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See how district teams approached real recruitment and retention challenges and what they learned along the way.
New! Free webinar series
Strengthening the Teacher Workforce
Seven free webinars featuring Florida district examples, practical resources, and a step-by-step process for strengthening teacher recruitment and retention.
The series begins with a kickoff on workforce stability, then moves through the work district leaders and human resources teams can use to better understand their workforce challenges, identify where to focus, test strategies, and plan for implementation.
A district leadership series from Impact Florida
Move from a broad workforce challenge to a focused plan your team can act on.
Each session builds on the one before it. District teams can follow the full sequence or join the sessions that match where they are in the work.
Use practical resources
Each session includes a tool or protocol your team can put to work in its own context.
Follow a clear sequence
The series moves step by step through workforce data, problem definition, listening, root causes, testing, and implementation.
Leave with a next step
Every webinar is designed to help your team keep the work moving after the session ends.
The full series
Seven sessions, one process.
The series begins in September 2026 and continues through June 2027. All sessions are free.
Session
1
Beyond the Vacancy: Why Districts Can’t Recruit Their Way to Workforce Stability
Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Filling teacher vacancies is essential, but recruitment alone won’t create a stable teacher workforce. See how Florida districts are looking beyond vacancy counts to uncover what’s driving recruitment and retention challenges and focus their efforts where they can make the greatest difference.
Session
2
Building a Teacher Workforce Data Plan that Drives Action
Thursday, November 12, 2026 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Build a useful teacher workforce data plan, identify gaps in the information you have, and choose the measures that can help your team better understand its recruitment and retention challenges.
Session
3
Defining the Problem: Moving from Data to Action
Thursday, January 21, 2027 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Turn a broad workforce concern into a specific, evidence-supported problem statement your team can act on.
Session
4
Using Stakeholder Voice to Refine the Problem
Thursday, February 18, 2027 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Plan and conduct listening sessions, use what you hear alongside workforce evidence, and refine the problem your team is working to address.
Session
5
Identifying Root Causes: Moving from Symptoms to What’s Actually Driving the Problem
Thursday, March 11, 2027 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Distinguish symptoms from root causes, examine the factors contributing to a recruitment or retention problem, and determine which causes your district can address.
Session
6
Designing a Prototype: Planning a Small-Scale Test of Your Workforce Strategy
Thursday, April 22, 2027 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Design a small-scale test of a teacher workforce strategy, decide what your team needs to learn, and collect evidence that can inform the next decision.
Session
7
Planning for Implementation: Building Your Action Plan and Securing Leadership Buy-In
Thursday, June 17, 2027 | 10–11 a.m. ET
Turn what your team has learned into a plan you can carry out by defining responsibilities, building leadership support, and deciding how you’ll monitor progress.
Series host
Jessica Solano
Former leader of Impact Florida’s Teacher Workforce Cadre
Meet Jessica
Teacher workforce experience from the classroom to the district office.
Jessica led Impact Florida’s Teacher Workforce Cadre from 2023–2025, working alongside district teams to design and test solutions that strengthen the teacher pipeline and keep great educators in the classroom.
In 2017, Jessica was named Florida’s Teacher of the Year. She later returned to the classroom and created two programs focused on teacher leadership and mentorship, work that helped lead to the creation of Polk County Public Schools’ Teacher Engagement Department.
Before joining Impact Florida as a Teacher Workforce consultant, Jessica served as Director of Recruitment and Engagement with Polk County Public Schools, where her work contributed to a threefold increase in teacher applicants.
Built from real district work
The series draws from Impact Florida’s Teacher Workforce Cadre.
Across two cohorts, district leaders used Impact Florida’s continuous improvement process to examine workforce data, identify root causes, design and test solutions, and build plans for sustaining what worked.
5
participating districts
52
district leaders
2
cohorts
Coming August 2027
A new teacher workforce resource for Florida districts
Impact Florida is developing a free, guided online resource to help Florida district teams strengthen teacher recruitment, support, and retention.
Built from lessons, tools, and real district experiences from the Teacher Workforce Cadre, the resource will guide teams as they examine workforce data, listen to educators, identify where to focus, test strategies, and track progress over time.
District leaders and human resources teams will find practical tools, examples from Florida districts, expert guidance, and a workspace designed to help teams keep the work moving.
Learn more about the resource