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Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Career Progression

A guide for school leaders

By: Chartered College of Teaching

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781036212377
Published By: Sage UK
Year: 2025
Page Count: 160
Publication date: December 29, 2025

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Description

Key professional learning from the Chartered College of Teaching. Supports school leaders to build, cherish and develop diverse and inclusive staff teams.

School leaders are grappling with the challenges of recruiting and retaining teachers every day.
At a national level, this is about many factors including pay, workload and accountability. Within this context, how do school leaders face this challenge today, in their school, with their teaching staff?

School leaders are working to fill vacancies, support those new to the profession and enable staff members to progress – all while grappling with competing priorities and limited budgets. This book supports leaders with recruitment and retention in practice. Specifically, it helps leaders to address the barriers that people with protected characteristics might face in becoming teachers and progressing into leadership positions. The strategies offered in this book support improved teacher recruitment, job satisfaction and retention.

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Chartered College of Teaching

The Chartered College of Teaching is the professional body for teachers in England. We are working to celebrate, support and connect teachers to take pride in their profession and provide the best possible education for children and young people. We are dedicated to bridging the gap between practice and research and equipping teachers from the second they enter the classroom with the knowledge and confidence to make the best decisions for their pupils.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Understanding the challenges of teacher recruitment and retention

1. Education policy and professional development: Understanding key legislative shifts and policy initiatives

2. Teacher professionalism: The importance of professional identity and autonomy for retention and career progression

3. The challenges schools face in recruiting teachers: Organisational cultures and the complexity of the ITT market

4. Understanding the underrepresentation of minority ethnic teachers

Part 2: Inclusive leadership: Strategies for supporting diverse staff teams

5. Inclusive leadership: Addressing systemic barriers to support teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds

6. Recruiting and supporting neurodivergent teachers by developing an inclusive work environment

7. Recruiting and retaining LGBTQ+ teachers through inclusive leadership

Part 3: Building supportive work environments: Fostering career progression for all

8: Supporting teacher retention and career progression: Fostering Early Career Teacher self-efficacy through reflective practice and professional development

9. Flexible working practices to support recruitment, retention and career development

10: Addressing workload and supporting teacher wellbeing

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