 100Kin10 to infuse the priorities and work of the network with what STEM...
It’s More Than Schedules: Teacher Collaboration and Innovative Instruction
June 1, 2018 We launched the 100Kin10 Teacher Forum to get a better pulse on what’s happening in schools and classroom across the country, directly...
"I finally began to understand that teaching is not 'settling'"
“Hi, I’m Amanda. I attend Colorado School of Mines and am majoring in Engineering Physics.” That’s how I introduced myself over and over – during job...
Teaching is devalued by cultural norms.
Published July 2017. The nation is experiencing a comprehensive shortage of highly qualified teachers in many districts across the country.
Many schools lack opportunities for teacher leadership.
Published July 2017. The complexities of the 21st century require a citizenry with the skills to think critically and conceptually about difficult...
"How do I get my administration to recognize that they have a valuable resource in me?"
I can be a leader or a follower, depending on what the situation demands. I started teaching in 1998 with the help of excellent mentors,...
The traditional school model discourages experimentation.
Published July 2017. A typical public school classroom in the United States looks much the same in 2017 as it did in the mid-19th century: A teacher...
STEM professors often devalue PK-12 teaching and do not encourage STEM students to pursue the profession.
Published July 2017. Among the most prominent issues When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1954, the United States began a mad dash to prepare more...
There is no commonly-agreed upon trajectory for teacher professional growth.
Published July 2017. Currently, there exists a plethora of ways and reasons that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers...
Teachers' voices are regularly absent from conversations about their professional growth.
Published July 2017. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs are expected to...
Teaching lacks financial incentives.
Published July 2017. The demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills in the private and public sector is high, and the...
Teachers lack collaborative work environments.
Published July 2017. For K–12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching to be an attractive career choice for STEM college...