So exciting to see this study published! It’s a fantastic example of why it’s important to expand the scope of how we think about and study the education workforce. Check out Aaron’s thread below with a link to their paper!

Evidence-based insights matter for public policy. This FREE conference is going to have a ton of great research on teacher working conditions, quality, and pipelines. If you're going to/can be in Arlington, VA on March 2nd then register to join us!!

New @caldercenter.bsky.social working paper w/ @brbackes.bsky.social, @jecowan.bsky.social, & @cedr.bsky.social! We use MA data to explore the implications of the climate and diversity of students teachers' placement schools for outcomes of students of color. Paper & abstract ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4sxhtss8

🚨New RFP Alert!🚨 @Arnold_Ventures Evidence & Evaluation team released just two new RFPs to support research evaluating the causal impacts of U.S. social programs and policies: bit.ly/4aXA43k A short 🧵on what we're prioritizing and what's new this cycle (1/n)

Check out this awesome JMP by @john-fallon-econ.com!! Really interesting findings. John also does amazing work on the teacher workforce and anyone would be lucky to have him as a colleague! See his JMP thread below:

Are you a political scientist who studies/teaches education policy? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi. Are you an education researcher who studies/teaches politics? Read this. Use it to improve your syllabi.

Check out the TED Publication of the Year for 2025!

📉 Why did student achievement start declining before COVID? How are school enrollment patterns shifting five years after? Join us for our Nov 13 EdWorkingPapers webinar featuring James H. Wyckoff, @abbyfrancis.bsky.social, and @joshua-goodman.com edworkingpapers.com/webinar-series

💡Attending #SREE2025 this week? Join SPARC Center experts @lizbettini.bsky.social and @afgilmour.bsky.social for their session on Measuring and Strengthening the Special Education Teacher Workforce on Saturday, Oct 11 from 12-1:30 CT at Palmer House Hilton – Crystal.

First pub on the tenure track! 📣🎉 Stoked to see my work with Luis Rodriguez out in AERA-Open. We provide evidence regarding the distribution of different types police interventions in NYC public schools across school-level demographic characteristics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For grad students or postdocs out there: let me know if you'd like to present in my department's (Ed Policy, Org, & Leadership) Quantitative Working Group meeting Wednesday of next week (October 8) at 3pm Central time. Work at any stage is fine, it's very informal. I have a presenter gap this month.

Really excited to have this paper out in the world! See Dan's thread below!

Policy solutions can help stabilize and diversify the paraeducator workforce to improve #SpecialEducation outcomes. A recent paper by @lindseykaler.bsky.social and @roddy-theobald.bsky.social at @caldercenter.bsky.social examines turnover patterns in WA and offers suggestions for policymakers.

Excited to circulate another @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! Another study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social‬. Using data from WA, we track individual paraeducators to predict exit from the state education workforce. Ungated WP here: ‬ tinyurl.com/3wtfrm2m 🧵 below:

Our researchers are digging into questions about the #SpecialEducation teacher workforce. Recently, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @lindseykaler.bsky.social, @hannahmmathews.bsky.social,‬ Malavika Ragunathan & Katheryn Meyer explored teacher beliefs about students labeled with EBD.

🏫🌎 How do schools impact the environment? From energy use to food systems, schools have a substantial ecological footprint. Join the #SustainableED team on 7/15 at 1PM ET to explore how schools can reduce their impact & lead on sustainability. 📅 Register: buff.ly/2IrefK2

New pub alert! 🎉 Check out our new paper in EC, in which we use DisCrit to examine special educators' beliefs about students labeled with EBD. I loved working with @hannahmmathews.bsky.social, @lizbettini.bsky.social, @katiekat.bsky.social, and Mal Ragunathan on this one! doi.org/10.1177/0014...

New working paper from me and a great group of coauthors: The Effects of the Four-Day School Week on Teacher Recruitment and Retention caldercenter.org/publications... Read on to see what's different about this vs. some of my prior work 🧵⬇️

Updated literature review on special education teachers' occupational wellbeing and burnout is published online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... @lizbettini.bsky.social @michellecumming.bsky.social Excited to see the nascent intervention work prior research has catalyzed!

This is an AWESOME webinar for anyone interested in learning about how to use state longitudinal data systems to study the special education teacher workforce! Researchers, doc students, state data folks - come join us!

My first First Author paper is out with @fchriscurran.bsky.social 🥳 This study examines the political, economic, and social factors influencing state adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) using an event history analysis. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YYPWZ...

New @caldercenter.bsky.social WP! A study from my dissertation, w/ @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @natejones.bsky.social‬, & @lizbettini.bsky.social. We find staff turnover matters for SWDs. Ungated WP & one pager: • Working paper: tinyurl.com/j3rykkp9 • One-pager: tinyurl.com/bddtzxtp

Nice coverage of my recent work on school staff shortages from the UIUC News Bureau.//Staff shortages exceed those for teachers in many Illinois public schools news.illinois.edu/staff-shorta...

Call for manuscripts for a special series in Research in Special Education -- Open Science Practices and the Early Career Researcher: A Push to Advance Special Education Research riseopenjournal.org/news/20/ A great opportunity for early career researchers!

Five years later, what have we learned about student recovery & teacher labor markets since the pandemic? Join us for Session I at #CALDER2025 to hear the latest from Cory Koedel, @roddy-theobald.bsky.social, @ermorton.bsky.social, @cedr.bsky.social, & Kevin Mahnken. Register here: bit.ly/3En3lGk

Happy to share that our paper on the relationship between teacher intentions and teacher turnover behavior is now published at Education Finance and Policy. (with @edutuan.bsky.social @alexmoran.bsky.social Katharine Strunk, and Jason Burns). direct.mit.edu/edfp/article... 1/5

I appreciate the nice write-up of some of my recent work by Sharita Forrest here at our News Bureau. news.illinois.edu/view/6367/97...

Olivia Chi explains that we need to think about structural ways to shore up the teaching industry. Read More: http://spr.ly/63328aXdte @bostonglobe.com

So excited that this work is finally published in Exceptional Children! I loved working on this study of the paraeducator workforce with @roddy-theobald.bsky.social @lizbettini.bsky.social and @natejones.bsky.social. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So excited for all the work we're going to get to do with the SPARC Center over the next 5 years!! Stay tuned and follow us all for updates :)

Here's a quick thread. First, you can get the paper where we describe how we web scrape school district sites to get job postings in close real time here: bit.ly/3CKxkVj More 👇 1/n