Our next series of episodes dives into the Scaling Education Pathways in Illinois initiative, a collaboration between nine communities to build streamlined teacher career pathways that begin in high school, extend into post-secondary, and continue towards initial job placement. In the first episode of this series, you will hear from our colleagues Jim O’Connor at Advance Illinois and Ernesto Matias, Chief Academic Officer for the Illinois State Board of Education, about the nature of the state’s teacher shortage and efforts to curtail it.