RE: Question 1: Attracting and Retaining Teachers

Thank you Sharyl for bringing this out.  After 37 years in the high school science classroom, I finally decided the growing impact of increasing ancillary unpaid demands on our already overloaded time schedule was just getting rediculous (I must be a slow learner!  But I love teaching).  Something that many outside of education do no realize is that these inroads into teaching are growing, and, unlike in industry, we are not compensated for the additional time.  In addition, we are expected to spend countless hours in professional growth (that's fine but it's often in Summer, uncompensated) and "staff development" (usually after school, uncompensated, or by breakng up the classroom continuity with a "staff.dev.day".   In fact, I am sure all of this is contributing to the erosion in quality education and teacher survival.