Educator Insights from Pandemic to Recovery: Trends from the 2022 Tennessee Educator Survey

Key Findings

1. While teacher satisfaction has returned to pre-pandemic levels, overall job satisfaction and feelings about school climate remain high.
2. Teachers identified student attendance as the top challenge in the 2021-22 school year.
3. Teachers reported spending more time on student disciplinary issues in the 2021-22 school year compared to previous years.
4. In 2021-22, more teachers reported that they were able to cover a similar amount of content from their formal curriculum as they would have expected to in a pre-pandemic year.