ABSTRACT: This paper summarizes and analyzes eleven literary sources that studied various influential factors that affected teacher retention during the pandemic. From these articles and other research, three themes emerge for the audience to consider. The first theme to emerge was why teacher turnover was lower during the pandemic's initial stages than in the later stages; teachers felt that with a lesser workload, they were able to focus on teaching. The second theme was for district leaders and principals to focus more on school characteristics and school improvements to increase job demands and resources. The last theme was that school leaders should reallocate resources to minimize disruptive student behaviors.        

  

Keywords: Covid-19, Teacher Turnover, Rural Schools, Teacher Characteristics, School Characteristics, Wellbeing.