Month: November 2016

INTERNATIONAL
The Independent. The 11 best school systems in the world

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AACTE. Sign up for Action Alerts to advocate for #teacherprep

EducationWeek.
1) Get to Know Donald Trump’s Education Transition Team …make sure our nation’s institutions of higher education continue to be open to students from around the globe, Manning said.
2) Professional Reflections of a Mentor Teacher
3) School Choice Advocate Betsy DeVos Named Ed. Sec.: What Does That Mean?
4) Study Points to Need for Diversity Training in Teacher Prep
5) What’s Missing From the Discussion of Teacher Shortages? A Researcher Explains

Chalkbeat.
1) What a Betsy DeVos appointment would tell us about Trump’s education plans
2) My education career has focused on poor students of color. Why I’m rethinking that in the wake of Trump’s election [OpEd] … voters identified by exit polls as “white without a college degree” helped Donald Trump win the election
3) What you should know about Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary pick — and what her choice might tell us about his plans

EdSource. New campaign promotes power of teachers to reduce stress of traumatized students

Hechinger Report. Trump names school-choice advocate DeVos to his cabinet, ushering in a new era in education [OpEd]

iTeachAZ. Preparing Teachers to Teach

Sleeter, C. (2016). A Critical Race Theory Look at Teacher education

TeachThought.Teachers, This Is What I Need From You

TimesFreePress. UTC works to better prepare future teachers

WashingtonPost. Trump terrifies public school advocates with education secretary pick Sen. Lamar Alexander: I also look forward to working with her on the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED. Addressing Bullying, Harassment, Intimidation, and Discrimination in our Schools

NEW YORK CITY
Rebell, M. Upholding Students’ Rights in the Trump Era [TC Prof. Michael A. Rebell] … the primary purpose of public education is to prepare students to function productively as civic participants.

INTERNATIONAL
VancouverSun. Court ruling to force hiring of hundreds of teachers in B.C.

NATIONAL
AACTE.
1) Invitation to ‘Ed Tech in Teacher Prep’ Challenge
2) Vote by Nov. 28 in AACTE’s Board of Directors Election

CALDER. Evaluating Prospective Teachers: Testing The Predictive Validity Of The Edtpa (Nov. Update)

EducationWeek.
1) After the Election, DACA Teachers Wonder About Their Future in the Classroom
2) Black Teachers Feel Pigeonholed, Report Finds Emdin, an associate professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who has studied race and education…
3) Michigan Teacher Prep Initiative Gets STEM Teachers into High-Needs Schools
4) Study Points to Need for Diversity Training in Teacher Prep

EsteemJournal. Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz with Elizabeth Bishop: Learning Through Dialogue How can teacher education programs and coursework prepare folks to celebrate diversity and teach toward justice?

Getting Smart. Preparing Teachers for a Project-Based World

Hechinger Report. Why do black teachers leave—and how do we fix that? Hechinger Twitter chat explores how to recruit, retain black teachers [incl. TC Prof. C. Emdin]

HuffPost. Teaching Election 2016 the Morning After and for the Next Four Years [A. Singer blog]

InsideHigherEd. Presidents’ Message to President-Elect More than 100 campus leaders urge Trump to take more forceful stand against “harassment, hate and acts of violence.”

NYTimes. Bullying in the Age of Trump

Springer. Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment: Affordances and Constraints for Teacher Education Programs [Authors include TC alum Dr. L. Caraballo]

The Atlantic. How Discrimination Shapes Parent-Teacher Communication … education schools should help teacher candidates “understand these troubling disparities and … racial stereotypes”

Univ. of Kentucky. Kentucky Joins $25 Million Federal Program to Develop Effective Educators

VCU News. Participants in the School of Education’s Richmond Teacher Residency program share lessons they’ve learned

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED.
1) Amendment …to Automatically Extend the Time Validity of Certain Expired Provisional, Initial or Transitional Certificates for Three Years
2) Board of Regents Approves $425,000 in Grants for Education Department Priorities
3) New Federal Regulations Concerning Teacher Preparation Programs
4) Regents 2017-2018 State Budget Priorities
5) State Education Commissioner Elia and A.G. Schneiderman Offer Guidance To Help Ensure Schools Are Safe Havens For Learning

NYSED Regent Nan Eileen Mead @NanEileenMead [Twitter] Parents: what is your child’s school doing to prevent acts of bigotry, hatred, harassment and bullying?

New York State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. 2016-16 Annual Report

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) Eva Moskowitz: I will work with Trump, but not as U.S. education secretary
2) Record number of New York City students are going to college, vocational programs

NYTimes.
1) Manhattan School in Zoning Battle Is Struggling, but It Has Its Fans
2) Report Spurs CUNY to End Its Contracts With Outside Lobbyists

New York Review of Books. When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens? Education and the Commercial Mindset by Samuel E. Abrams, Director of TC NCSPE

Politico. Cuomo orders CUNY board to review university’s ‘entire senior management’

TC Record
1) Book Review Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education … a perceived or real power imbalance among faculty is a key element in the development of a bullying culture
2) Is All Classroom Conduct Equal?: Teacher Contact With Parents of Racial/Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Adolescents

TC Public Space. Teachers’ Petition to Trump

INTERNATIONAL
Journal of Education Policy. Counting and comparing school performance: an analysis of media coverage of PISA in Australia, 2000–2014 …Australian education is riven with factions where pedagogic philosophy, arguments over teacher training, testing, …fuel debate

IEN. Attempting change from within: Student-centered learning in Mexico The scholarships typically cover 1 to 2 years of living in a community while training to teach. 

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AACTE.
1) Nov. 15 Webinar to Feature Clinical Preparation for Elementary Science, Math Teaching
2) Webinar Recordings, Slides Available for Regulations Overview, Federal Update

EducationWeek.
1) K-12 Education is Lucky to Be Shut Out of This Election, Some Experts Say …pretty happy that the issue is largely off the table, said Jeff Henig, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University…
2) New Survey Focuses on Best Practices in STEM Teacher Training, Retention
3) N.C. Gets New Insights on Teacher Turnover The state should work closely with colleges and universities, the report suggests, to explore ways to increase student interest in careers in teaching
4) When the FBI Targeted School Teachers as Alleged Subversives The subjects of those reports included school teachers, as well as employees of public and private colleges
5) The ‘Change Agents in the Education System’ for This Candidate: Her Parents Juneau praised one bill from Montana Sen. Jon Tester…designed to help the recruitment of teachers in Native American communities.

HechingerReport.
1) The reason so many black teachers leave the job early New report probes why African-American teachers become frustrated with a profession that desperately needs them
2) Game Changer: When teachers prove they can teach all kinds of students [OpEd by SCALE’s Pecheone & Whittaker re edTPA]

HuffingtonPost.
1) Want to Improve Student Achievement? Invest in Teacher Education [Blog: Dean Pam Grossman, Penn GSE]
2) Teacher Education “Reforms” Hurt Children and Learning [Blog: Alan Singer, Hofstra Social Studies Ed] The TeachLive program, piloted at SUNY New Paltz and classroom simulations championed by Elia and Zimpher seems to be based entirely on Ingraham’s doctoral dissertation.

Learning Policy Institute. Webinar: Building a Strong, Sustainable Teacher Workforce

The Education Trust. Through Our Eyes: Perspectives and Reflections From Black Teachers …qualitative data Ed Trust collected from focus group sessions of 150 Black teachers from across the country.

USNews. Lay the Groundwork for Better Teachers Elevating early childhood teaching to the same status and prestige as other highly skilled professions requires raising educational standards.

WashingtonPost. Bipartisan group of senators asks Obama to rein in Education Department proposals

NEW YORK STATE
The New York State Education Department. announced that it is seeking feedback on its “High Concept Ideas” to implement the federal Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA).

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College. TC takes the lead in preparing bilingual counselors to serve the nation’s fastest growing population