Before the pandemic hit, the teacher shortage was already at a crisis point. The Economic Policy Institute reported in March of 2019, “The teacher shortage is real, large and growing, and worse than we thought”.
OneScreen’s 2021 Teacher Survey: Results on Workload and Support
In 2021, all the uncertainty around reopening schools, new safety measures and hybrid learning strategies has brought the underlying problem into sharp focus. We wanted to hear from teachers in their own words how things are going in their districts as the push for reopening intensifies. We also asked what they thought teaching will look like in the near future and what they needed to best manage this new reality.