Teacher retention (degree, expensive, teachers, master's)

[odinloki1]

I was thinking about this a bit, and I want to hear some opinions. How important do you think (good) teacher retention is to the achievement of students and schools.

If you aren't a teacher please add how you would help to retain them. Any good ideas?

[FarNorthDallas]

Our district does not want to retain teachers for very long because they get too expensive. They like them from their 1st-5th year and then they want them to move on. The district does pretty well for itself academically. It's a majority minority district but gets good results. Sometimes long term teachers get burned out and aren't that good. (ETA - excpetion are the "star" teachers in science and those Teacher of the Year types.)

[ggluvbug]

Our district tries to retain teachers. I think that it is important to retain teachers and have teachers do continuing education. I learned so much from my Master's Degree. It made me a better teacher and more valuable to my district.