The Teacher Exodus: Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms is an authentic examination of many of the reasons public school teachers are leaving the profession. It also takes a hard look at why students are no longer selecting teaching as their career choice. American culture is at a tipping point and many politicians and bureaucrats are tinkering with culture through racial policies and social engineering, in efforts to empower students, rather than stem the tide of teacher attrition. Teachers are frustrated by requirements to implement social and intervention programs that fall outside their training, which limits the moral purpose they envisioned when they first entered the profession. Across the nation, teachers are feeling marginalized and impacted by policies handed down from above, which actually elevate students over teachers. Teachers sense their profession has been reduced to classroom monitoring and facilitating, which they did not sign up for! They are restricted in their classroom management and must employ a series of intervention strategies just to defend their actions of discipline. If America is to reverse the trend of teachers leaving classrooms, there must be genuinely supportive efforts to reinvigorate adults to pursue teaching and bureaucrats must release teachers to work their skills. There must be a reversal of the mindset that teachers are leaving education because education has left them. One way to do this is for bureaucrats and education administrators to once again empower teachers to be the local arbiters of education for their classrooms.

List of Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1- Teacher Migration from Education Teachers Leaving the Profession Public Education is in Trouble American Culture is at a Tipping Point Teacher Shortages Considering the Constraints Blaming Teachers Justice for Professionals Students with Special Designations Theory or Reality? The Role of Race Reversing the Trend Notes Chapter 2- Fed-Up: Bureaucracy and Politics Educational Equity and Restorative Justice Inequity of a Different Kind Disparity in Treatment Legal Remedies A Change in Perspective Parental Power Fear of Action Taking a Stand Socio-Cultural Changes Impact Schools and Students Policy Based on Race? Common Sense Gaining the Attention of the Bureaucracy Impacts of School Boards Reversing the Trend Notes Chapter 3- Teachers Fighting for Change The Marginalization of Education Teachers Exiting the Classroom States Making Changes to Support Teachers Mandatory Expulsions? Learning from Minnesota Social Justice and Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policy Failure Zero-Tolerance Policies Standing Up and Fighting Back Reversing the Trend Notes Chapter 4- Classroom Management and Teacher Support Classroom Behavior management Strategies Is Corporal Punishment the Answer? Welfare of the Teacher Equity Mindedness The Challenges are Real Effective Classroom Management Administrators' Efforts Impact of Generation Z as Teachers Reluctance is Dealing with Violence Supportive Leadership Reversing the Trend Notes Chapter 5- Intervention, Training, and Retaining Every Teacher as an Intervention Practitioner Intervention Programs A Look at PBIS Training Discipline as Intervention Behavior Intervention Strategy: Crowd-Friending Professional Development: Training for Teachers Who Expect to Work with Generation Z Students Teacher Education Program Training Retaining Teachers The Challenges to Improving Recruitment and Teacher Retention Reversing the Trend Notes Index About the Author