The Teacher Training Crisis — Can the Church Address the Adventist Educator Shortage?

Executive summary

The Adventist education system — the second-largest Protestant school network in the world — faces an existential staffing crisis. With 10,457 schools employing 123,590 teachers and educating 2,425,287 students across more than 100 countries (as of 2024), the system's scale is extraordinary. Yet this very scale amplifies a growing vulnerability: the inability to recruit and retain sufficient Adventist educators.