This handbook, based on Wallace’s Pathways to Teaching Careers initiative to recruit and prepare teachers from nontraditional backgrounds, offers a step-by-step guide to designing programs that can enlarge and diversify the pool of teachers for hard-to-staff schools. Such programs train and certify non-teaching school employees, uncertified teachers and returning Peace Corps volunteers and place them in areas of significant need. This guide can help universities and districts to cooperatively find candidates for these programs, develop a curriculum, ensure adequate support for participants and assess costs.