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The Center for Educator Workforce Development
The Center for Educator Workforce Development aims to strengthen how California recruits, prepares, and retains professional educators. Early efforts are supported in collaboration with WestEd and Education First. The Center advances smarter uses of data, stronger cross-agency collaboration, and innovation in pathways to teaching.
Meet Our Team →Data Hub: Using Data to Drive Action
A central focus of the Center is using data to better understand and strengthen California’s educator pipeline. This includes building long-term infrastructure to measure candidate success and ensure preparation programs provide adequate support through all credential requirements. The Center will also convene ongoing Workforce Data Meetups to foster shared learning and coordinated action across agencies and institutions.
State Educator Workforce Collaborative: Aligning Statewide Efforts
The Center holds space for agencies to come together around shared educator workforce goals. Through the State Educator Workforce Collaborative, the Center supports regular working groups, joint advisories, and strategic planning across institutions. This work builds alignment on key issues like retention,
equity, and preparation pathways—turning short-term partnerships into lasting infrastructure for joint problem-solving.
2022-2025 Collaborative Report (authored by WestEd): Strengthening California’s Teacher Workforce: Toward a
Statewide Strategic Framework
Program Incubator: Testing and Scaling What Works
The Center creates room to test and scale approaches that respond to local and statewide needs. The first area of focus is developing a registered apprenticeship pathway into teaching, including tools for local implementation and coordination with state partners. Over time, the Center will expand its scope to include efforts like improving access to bilingual authorizations and supporting new onramps into the profession. CTC intends to make the Center for Educator Workforce Development a permanent fixture of the agency, taking on increasing ownership of each component and securing permanent funding by the close of the grant period in 2028.
The Center for Educator Workforce Development is housed in the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Division of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment. While current priorities reflect early grant-funded work, the Center is designed to grow with the needs of the field—responsive to data, informed by practitioners, and rooted in partnership.
Resources to Support the Center’s Focus:
- Addressing Critical Challenges in the Teacher Workforce: A Collaborative Approach in California | WestEd
- Tackling Teacher Shortages: What We Know About California’s Teacher Workforce Investments | Learning Policy Institute
- Educating Teachers in California: What Matters for Teacher Preparedness? | Learning Policy Institute
- Fact Sheet: An Overview of Teacher Shortages: 2025
- Fact Sheet: Teacher Shortages by Subjects Across States
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