Teacher Sustainability

In this conversation, Josh Thurbee and Adam Ramirez delve into the challenges faced by beginning teachers and the unsustainability of teaching, highlighting the need for support and community. It also explores reflections on time, energy, and the journey of learning and growth, concluding with insights on teaching concepts and mastery.

STEM teacher retention is essential to student success but must mean more than just keeping teachers in the classroom. The Knowles Teacher Initiative has found that building communities of teacher leaders is a powerful strategy for sustaining early-career educators. Read the whole article in Phi Delta Kappan.

Rosalie Shyu explores how two deaths helped her to teach to benefit her students and herself.

Reading teachers’ stories is inspiring. The Spring 2026 issue of Kaleidoscope gives you ideas to implement and reconnect you to your passion for teaching.

In a twist on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Matthew Dudak and Justin Ragland provide a framework for teachers’ needs and the support required to engage in meaningful professional growth and improvement.