APS Teacher Turnover

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if (and where) APS publishes data on teacher turnover? I'm curious if our school is normal or if its as bad as it seems to me.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know if they publish turnover by school, but you can get a feel for it by looking at the job listings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if they publish turnover by school, but you can get a feel for it by looking at the job listings.

The English Learner teachers are an exception to this; they are trying to bring in more because of a DOJ settlement.

[Anonymous]

There's been a LOT of turnover at my school in the past 8 years (one of the high schools). I'll be following that train next year!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if they publish turnover by school, but you can get a feel for it by looking at the job listings.

The English Learner teachers are an exception to this; they are trying to bring in more because of a DOJ settlement.

There’s also been a big increase in EL students since the beginning of the year

[Anonymous]

check out VDOE school quality profile. Search for you school, go to teacher quality tab and they have data on different categories

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if (and where) APS publishes data on teacher turnover? I'm curious if our school is normal or if its as bad as it seems to me.

which school?

[Anonymous]

Is it Discovery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:check out VDOE school quality profile. Search for you school, go to teacher quality tab and they have data on different categories

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/

NP here - thank you for this

[Anonymous]

That VDOE data is definitely interesting, but it doesnt directly reflect the way that some schools in APS have positive cultures and leadership and retain as many teachers as possible (at least in the current climate in public ed), and others have awful admin and high turnover. APS doesn’t publish that data because it would be extremely embarrassing and they don’t hold those administrators accountable.

[Anonymous]

Here are available positions if that helps. You can sort by school. https://apps2.winocular.com/arlingtonps/workspace/wSpace.exe?Action=wsJobsMain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That VDOE data is definitely interesting, but it doesnt directly reflect the way that some schools in APS have positive cultures and leadership and retain as many teachers as possible (at least in the current climate in public ed), and others have awful admin and high turnover. APS doesn’t publish that data because it would be extremely embarrassing and they don’t hold those administrators accountable.

+1

Weird that OP won’t name the school.

Some are notorious for turnover cuz awful admins. APS higher ups know this but parents would need to speak up loudly to get it fixed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it Discovery?

I’m not OP, but Discovery has had a shocking amount of turnover since it opened.

[Anonymous]

One way you can sort of get a sense for this is look at the above VDOE website for "inexperienced teachers." Oakridge, a low-poverty school, has 8 teachers who are inexperienced. That's 15% and the state average for low-poverty schools is 4%. Jamestown, another low-poverty school, has 4 (8%) inexperienced teachers.

There are a lot of reasons for teachers leaving, obviously, but I think it's reasonable to assume that if 15% of the teachers at the school are inexperienced, there is higher teacher turnover than at a similarly situated school with half that number.

(And yes Oakridge sucks, parents have been screaming about it for a long time, and the crappy principal is still there. I can't even blame her at this point; it's all APS's fault because they have known for decades that she's horrible and they do nothing. It's part of a broader culture of zero accountability on the part of the school board and APS.)