Certain studies and the California legislature have recently concluded that seniority preference rules in teacher collective bargaining agreements facilitate a teacher "quality gap" by permitting senior teachers to transfer to schools with higher-performing and more affluent children. This study examines the effects of such transfer…

Teachers are being reassigned outside their primary specialities because of budget cuts, declining enrollments, school closures, and teacher layoffs. This article offers guidelines for developing a program, based on one implemented in Garden City (Michigan), that serves the retraining and emotional needs of reassigned teachers. (WD)

Drawing upon data from case studies of four teachers conducted over the course of eight years, this research examines the role that teachers' visions--their images of ideal classroom practice--play in teachers' career paths. This paper demonstrates the ways in which teachers' decisions to "leave" schools were often made for personal reasons, while…

Describes experiences of a Philadelphia teacher who is transferred irregularly from school to school as student enrollments shift. Focuses on difficulties of understanding how the new school operates, obtaining supplies, getting to know a new staff and student body, and teaching students with special needs. Recommends that frequently transferred…

Collective bargaining agreements, by their nature, impact upon the delivery of educational services to California's students. Collective bargaining agreements deal with hours of employment, evaluation of personnel, transfer of employees, leaves of absence and class size. These contract provisions directly impact a district's ability to provide…

Surveyed 15 teachers to identify (1) changes in grade level, schools, and school districts that elementary teachers experience during their careers and (2) reasons teachers reported for these changes. Results suggested that much mobility is voluntary. Most forced changes were caused by shifting enrollments. (JAC)

The purpose of the Teacher Follow-up Survey is to provide information about teacher mobility and attrition. It is a one-year follow-up of a sample of 8,400 teachers who were originally selected for the Teacher questionnaire of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). The study asked three questions: (1) Who is most likely to leave; (2) why do they…

When professors move to accept academic positions, there is an effect on their marriages and families. Once established in the new locations, these same professors pass through predictable stages that set them up for still further moves. Each move raises expectations of the perfect job in the perfect place. Each move also becomes more complicated.…

This report analyzes the methods used by selected school districts to protect teachers from arbitrary transfer and provide them the opportunity to be considered for promotion. Following a presentation of sample negotiation agreements, the report observes that, in most cases, promotion determination remains with management completely, and that…

Explores the effect of school transfer on elementary teachers' professional development in a case study of a district planned for transfer intervention. Although some found the challenge stimulating, merely shifting teachers to another location will not guarantee significant growth without policies that support the effective use of transfer. (CJH)

Our least-served students are taught by our least-experienced teachers. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, teachers in high-poverty public schools are twice as likely to transfer to another school as their colleagues in low-poverty public schools. Consequently, many students in high-poverty, urban public schools spend…

Because many school districts now face reductions in teaching and administrative staff, this short article provides information about administrative policies and roles in reducing school staffs. A section on the legal precedents for releasing tenured teachers sets out some relevant court decisions and the conditions necessary for reduction of…

Describes a method, patterned after the National Football League draft, that one school district created to transfer professional and nonprofessional personnel to new and old schools within the district. (IRT)

Report of a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.