School culture a bigger draw than salary, teachers say

It is a concern of any company or organization: keeping talented employees under its roof for an extended period of time.

The same is true with school systems, which have an estimated 40 percent of teachers leaving the profession within the first five years.

But those teachers may not be leaving because of their paycheck or the students they teach. According to a report from The Education Trust:

“Despite widespread assumptions that students are the primary cause of teacher dissatisfaction, research shows that the culture of the school — particularly the quality of school leadership and level of staff cohesion — actually matters more to teachers’ job satisfaction and retention, particularly in high-poverty schools, than do the demographics of the students or teacher salaries.”

Local teachers seem to agree.

“In general, people get into education because they want to make a difference in a child’s life —

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