The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted schools across the country and has exacerbated education shortages in localities that were already struggling. Stakeholders at both state and local education agencies reflected the need to connect and learn from their peers about emerging policies or practices to address educator shortages. This brief describes how the Region 1 Comprehensive Center (R1CC), in collaboration with the R3CC, R9CC, R12CC, and the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center), supported five state teams through a community of practice (CoP). The collaborative included five 60-minute virtual meetings that were focused on the following topics: (1) Leveraging educator preparation programs and engaging teacher candidates to fill learning gaps; (2) Understanding how addressing substitute teacher shortages may exacerbate equitable access to quality teaching; (3) Innovative teacher staffing models; (4) Preventing teacher attrition and early retirement; and (5) Investing in teachers using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act.