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K-12 Lens 2025: Insights and Strategies to Strengthen Your Workforce

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About this webinar

Building and keeping a strong team takes more than just filling roles. It takes strategy.

Join us for a powerful session that brings two years of national survey data to life, alongside real-world perspectives from district leaders. Based on responses from more than 800 K-12 leaders, K-12 Lens 2025 offers a comprehensive look at the state of the educator labor market, and how school systems are adapting to meet both immediate staffing needs and long-term workforce goals.

This webinar explores the trends, pressure points, and bright spots shaping the future of recruiting, hiring, and retaining great educators.

What you’ll learn:

  • The current state of the teacher pipeline, including which roles are hardest to fill and how conditions have shifted
  • What successful districts are doing to improve recruitment and retention
  • How onboarding, early-career support, and professional learning are influencing workforce stability
  • The role of district branding, PD strategy, and internal alignment in attracting and keeping top talent
  • How collaboration across teams is leading to stronger, more sustainable staffing outcomes

Why attend?

Staffing affects every part of a district, from instruction and student outcomes to financial planning and strategic initiatives.

This session is for anyone involved in building and sustaining a strong school workforce. You’ll walk away with:

  • A data-informed view of current workforce conditions
  • Insights into how peers are adapting their hiring and retention strategies
  • Ideas to strengthen coordination across functions like HR, instruction, and finance
  • A clearer path forward for planning and decision-making in the year ahead

See where K-12 staffing is heading and what steps your district can take to get ahead.

Featured Speakers

Susan Walters

Solutions Director, Frontline Education

Susan Walters has spent the last decade helping K-12 districts strengthen their approach to recruiting, developing, and retaining staff. As Solutions Director at Frontline Education, she works closely with school leaders to address workforce challenges through strategy, technology, and cross-functional alignment.

With deep expertise in human capital management and professional growth, Susan brings a practical perspective to what’s working — and what’s not — in today’s educator labor market.

Rebecca Strott

SVP, Market Intelligence, C+C

Rebecca Strott leads the research behind K-12 Lens 2025 and designed the nationwide survey that powers its findings. With an advanced degree in survey design and over a decade of experience turning data into decision-ready insights, she brings deep expertise in helping organizations understand what people think and why it matters.

In this session, Rebecca will share key data points from the latest survey of K-12 leaders and break down what the numbers reveal about today’s educator workforce.

Woodrow Bailey

Chief Talent Officer, Fort Worth ISD

Woodrow Bailey is the Chief Talent Officer at Fort Worth ISD, where he leads district-wide talent strategy and human capital initiatives. A Certified Professional Human Capital Leader in Education (pHCLE), Woodrow has held key leadership roles in both Fort Worth ISD and Midland ISD, including Executive Director of Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer. Throughout his career, he has focused on building strong, aligned teams and driving HR practices that support school and student success.

Joseph Campbell

Education Consultant for Educational Technology, Connecticut Technical Education and Career System (CTECS)

Joseph Campbell serves as an Education Consultant for Educational Technology at the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System (CTECS). In this capacity, he focuses on integrating and advancing educational technology initiatives across the system’s technical high schools. His responsibilities include overseeing programs such as Digital Media and Information Technology, aiming to enhance students’ technological competencies.

Discover the Frontline Difference

Frontline Education is a leading provider of school administration software, dedicated to helping K-12 leaders achieve their district’s goals. Our solutions empower administrators to manage critical areas like finance, HR, special education, and student health efficiently. Trusted by over 10,000 school district clients, Frontline delivers the insights and tools needed to save time, improve compliance, and support school leaders to drive positive outcomes.

From Hiring to Retention, Frontline Has You Covered

With Frontline’s human capital management solutions, you can hire great people faster, reduce turnover, and give every employee a path to grow. Whether you’re juggling job postings, absences, evaluations, or compliance tasks, Frontline brings it all together in one place, so your team can focus on supporting students, not paperwork.

  • Hire people who stay. Attract the right candidates and set them up for long-term success.
  • Support growth for every employee. Provide professional learning that makes a difference in the classroom.
  • Build trust in your processes. Give staff clarity and confidence from onboarding to evaluations.
  • Create time for the work that matters. Automate the busywork so leaders can focus on people and strategy.
  • Make better decisions, faster. Use clear insights to plan staffing, improve culture, and reduce turnover.
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