Attract and Retain Great Teachers
Facilitate your staff's growth by offering the professional development they want—and need—most
Recruiting, mentoring, and retaining staff is critical to support student learning. Hanover’s advisors are prepared to provide recommendations for supporting your staff, gathering and interpreting stakeholder feedback, analyzing your district’s current performance, and developing an action plan to work toward your goals.
Sustained Professional Development is associated with a 21% increase in achievement
Get insights on how to recruit, engage, and retain staff
Online Professional Development Practices
Presents research-based guidance on adapting your professional development framework and offerings to accommodate a remote work environment and tailoring professional development to individual teachers’ needs.
Professional Learning Evaluation Framework
Assesses your professional learning investments by creating a customized evaluation framework to determine which offerings are most effective in meeting staff needs.
Professional Development Needs Assessment
Examines your district’s current professional learning options to inform decisions around professional development and online learning, providing your teachers with the professional learning they truly want and need.
Professional Learning Focus Groups
Evaluates if, and how, staff are learning from the district’s offerings, and identifies exemplary practices to implement to improve change management in your district.
Teacher Retention Analysis
Determines the proportion of teachers who are retained and whether there are disproportionalities in retaining teachers of different demographic characteristics to help district leaders overcome their retention challenges.
Educator Learning Center
Combines the quality of in-person professional learning with the convenience and affordability of online professional development, providing best-in-class learning modules that reinforce your district’s professional learning priorities. Explore the Educator Learning Center.
Hanover Surveys Help Bakersfield Meet its Teachers’ Professional Development Needs
“We want our teachers to give feedback and lead sessions, focusing on a culture of collective efficacy to support our belief system. Having a partner like Hanover Research fits a longstanding need in our district. We have been able to make the progress we’ve made because we have a third-party vendor…we’re positioned for great success.”
– Mark Luque; Assistant Superintendent, Educational Services
Why Ceres Unified School District is Partnering with Hanover Research
“Over the last year or so, we’ve shifted our mindset from looking at teacher professional development as a one-way process to an actual learning process. Then March happened, and we went into crisis mode to help our teachers through our online platforms. We were able to provide some digital learning resources for teachers over the last few months, but as we started to prep for summer, we started to think about what we normally provide for our teachers, and how we can incentivize them to participate in professional learning and provide feedback.”
– Dr. Amy Peterman, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services
Why Amherst County Public Schools is Partnering with Hanover Research
“One of our biggest goals for the year is to create an infrastructure that will have the capacity to focus on high-quality professional growth of staff. We decided to engage with Hanover because we needed an outside ‘eye’ to provide recommendations and best practices concerning our greatest needs. We anticipate the Professional Development Project having the biggest impact on our institution—if we can improve all of the adults in our division, then outcomes for students will improve, and that is what public education is about. Institutions do not have all of the answers, therefore seeing different perspectives is crucial.”
– Dr. Robert J. Arnold, Superintendent
