Faculty Recruitment & Retention Health Assessment

    Arcadia created the Faculty Recruitment & Retention Health Assessment to help schools clearly identify and solve problems in their recruitment, onboarding, support, and retention strategies.

How the Tool Works

This assessment provides schools with two versions: 

• Administrator Version: Allows leadership teams to evaluate their internal practices and clarify where they see strengths, weaknesses, and points of misalignment within their talent management ecosystem.
• Teacher Version: Gives teachers the opportunity to share their perspectives directly, highlighting where they feel supported, valued, and clear—and where they see gaps or inconsistencies.

Once completed, schools receive comprehensive reports with actionable insights organized into three key categories:

• Areas of Strength: Identifies practices currently working well, which should be celebrated and protected.
• Areas of Weakness: Highlights practices that are unclear, inconsistent, or ineffective, which need intentional and targeted improvement.
• Areas of Divergence: Reveals critical misalignments in perception between administrators or among faculty, prompting important clarifying conversations that build stronger internal alignment.

Why It’s Powerful

What makes Arcadia’s assessment powerful is its clarity, precision, and focus on actionability. Rather than relying on generalized data, this tool allows each school to diagnose exactly what’s happening inside their own institution. It highlights specific and immediate opportunities for improvement, enabling schools to build the kind of environment teachers genuinely want to join and stay within.

This assessment empowers schools to:

• Quickly clarify and close the gaps in their recruitment and retention practices.
• Increase their competitiveness by building stronger, healthier, and clearer systems.
• Create alignment across teams and among teachers about what a healthy faculty ecosystem looks like.
• Address root causes, not just symptoms, of the perceived national teacher shortage.