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Feb 2013

EMPOWERED EDUCATORS

“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?” [1]

Diane Ravitch
The Death and Life of
the Great American School System

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WHAT CAN I DO TO
HELP TEACHERS?

This month at CharitySub we’ve selected three charities that support our nation’s selfless educators. Our teachers face incredible challenges in the classroom every day. Underfunding affects more than just teacher paychecks, it also affects classroom conditions, contributes to a

lack of administrator support, and increases the student to teacher ratio. All this, paired with higher testing standards puts an enormous strain on both teachers and students. Join us as we learn more about the issues that affect our nation's educators.

THE EARLY YEARS ARE THE TOUGHEST

45% OF NEW TEACHERS QUIT IN THEIR FIRST 5 YEARS.

45% of New Teachers Quit in their first 5 Years [2]

TEACHER RETENTION IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE

  • Student achievement tends to be significantly worse in the classrooms of first-year teachers, before rising in teachers' second and third years. [3]
  • It costs a school district an estimated $11,000 to replace each teacher who leaves.
  • Teachers are one of the largest workforces in this country. There are more educators than doctors, nurses, and lawyers combined. [2]
Nearly 50% of funding for public schools is provided through local taxes, this creates large differences in funding between wealthy and impoverished communities. [4]
Teachers spend 356 dollars a year on resources.
[5]
What do teachers buy?
[6]

This month’s CharitySub partners support the men and women who work so tirelessly to educate our nation’s children. Make a charity selection today, and let's support our teachers together!


Let’s support empowered educators together.

Adopt A Classroom .org

Classroom resources for Teachers in-need
Adopt A Classroom .org

AdoptAClassroom.org puts teachers with under-supplied classrooms in touch with community donors. These partnerships have not only helped to raise teacher and student morale through well-supplied classrooms, they’ve also brought back the return of hands-on learning.

Center for Inspired Teaching

Innovative teacher training
Center for Inspired Teaching

Center for Inspired Teaching creates programming for teachers, that allows them to become instigators of thought. This means teaching students not what to think, but rather how to think. The end result is a more engaging and joyful learning experience for both teacher and student.

Teaching Matters

Urban teaching support
Teaching Matters

Urban teachers are faced with learning deficits and the pressure to have students meet rigorous testing requirements. Teaching Matters works to give teachers the tools they need to support each other in lesson planning and instruction, so that students learn more and teachers feels supported.

Footnotes & Further Study
  1. Good Reads ↩
  2. Public Education Faces a Crisis in Teacher Retention, Claudia Graziano ↩
  3. New Teachers Face Three Common Challenges, Bryan Goodwin ↩

  4. Unequal School Funding in the United States, Bruce J. Biddle and David C. Berliner ↩
  5. Teachers Spend $1.3 Billion Out of Pocket on Classroom Materials, David Nagel ↩
  6. What Teachers are Buying for their Students, Adopt a Classroom ↩