Of those considering a career change, 93% are actively taking at least one step by updating their LinkedIn profiles, rewriting resumes, and applying for jobs. The Charles Butt Foundation (CBF) conducted a poll with Texas teachers and determined that 77% of teachers in Texas are considering leaving the profession. The panel started by presenting some staggering statistics. JoLisa Hoover (Teacher Specialist at Raise Your Hand Texas) sat down with Susan Hansen (teacher and instructional coach at Leander ISD), Yisbeth Puckett (dual language reading specialist and science curriculum specialist at Leander ISD), and Stephanie Stoebe (4th grade teacher at Round Rock ISD) to explore the problem. By first asking the question of why teachers are leaving, the administrators and policy-makers may be able to finally affect positive change to ensure they stay. One of the more distressing panel discussions this year at SXSW EDU explored the issue that is affecting most districts in America. There is more data than ever about the challenges and potential solutions facing the teaching profession. More zeroes in, with laserlike intensity, on the interior life of an extraordinary "ordinary woman," showcasing Clarke's skill as a writer of inimitable force.Teachers are leaving the profession with half of all new teachers exiting after five years, and fewer people pursuing a teaching career. Eventually Idora finds her way back into the light with a courage that is both remarkable and unforgettable. As she summons the strength to investigate her son's troubles-and her own weaknesses-the book quietly builds to its crescendo. But now that BJ has disappeared into a life of crime, she recoils from his loss and is unable to get out of bed, burdened by feelings of invisibility. Left alone to raise her son, Idora has done her best to survive against immense odds. While she struggled to make ends meet, her deadbeat husband, Bertram, abandoned her for a better life in New York. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex of memory, pain, and disappointment that becomes a riveting expose of her life as a Caribbean immigrant living abroad. At the news of her son BJ's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basement apartment.
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