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Emporia State'selected Master Teachers tell senators K-12 faces recruitment, pay, literacy and AI challenges
Summary
Seven Kansas Master Teachers, selected by Emporia State University and partners, described classroom work, recruitment challenges in rural districts, literacy training, impacts of generative AI and low pay as factors affecting teacher retention and recruitment across the state.
Seven Kansas Master Teachers visited the Kansas Senate Education Committee to describe classroom practice, recruitment challenges and program supports they said are needed to attract and keep teachers.
Greg (Emporia State University) introduced the 2025 class of master teachers and said the Master Teachers program, established at Emporia State University in 1954 and funded by grants from the Bank of America Foundation, selected seven teachers this year from a pool of 32 applications. He said the class represented geographic diversity across the state.
Each master teacher spoke briefly about classroom experience and local challenges. Andrew Taylor, a biology teacher and robotics coach at Olathe Northwest High School, described integrating engineering and science and student outreach through robotics. Jennifer Gillespie, a social studies teacher at Maxville…
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