. >> seth berg a former colorado teacher of the year, who spent his career in rural areas of southwest colorado. he knows firsthand how tough it is to bring new teachers to small districts. >> we need to do more to train them, encourage them to stay, give them decent salaries. to hire enough people so they don't have so much work. >> as written now a bill being discussed by lawmakers could make rural districts more attractive. the plan would pay college students to student teaching rural districts and give $6000 over three years to teachers to commit to teaching in these areas. >> if we can help with teacher recruitment and specify some of need dealt with on how we retain teachers, by incentivizing education, then i think we do that as well. some think it is a plan that will only train teachers to leave anyway. >> these programs are successful it will supply quality teachers and act as an increase in the motivation for teachers to leave because the increase in quality could be understood an increase in value of of the work teachers are performing. >> in order to pay teachers you have t