This resource from Education Resource Strategies offers a look into innovative ways school system leaders can shift policies to allow teachers to thrive in their roles in the long term. These shifts involve moving beyond traditional recruitment and retention efforts to address the root causes of teacher shortages and high turnover. The resource encourages leaders to utilize statewide policies to encourage and support research-based redesign, paying careful attention to the balance of policy flexibility and accountability, to create incentives and provide financial support for district-level innovation, and to use statewide data to support decision-making. Offering examples from a number of state and district contexts, including the Texas’ Teacher Incentive Allotment and North Carolina’s Strategic Dashboard Monitoring Tool, the brief is a rich resource for educational leaders interested in considering innovative ways to support the teaching workforce.