Homegrown teachers make big differences in rural school districts

When teachers and administrators return to their rural hometowns to work in the schools, they can make a huge impact. They understand what it’s like to live in remote areas, everybody in the community knows them and they often stick around.

In one superintendent’s case, he’s increased the number of high school graduates and students who attend college.

Guests:

• Tom O’Malley, Superintendent, Modoc Joint Unified School District
• Cara Nixon, Journalism intern, EdSource

Read more from EdSource:

• When California educators return to their rural hometowns, the result can be ‘brain gain’
• How one rural school district is overcoming geographic barriers to higher education

Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.