Nov 14 Session:

💡Piloting the Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching Measure: A Psychometric Evaluation with a Nationally Representative Sample with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Washington Park 2

Nov 13 Sessions Continued:

💡A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Dual-Certification in Special Education and General Education (Session: Multiple Paper 41) with @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 3–3:50 pm
📍 Century A

Nov 13 Sessions Continued:

💡Multiple Lenses on Special Educators’ Work: Exploring the Complexity and Multidimensionality of Special Education Teaching Quality with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 Thursday 11/13 from 3:00–3:50 pm
📍 Pershing Place West

Nov 13 Sessions Continued:

💡Project SUSTAIN: Developing a Collaborative Intervention for Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 11–11:50 am
📍 Penn Valley

Nov 13 Sessions Continued:

💡Examining the Special Education Workforce through Cross-State Analysis with @lmasonwms.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social
🕐️ 10–10:50 am

Nov 13 Sessions:

💡Overwork in Special Education: A Qualitative Analysis of Teachers’ Perspectives with @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐️ 8–8:50 am
📍 Washington Park 3

💡Keynote Panel: Preparing Special Educators in a Time of Uncertainty with Lynn Holdheide
🕐️ 9–9:50 am

Nov 12 Sessions:

💡Publishing and Reviewing for Teacher Education and Special Education Journal with LaRon Scott and @lizbettini.bsky.social
🕐 1-1:50pm
📍 Century B

💡Special Educators’ Working Conditions and Building Family Relationships: A Missing Link?
🕐️ 1–1:50pm
📍 Pershing Place East

Our results underscore the importance of considering #SpecialEducation staffing challenges across states and contexts. Read the full paper here: sparccenter.org/research-fin...

➡️ Patterns of turnover varied across school types, with the highest turnover in charter schools.

➡️ Special education teacher turnover rates were generally higher in higher-poverty schools.

➡️After the first year of the pandemic, special education teacher attrition rates declined, spiked, and then stabilized.

➡️ In most states, special education teacher attrition rates were higher than attrition rates for other teachers.

➡️ States varied considerably in how they identify special education teachers in their data and how they staff special education, leading to different staffing ratios.

We are grateful to our partner states for their collaboration in this important work. We look forward to continuing our research in the year ahead.

⭐Resource #3: An interactive dashboard exploring the key dimensions of the special education teacher workforce across all our partner states: sparccenter.org/data-explore...