HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) launched the newly refreshed Teach in PA website — a resource for individuals interested in obtaining a career in education. The revamped site includes a user-friendly navigation feature that allows individuals to more easily find relevant job opportunities.

‘We know that to build and sustain a robust, high-quality educator workforce, we need to meet people where they are — whether they’re in a high school classroom, post-baccalaureate, or contemplating a career switch,’ said Acting Secretary of Education Dr. Carrie Rowe. ‘Teach in PA is an easy-to-navigate, engaging new tool that we can add to our arsenal as we continue to make a case for choosing a career in education here in the commonwealth.’

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration, representatives said, is committed to bolstering the educator pipeline in Pennsylvania by providing support, streamlined services and technical assistance to current and future educators.

The website is set up to enable visitors to ‘choose their own adventure,’ beginning with a choice between ‘I want to teach’ or ‘I’m interested in other education careers.’ From there, selection criteria will guide users through a series of questions to provide tailored results, including whether users have a degree or career credentials, if they’re currently certified to teach in Pennsylvania, and where they are on their educational journey, among other selections to customize their search. The site also features a comprehensive, sortable of education career opportunities throughout the commonwealth that can be filtered by geographic location.

The relaunched Teach in PA website builds on the Shapiro Administration’s efforts to recruit and retain teachers by working collaboratively with leaders in the education field to ensure there is a robust pipeline of educators in place, representatives said. Some of those efforts include reducing teacher certification processing times by more than 10 weeks, making intern certificates free to aspiring educators, creating a new Career and Technical Education (CTE) program in education for high school students, developing accelerated certification programming to prospective special educators, and creating and expanding the Student Teacher Support Program to provide a stipend to student teachers.

In his 2025-26 budget proposal, Shapiro has requested a $20 million increase for the Student Teacher Support Program, administered by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA); a $2.5 million increase for teacher professional development; and $55 million to provide funds to licensed Child Care Centers for teacher recruitment and retention, administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS).

As of the 202324 school year, Pennsylvania’s teacher workforce stands at 123,190, with the largest shortages in grades 4-8, special education pre-K-12, mathematics 7-12, life and physical sciences 7-12, and Career and Technical Education 7-12. The United States Department of Education has designated these areas as critical shortages. Since the 2021-22 school year, 1,524 new educators have been certified in the commonwealth.