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The Teacher Salary Project

The latest teaching profession data from Pew Research Center is out! It's chock full of new (and sobering) findings - including that the majority of teachers are dissatisfied with their salaries, by far the greatest source of job dissatisfaction. Join us (and the world's top-performing school systems) in turning this around! https://lnkd.in/gHuCRYp5

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Ms. Ellen, thank you for sharing this survey. I was a teacher for 11.5 years. For the most part, I enjoyed teaching. I want to emphasize that this was a survey, not a comparison of teacher job satisfaction to other persons job satisfaction, pay , and so forth. Not the same thing. What the survey can do is guide educational leaders in designing schools into spaces where all teachers can thrive and enjoy their work. Right now many schools are set up on schedules, all based on time. The structure is very 20th century. I taught high school the bulk of my teaching career. Only one school I worked at had a very nice concept. It was based on BIG picture learning. Three days a week, we had academics. The other two days students had to find internships (paid or unpaid), volunteer experiences, or jobs related to their future goals. At the end of the semester students provided an exhibition presentation on their experiences. Students who had not found experiences outside of school on Tuesday and Thursday focused came to school and received helped on interviewing skills, resume writing, job searching, career exploration, or if they needed to work on their credit hours they spent time in credit recovery.

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Joshua Taton, Ph.D.

Learning Designer ♦ Strategic Consultant ♦ Innovation Expert

6mo

It would be helpful to overlay this with the percentage of people in other jobs who are satisfied with their colleagues, supervisors, salaries, etc. Very hard to know without a valid comparison, if this is typical or atypical.

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Hayley Spira-Bauer

Energizer Bunny Catalyst & Communicator

6mo

Just read this report not five minutes ago and felt my chin drop.

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Greg Rockhold, Ph.D.

Former NASSP Board of Directors member, Director of Programs with REC7 and Hobbs Schools, and Author.

6mo

Sobering data - states better wake up! This data is why we have a "teacher shortage," which is not improving. It is time to use Community Colleges to offer a BA in Teaching.

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