Hello, all,
I am a music teacher in eastern Montana, but I am also certified in sociology/anthropology and teach a course in that subject at MCC.
I have been looking to see if there is data on teacher retention and jobs satisfaction in-state. I have only found information nationwide or out of state.
I am seeing signs of a collapse in education, and I want to test to see if I am off-base.
If you know of studies done on the topic that are specific to Montana teachers, or if you’d like to help gather this information.
Edited to add: Thanks for the pointers. As best I can tell right now, the stats I really think are critical are not being tracked by the state.
We don’t have a measure of how many people are planning to leave teaching in the short term, or why. (Any teacher can tell you why, but specific numbers are needed to communicate with policy makers and the public.).
We don’t have data that lines out what districts have high turnover and why, or what districts have low turnover and why.
And though some stats like shortage areas are tracked, they aren’t recent and don’t reflect the current reality.