Want to win your teachers back? Try reducing student discipline problems.
Addressing discipline was the top item teachers who left Atlanta Public Schools in the past year or so cited as a change that would convince them to return to Atlanta schools.
Among other top changes teachers said would lure them back: increasing involvement of teachers in decision making and increasing administrative support.
That’s according to the results of more than a year of exit survey data from about 140 teachers.
Those results aren't so different from the results of an online state survey last year, district human resources chief Pamela Hall said.
In that survey, respondents selected “number of state mandated tests” and “method for evaluating teachers” as among their top reasons they believed colleagues were leaving teaching.
“We have found that the people leaving APS aren’t leaving for any reasons out of the ordinary,” Hall said.
Still, more than 70 percent of respondents to the Atlanta survey said they’d recommend Atlanta Public Schools to a friend as a place to work.
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