4: Perhaps most importantly, beginning teachers with TA experience have significantly higher retention rates.

Overall, this study highlights that former TAs are making positive contributions to NC schools. These findings have implications for district recruitment, hiring, and support efforts.

3: Early career teachers with TA experience have similar evaluation ratings and value added estimates as other early career teachers. Among early career teachers with an emergency teaching license, former TAs are more effective.

2: Former TAs possess many characteristics valued by districts. For example, over 50% of beginning teachers with TA experience are a person of color. Nearly 20% have a special education teaching license.

1: We found that former TAs make up a meaningful percentage of the beginning teacher workforce. Over a 3 yr period, 17% of beginning teachers in NC had worked as a TA first.

Lastly, interns moved into a school administrator position in a high need school more quickly if they interned in a high need school (even accounting for this being the same school).

Characteristics of internship placements and mentor principals predict movements into administrator roles.

Interns moved into an administrator position more quickly if they were male, in a competitive scholarship loan program, were coming from a rural location, and if their mentor principal was higher rated.

A few key findings:
A meaningful number of interns do not enter a school administrator position. 7 years after the completion of a principal internship roughly 65% of interns are predicted to have become an administrator.

Thanks to NCDPI for their partnership and insights throughout this work!

With the end of pandemic relief funding (ESSER cliff), districts may be unable to retain the same number of support personnel. Keep in mind there are still serious concerns with student achievement and attendance and support personnel benefit these outcomes.

The number of social workers in NC public schools has increased by 27 percent since the 2020 school year. Pandemic relief funding (eg ESSER) has played a big role in this increase, especially in urban districts.

NC public schools have more counselors and social workers than prior to the pandemic and the ratios of these personnel to students have increased. That’s good news for schools working to meet whole child needs AND in spite of increased attrition for counselors and social workers in recent years.

Thank you!!

Adding me to the education policy researchers would be much appreciated!

Not currently but very open to that possibility. We’ve been pushing to have some initial results in time for the legislative session in TX.

5) Again, this is initial work that needs replication and on-going analyses. But important to show that investments in high quality and accessible teacher preparation show early returns.

3) 1st year teachers who completed a paid residency perform comparably to other 1st year teachers in math and are much more effective in reading.
4) Paid residents are also more likely to return for a second year of teaching in TX.