Automated Teacher Diversity District Tool

The automated teacher diversity district tool is designed to help state education agency staff support districts in identifying gaps in the diversity of their teacher workforces. It is an automated version of the prior Teacher Diversity District Tool. The automated tool generates district-level reports that provide the racial/ethnic make-up of a district's student and teacher populations and its three- and five-year teacher retention rates by race and ethnicity. The template can be used to prepare reports for any number of districts. Inputting the data could take as little as 30 minutes if the data are readily available. After gathering and entering the necessary data, the tool takes one to two minutes to generate district reports.

The automated teacher diversity district tool includes four components:

1. Instructions document: Provides an explanation of how to compile the data and produce the district reports.
2. Teacher diversity district report data table in Excel: This file is used by state education agency staff to compile the data for each district.
3. Teacher diversity tool: This file uses the data from the teacher diversity district report data table Excel file to automatically generate reports by district showing the diversity of each district's teacher workforce and retention rates.
4. Teacher diversity district report in Word: This reporting template contains the text and figures generated by the tool with updated information for each district.