K-12 Lens 2025: Key Trends in Teacher Retention, Student Support, and Budget Confidence

When it comes to employee absences and substitute management, do you know what to expect for the upcoming school year? Understanding historical trends can help you prepare, so let’s take a look at select month-to-month data from the 2018-19 school year, published by the Frontline Research & Learning Institute.

Located on the southern edge of the greater Minneapolis area, Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools is home to nearly 9,000 students. With its commitment to environmental education and STEM, district and community leaders want to ensure that students have high-quality instruction to reach their potential as contributing and productive members of the ever-changing global community.

Collecting data for an evaluation of professional learning, the fourth step in an eight-step process, can be a relatively simple process of survey administration. Yet, as Greece Central School District leaders discovered, a survey does not capture the authentic voice of participants.