Bill Text: HI HCR166 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting The Department Of Education And The Hawaii State Teachers Association To Develop Strategies To Place Experienced Teachers In Hard-to-fill Schools Where Their Experience Is Most Needed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-16 - This measure has been deleted from the meeting scheduled on Monday 03-16-20 2:20PM in conference room 309. [HCR166 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-HCR166-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	166
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

Requesting the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association to develop strategies to place experienced teachers in hard-to-fill schools where their experience is most needed.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the first few years of teaching are often viewed as the most difficult occupational years of an educator's career; and

 

     WHEREAS, experienced teachers in Hawaii with years or decades of experience often gravitate to schools having more stable classroom communities and easier teaching environments; and

 

WHEREAS, new teachers lacking experience are oftentimes assigned to hard-to-fill schools having less stable classrooms, fewer veteran teachers, a less supportive faculty structure, and comparatively more difficult teaching environments; and

 

     WHEREAS, the system of assigning experienced teachers to easier tasks and new teachers to more challenging tasks contrasts with most other occupational fields where experienced employees are typically given progressively more challenging duties as their skill level improves; and

 

     WHEREAS, assigning new teachers to less-stable classrooms has contributed to half of all new teachers in Hawaii leaving the classroom within the first five years; and

 

     WHEREAS, according to the Learning Policy Institute, Hawaii tops the nation in an overall teacher turnover rate at 4.9 percent, which is nearly double the national average of 2.6 percent; and

 

     WHEREAS, placing new teachers in stable schools and classrooms with strong support networks can help those teachers develop classroom management experience under easier conditions and will help to reduce teacher turnover and the overall teacher shortage in the State; and

 

     WHEREAS, placing experienced teachers in hard-to-fill schools will help to spread their knowledge, skills, and experience in areas of the highest need; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2020, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association are requested to develop strategies to place greater numbers of experienced teachers in hard-to-fill schools where their experience is most needed; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Education and the Hawaii State Teachers Association are requested to submit a report to the Legislature on strategies to place experienced teachers in hard-to-fill schools where their experience is most needed, including any proposed legislation, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2021; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Superintendent of Education, President of the Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Chairperson of the Board of Education.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Department of Education; Hawaii State Teachers Association; Teachers; Hard-to-fill Schools; Retention