Brass Tacks Innovations

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We partner with schools and organizations to enhance your creative capacity to reframe and solve challenging problems in a dynamic educational landscape.

The graphic depicts Brass Tacks' Teacher Retention Model. The model borrows from the Job Demands and Resources Model common in industries other than education. The model also incorporates intentional adult social-emotional learning skills development and centers the school leader as the most important locus of control for decreasing teacher attention through increased, humanizing teacher support.
The image displays a quote from Brass Tacks Substack on teacher retention: "Beyond content, teaching is about interacting with real people—students, parents, colleagues—all day long. Each of these encounters can spark a range of emotional reactions. Over time, these daily emotional ups and downs can shape a teacher’s job satisfaction, resilience, and effectiveness in the classroom, and too many down days can lead to teacher dissatisfaction and turnover."
The image depicts the application of the Job Demands Resource model to education. It compares Personal, Classroom, and Workplace Demands with Personal, Classroom, and Workplace Resources, with School Leaders in the center as essential to managing the balance between demands and resources. The impact of the leaders' work directly impacts teacher well-being.
The image depicts a quote from a Substack post on how schools could use AI as a topic of inquiry rather than as a technology tool.
The image presents a quote from the linked Substack post: "Here's the shift: Instead of implementing AI tools for classroom instruction or administrative tasks, schools could focus on teaching students to critically analyze AI itself."
The illustration depicts the Affective Events Theory, supporting the post's statements about how thousands of events impact teachers on a daily basis and lead to emotional responses. Emotional impact ties into a teacher's decision to stay or leave the profession, making an awareness of the Affective Events Theory a useful tool in leaders' and teachers' toolbox.
The image presents an illustration of the complexity educators face today. The diagram centers the individual, surrounded by complexities in social, policy, school, and personal domains. The main point of the illustration is to highlight how many different and complex factors surround educators on a daily basis, contributing to the stress and burnout of teachers and leaders.
The image depicts a road sign that reads "Attention" against a blue sky background. The image aligns to the article's subject of school leader attention to AI.
The image depicts the title slide for Module 1 in our upcoming course on teacher retention.
The image depicts a slide noting the impact of stress on teachers. It also presents an image illustrating how emotions are formed so as to inform educators about how they might be able to better manage and regulate emotion during their work.
The image depicts Australian measures of health and well-being across various industries, highlighting school leaders experience above average stress and stress-related health threats.
The image displays an introduction slide to our upcoming course, "A Blueprint for Teacher Retention".
The image presents a map of the US, indicating which states face the greatest threat of teacher departure. Ranking moves from darkest green, or lowest threat, to lightest green, or greatest threat.
The image depicts a female athlete running through foggy woods. The image supports the Substack's post discussing teachers as learning athletes.
The image presents an image of a female runner in a park in the fog. The image connects to the post's title and topic, "Are Teachers the 'Learning Athletes' of Our Schools?"
The image depicts our teacher retention model, which draws from the Job Demands and Resources model widely used in industries outside education.