Franklin Schargel’s Blog

There are 100,000 teacher vacancies in the United States.

CBS TV reported (October 30, 2019) that there were 14,444 teacher vacancies in Tucson, Arizona.  In order to fill the vacancies, the Arizona Department of Education has been importing international teachers. As of now, there are 3,250 foreign teachers in the U.S., up 50 percent since 2014.

A foreign teacher employed in Arizona must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and must obtain a visa. Many foreign teachers take the job and send money back to family in their home country.

My new  book, Who Will Teach The Children? Recruiting, Retaining & Refreshing Highly Effective Educatorsaddresses the problem and proposes a number of solutions.

USA Today printed an article (October 19, 2019) entitled, San Francisco is losing residents because it’s too expensive for nearly everyone. The article continued by stating that the “median home price of $1.4 Million, also $5-a gallon gas, private schools priced like universities and restaurants that cost nearly double the national average.” People are leaving San Francisco because it is too expensive to live there. The flight of the middle class has left the poor, the homeless and the rich. “In the Bay area, (according to the USA Today article) median household income is around $100,000. It is interesting that according to glassdoor.com, teachers in San Francisco earn between $42,900 to $77.1 per year resulting that teachers who work there must travel between 1-1 ½ hours each way.

But San Francisco is not the only city where the teachers who work there cannot live there. I have looked at a number of cities where teacher salaries mean that teachers cannot live in the places where they work>

• Seattle: Median home price $580,000 Teacher salary: $36.100 – $64, 6OO
• Denver: Median home price $425,000 Teacher salary: $32,400 – $$57,700
• Los Angeles Median home price $632,000 Teacher salary: $45,500 – $72,300
• Phoenix Median home price $280,000 Teacher salary: $28,300 ““ $50,200

Lack of affordable housing could jeopardize attracting highly educated workers looking for good schools for their children.

My book, Who Will Teach The Children? Recruiting, Retaining & Refreshing Highly Effective Educators proposes a number of solutions to this problem.

 

 

I delivered a workshop based on my new book, Who Will Teach the Children? Recruiting, Retaining, & Refreshing Highly Effective Educators at the Close-It Conference in Santa Fe, NM.

Here are some of the comments from the workshop attendees:

Excellent compilation and analysis of recent studies on teacher attrition. R. Nance, Ph.D. Student University of New Mexico.

The best thing about the presentation was his honesty & knowledge. J.Serino, Lake County IL government

Franklin presented a factual, experiential basis of the presentation of facts.

Franklin’s passion to improve the educational system. I think he covered so much in the time that he had.

He presented a clear statement of the problem with multiple options for solutions.

 

 

 

I have been notified by Amazon that my new book, Who Will Teach The Children? Recruiting, Retaining & Refreshing became  the #1 bestselling book in Academic Development Counseling on October 16, 2019. The book identifies the problem of teachers and school administrators leaving the field. Forty-four percent of classroom teachers leave the classroom within 5 years. The professional life expectancy of school administrators is 3 years except in rural areas, high poverty and high minority areas where it is 18 months. They are leaving the field almost as quickly as schools of education are preparing them.

The book has broken the top 100 in Teacher and Student Mentoring books (#30) and number 70 in Experimental Education Methods Books and #52 in Academic Counseling.

Who Will Teach The Children? Recruiting, Retaining and Refreshing Highly Effective Educators

The Akribos Group is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, authored by Franklin P.  Schargel,  entitled  Who Will Teach the Children? Recruiting, Retaining and Refreshing Highly Effective Educators. In his latest  book, Franklin sounds the alarm about this impending national crisis and  answers some critical questions. He is an internationally recognized expert, keynote presenter, and training specialist on school dropout prevention and serves as a Professional Associate for The Akribos Group.

About the Book
Much Anticipated Book Addresses America’s Next Educational Crisis

The rate of teacher attrition may soon leave America’s classrooms without enough teachers or school principals.

Forty-four percent of classroom teachers are leaving the educational field in five years. They are leaving almost as quickly as Colleges of Education are graduating them. The professional life expectancy of school administrators is three years, except in inner-cities, in low-performing, minority or rural schools ““ where it is 18 months.

If we wish to slow the educational exodus, we need to do three things:

1. Actively recruit new applicants to teaching.

2. Retain the existing staff people

3. Refreshing the skills and knowledge of those people already in schools.

How do we replace the hardworking, experienced teachers and school administrators who are currently working in our schools? If we wish to have high-performing school graduates we need to have highly effective educators. The United States cannot continue to thrive in the twenty-first century without a well-educated, well trained workforce which can only be achieved by having a well-paid, well-trained workforce.

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My new book Who Will Teach the Children? Recruiting, Retaining & Refreshing Highly Effective Educators is now available at the Kindle Store.

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My new book, Who Will Teach The Children? Recruiting, Retaining & Refreshing Highly Effective Educators , published on September 16th, 2019 is #95 on Amazon’s Best Seller List for Teacher and Student Mentoring. It is available for purchase on Amazon.com

Bullying is no longer an accepted childhood rite of passage. Yet one out of every five children is still reporting being bullied. While bullying intensifies in middle school and at between ages 11-15, elementary school children as young as five are reporting incidents in classrooms, school gyms, lunchrooms, and on the school bus. We need to create awareness among parents, teachers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and students that bullying is not acceptable. It can lead to depression, dropping out of school and suicide.