Four percent of all public school teaching positions were vacant, and 26 percent of districts had multiple teaching vacancies, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. With teacher vacancies on the rise, schools are turning to remote teaching to incentivize teachers to work in districts that struggle to fill jobs with in-person candidates. “This idea that every single teacher must be a full-time, in-person teacher for six periods out of the seven-period day… that model is dying in the corporate world and university world,” CU Denver Professor of Educational Leadership Scott McLeod told EdTech. “We have opportunities to create some alternative staffing models where people can dive into specialization, part-time work, or remote work that would empower them and allow some of them to thrive in a different way.
