Month: September 2017

GLOBAL
EduInternational. EI’s Initial Reaction to the release of the Bank’s World Development Report on Education  “The use of contract teachers is presented as a rational, cost-effective choice for governments with teacher shortages. Paradoxically, such promotion of precarious work is not only counterproductive for developing the teaching profession – it directly contradicts the Bank’s recommendation that better candidates need to be attracted into the profession to improve quality in the long term.

Hechinger Report. How Australia built a better career path for teachers  The professional standards are applied to a broad range of every day practices from the start of a teacher’s career. Teacher accreditation is aligned to the standards, and they are also used in the construction of annual performance and development plans. 

GOV.UK. Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2017

Inside Higher Ed. Tertiary Education Is Indispensable  After new regulations required all teachers to have both a university degree and a relevant professional teaching qualification, three West Bank universities worked together, with support from a renowned British teacher training institution, to radically overhaul their pre-service teacher training program

Teachers College.
1) Providing Hope Through Better Teaching [Kenya]  …the TC program has introduced three components to address the “significant gaps” in support provided to teachers:  A training regimen focused on, among other things, child protection, well-being, pedagogy, curriculum and instruction…
2) Teacher as Activist. [Sept. 28] Dr. Kevin Kumashiro and Dr. A. Lin Goodwin discussed what it means for educators to work to support students who are immigrants.

World Bank. The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise Most teacher training is ineffective, but some approaches work.

UNITED STATES
Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation [AAQEP] new accreditor website. The Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) is a quality assurance association founded in 2017 by professionals in the field of educator preparation. AAQEP is dedicated to strengthening P-20 education through excellent, innovative preparation of educators. 

Associated Press. Concord High School English teacher named Teacher of Year  Heidi Crumrine is an English teacher at Concord High School. … Heidi holds a Master of Arts degree in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University

EdWeek.
1) How Can Teaching Be More Selective and More Diverse at the Same Time?  The crux of the panel discussion was how policymakers and teacher-preparation programs can bolster the diversity of the teaching corps, while still raising the bar on entry into the profession.
2) How ‘Intelligent’ Tutors Could Transform Teaching  …experts argue that teachers need new training not only to use intelligent systems in the classroom but also to prepare students for careers in increasingly technology-integrated fields.
3) More States Are Making It Easier to Transfer Your Teaching License  As we’ve written, the idea that there’s a national teacher shortage appears to be a myth. Shortages do certainly exist, however, in certain geographic regions and subject areas.
4) Prospective Teachers in Arizona to Get Free Tuition. But Will It Help Shortages?
5) Straight Up Conversation: Teach to One CEO Joel Rose [R. Hess blog] Academically, we’re seeing some promising data on the impact of Teach to One. A third-party evaluation conducted by Douglas Ready at Teachers College found that students made annual academic gains equivalent to a half year of additional learning compared to national averages.
6) Teachers Report Weaker Relationships with Students of Color, Immigrants  …research with white teachers who are new to the profession. “They say very strongly, we’re not trained adequately to teach a classroom with all different kinds of kids,” he said. “If we don’t train them to, they’re not going to work to right these biases.”

Hechinger Report.
1) Sending parents useful information about attendance, course progress has big effects, social scientists find  Peter Bergman, an assistant professor of economics and education at Teachers College, Columbia University … has done similar experiments texting parents information about their children’s missed assignments, class attendance and grades.
2) Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology  …whether teachers can be trained online to use the system across the country, especially in more urban settings.

Inside Higher Ed. The Bermuda Triangle of Credit Transfer  “The confluence of these studies confirms that this is a problem, and that transfer students are one of most abused [groups of] students,” said Davis Jenkins, a senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College.

NYTimes. Study: Florida Private School Choice Program Sees Gains  Samuel Abrams, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University … said the American education system must be improved by addressing income inequality, accessible childcare and health care and teacher pay in public schools and not by putting more students in private schools.

NEW YORK STATE
Lohud. Schools, communities get back to ‘Basics’ with early childhood learning  …the committee will be organizing workshops to teach parents about Basics principles, ways to practice Basics with their children, and provide worksheets to use at home.

WalletHub. 2017’s Best & Worst States for Teachers  [New York ranked #1]

NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College. Two new reports on funding residencies, Sustainable Funding Project

Chalkbeat. With a new school year underway, hundreds of teaching positions remain unfilled in New York City  …schools may list the same job more than once in order to advertise the position to teachers with different certifications, officials said. For example, a posting for a computer science teacher could also appear as openings for math and science teachers.

NYTimes. De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.  But researchers, including Aaron Pallas, chairman of the department of education policy at Columbia University’s Teachers College, who have looked at the program’s results so far say they range from mixed to disappointing.

GLOBAL
Chalkbeat. Does England’s rapid expansion of charter-like ‘academies’ hold a lesson for the U.S.? According to an analysis by the British government, about half of primary schools changed their curriculum, how they evaluated teachers, and who was in school leadership. Relatively few lengthened the school day or hired uncertified teachers.

EENET. Teacher Education for Inclusion: EENET Seminar and Video Launch [Univ. of Manchester]

EducationInternational. EI promotes quality open educational resources This includes an increased domestic budget mobilisation for education, well-resourced education institutions, as well as support and incentives for qualified and trained teachers and higher education personnel. 

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 2018 Awards Nominations [Due Oct. 12]
2) Study: Secondary Math Teacher Candidates Need More Preparation in Statistics

AFT. We need more black male educators   I attended a program that encourages minority male high school students interested in engineering to pursue careers in education…

BustEd Pencils. No Student Teaching? No Problem: Wisconsin Wants You. The American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence will be granting teaching licenses in Wisconsin.

Chronicle. Technology? It’s Just Another Knitting Needle “I was cutting and pasting from one document to another, and they said, Wait, what did you just do?” recalls Ms. Baynum, 54, an associate professor of teacher education.

Education Commission of the States. Teacher License Reciprocity: 50-State Review This policy report defines and provides a 50-state review of teacher license reciprocity, explores how state-specific licensing requirements impact the teacher labor market, and includes examples of national and state efforts to facilitate reciprocity.

University of Washington. Elementary Teacher Preparation at the University of Washington

EdWeek.
1) Can Minority-Serving Colleges Help Create a More-Diverse Teaching Force? …BranchED has already helped … including intern and student-teacher ratings, and assessments that students take, to make sure everyone is on track to become a qualified, certified teacher.
2) Most of the U.S. Still Uses Common Core, Despite Blowback …common core provides instructors with the necessary structure and guidance, which is especially important for new teachers.
3) Q&A: One-on-One with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos DeVos said that Title II, the main program for teacher quality, is “much too prescriptive and was really shown to not have any real effect or impact.” States, she said, can use other federal funding for teacher development.
4) State School Chiefs Offer ‘Playbook’ on Improving Teacher Preparation
5) Teachers Are Quitting Because They’re Dissatisfied. That’s a Crisis, Scholars Say Meanwhile, LPI researchers advocated for three main policy fixes: better compensation, including service scholarships and loan forgiveness programs; high-quality teacher preparation and support, including teacher residency programs, grow-your-own models, and induction programs for novice teachers…

Hechinger Report. In-demand graduate programs become a cash cow for colleges in financial distress Graduate debt has been spiraling… That includes for such degrees as a master’s in education (up from $33,910 to $50,879)…

NEA. Resources for Educators supporting DREAMers

NPR Ed. How One Group Is Working To Build A More Diverse Teaching Force …The Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity or BranchED. They are aiming programming at the 253 educator-preparation programs at federally-designated colleges and universities that serve African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.

NEW YORK STATE
Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) [alternative accreditation pathway]
1) AAQEP vision mission expectations
2) AAQEP update September 2017 for NY

National Review. Let SUNY’s Charter Schools Act Like Charter Schools [F. Hess OpEd] New York should embrace this measured attempt to see whether a high-performing, university-based charter authorizer can helps its schools do a better job of securing talented teachers.

New York Post. The right way to open up the teaching field The SUNY process requires a would-be teacher to get 30 hours of formal instruction, spend 100 hours in a working classroom… Teachers colleges, teacher unions and other established interests hate this kind of alternate certification because it threatens their control, and their cash flow.

New York State Education Department (NYSED)
1) edTPA Handbook Review Survey [deadline Oct. 1]
2) Eight Things Every Educator Should know about New York’s ESSA Plan. The state will examine changes to field experiences and placement requirements for prospective teachers…

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) Here’s what Carmen Fariña’s top deputies have on their plates this school year Dorita Gibson, Senior Deputy Chancellor, Division of School Support …oversees the city’s network of field centers designed to provide teacher training and other support services to schools.
2) In Harlem, these elders devote their golden years to improving local schools Mantell said the city has recruited 45 teachers in the last few years to pursue certification to become librarians.
3) In new memoir, Eva Moskowitz offers a look behind the curtain at Success Academy — and tries to reshape her reputation She also outlines the many topics the training covers beyond what she says teachers colleges tend to offer — a program that she solidified through a partnership with Touro College starting in 2012.
4) In year three of New York City’s massive school turnaround program, the big question is: What’s next? “Enough time has elapsed that there is an appetite for looking at results,” said Aaron Pallas, a Teachers College professor who has studied the program.

City and State New York. Teach for America New York Executive Director Charissa Fernández on this year’s corps, DACA and teacher training

DNA Info. 43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says Meanwhile, 92 percent of middle schools and 53 percent of high schools have no teacher licensed by the city for health education.

EdWeek. Former Teacher Inspires Students to Follow in Her Footsteps When Mayme Hostetter started teaching English at a charter middle school in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, she had no idea how much of an impact she would make on her students. Now, more than a decade later, 11 of Hostetter’s former students have begun teaching careers of their own at the Relay Graduate School of Education—a residency-based program where Hostetter has served as a national dean since 2008.

The Atlantic. The Most Polarizing Education Reformer in New York City And the reason I got into academia was to be a teacher at the college level—at UVA [the University of Virginia] and Vanderbilt.

 

GLOBAL
Education International. Africa’s education leadership works towards union unity  Sossion went on to underline the seven signals of teacher deprofessionalisation, which is another major challenge for African teacher unions, i.e. the influx of untrained teachers, the casualisation of teaching…

Deutsche Welle. OECD education study reveals gender gap and strong disparity  Among young people studying to become teachers, the reverse is true: 78 percent of them are female.

NYTimes. Mexican Students Hijack Tanker Truck, Buses and Kidnap Cops  The events marked the latest chapter of violence at a rural teachers college where 43 students were kidnapped in 2014 and remain missing.

UNITED STATES
Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity. An Overview of MSI Educator Preparation Programs

Center for American Progress. America Needs More Teachers of Color and a More Selective Teaching Profession  States, teacher preparation programs, and alternative certification programs are taking steps to build a more diverse and selective pool of educators.

Chalkbeat.
1) Certification rules and tests are keeping would-be teachers of color out of America’s classrooms. Here’s how.  A Chalkbeat analysis has found that virtually every step in the common teacher certification process risks disproportionately excluding prospective teachers of color.
2) Efforts to ‘raise the bar’ for becoming a teacher are running headlong into efforts to diversify the profession. Now what?  But there has been only limited discussion of the fact that these two objectives — diversifying the profession and making it harder to enter — are often at cross purposes,
3) This top-rated black teacher may lose her job over one test. Are ‘high standards’ working? David Steiner, a professor at Johns Hopkins and a member of the Maryland State Board of Education… “What’s racist is the way we put the least well prepared teachers in the classrooms of our most disadvantaged students,” he said.

Council of Chief State School Officers. Transforming Educator Preparation: Lessons Learned from Leading States

Deans for Impact. The elusive evidence of educator-prep program effectiveness…exists!  If we do not gather more actionable data, policymakers will either craft accountability policies based on questionable statistics, or follow the lead of states such as Utah and Arizona that are de-professionalizing teaching entirely.

Education Reform Now. Teacher Education Reform Now  Recent history validates that the current teacher preparation program accreditor, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), is no better than other accreditors… 

EdWeek.
1) Could an App Help Teachers Recognize Their Own Biases?  The app will be available for free by the end of the year, according to Shah. Once completed, he hopes teacher-prep programs and school districts will use EQUIP to train preservice and even veteran teachers.
2) Kansas education board struggles with teacher shortage  A teacher vacancy committee has recommended an elementary licensing process that would require a district to identify people with “great potential” to be a teacher… The process to become a licensed elementary school teacher would take two years.
3) Parents Prefer Good Neighborhood Schools Over More Choice, Poll Finds  When asked how to improve teaching, 73 percent of parents said to treat teachers like professionals, raise hiring standards, and give new and struggling teachers more support and training.
4) State school board proposes lowering teacher requirements  The Charleston [WV] Gazette-Mail reported Saturday that among the proposed changes are exempting education bachelor’s degree holders who meet minimum grade point averages from having to pass a basic knowledge test.
5) State School Chiefs Offer ‘Playbook’ on Improving Teacher Preparation
6) Teachers’ Pay Lags Farthest Behind Other Professionals in U.S., Study Finds  “While the rest of the world has prioritized teaching and learning, and is investing heavily in equity and teacher preparation, 36 U.S. states are spending less on education than before the Great Recession,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers…

NEPC. Our Children Deserve Better: A Call to Resist Washington’s Dangerous Vision for U.S. Education   The rhetoric  and  reforms  that  attack  and  undermine teachers serve to lower the standards for teaching, hinder effective teaching  practices,  create  revolving  doors  of  employment,  de-professionalize  teaching,  and  deregulate  teacher  preparation.

New York Post [OpEd]. The outrageously mythical ‘teacher shortage’  Mike Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency, adds that, between 2008 and 2016, student enrollment was flat but the teaching force expanded from 3.4 million to more than 3.8 million, a rise of 12.4 percent.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. New York’s most controversial teacher certification exam is now a little easier to pass  The Board of Regents voted Tuesday to drop the passing score on the edTPA … from 41 to 38 starting in January 2018.

Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.
1) CICU Member Campus CEO Sign-on Letter: Masters-in-Education
2) CICU opposes SUNY Charter School Institute’s proposed teacher certification regulation

Education Reform Now. On Teacher Prep, Give SUNY Charter Schools A Chance to Succeed Where Others Have Failed  …in general the research indicates a weak relationship between specific teacher certification standards and student outcomes.

Education Week.
1) How Virtual Reality Is Helping Train New Teachers  David Cantaffa, an assistant provost for educator preparation for the State University of New York, the project funder, was surprised by the extent to which the VR made him feel transported to the classroom.
2) New York Lowers Required Score on Teacher Certification Exam  A task force of more than 30 representatives from higher education and K-12 has been working on amending the edTPA requirements over the last nearly two years. 

NYSED.
1) edTPA Handbook Review Survey – Deadline Oct. 1:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/edtpahandbook2017
2) Board Of Regents Approves NY’S Every Student Succeeds Act Plan
3) Board Of Regents Revises Teacher Certification Requirements  The Standard Setting Panel recommended a passing score of 40 (the current passing score is 41) that would be implemented after a four-year phase-in period [passing score of 38 during 2018 and 2019].
4) Board of Regents Approves Learning Standards for the Arts

NYSED Board of Regents, Sept. Meeting.
1) Proposed Amendment to Section 80-5.17 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to Permanently Extend the Option for Certain Out-of-State Candidates to be Eligible for a Conditional Initial Certificate
2) Update on the edTPA Standard Setting Committee and Amendment to Section 80-1.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to Extend the edTPA Safety Net and Revise the Eligibility Criteria for the Multiple Measures Review Process  Under the recommended phase-in period beginning January 1, 2018, the new passing score for the edTPA would be 38.

NYTimes [OpEd]. A Way to Get Great Teachers Into the Classroom  So as a teacher who recently had to jump through the New York certification hoops, I was pleased to learn that the State University of New York Charter Schools Institute, which authorizes charter operators, is considering allowing charter schools to certify their teachers themselves. 

TimesUnion. New York just made it easier for teachers to get certified

NEW YORK CITY
CBS New York. New York City Schools Are Inadequate On Sex Education, Stringer Says  Stringer’s audit also found that 88 percent of middle schools and high schools in the city do not have a licensed health education teacher – with most of them being middle schools. Also, in middle and high schools, 97 percent of health instructors are not licensed, the audit said.

Chalkbeat.
1) Diverse charter schools in New York City to get boost from Walton money  The Century Foundation and researchers at Teachers College at Columbia University and Temple University will receive additional funding from Walton to study diverse charter schools…
2) New York City wants to know: How effective is its training for pre-K teachers?  The NYU study will use measures of student behavior such as self-regulation, third-grade test scores, and how often students are held back to track the impact of the city’s different teacher training programs.

National Review. How a Democratic New York City Councilwoman Became a Crusader for School Choice  In this book, I’ve recounted some of what I saw: textbooks that arrived halfway through the school year; … forcing prospective teachers to waste half a day getting fingerprinted.

Teachers College.
1) Ensuring that Every Student Succeeds: TC’s Goodwin and Parkes offer advice to New York State on implementing ESSA  New York … must do more to afford aspiring teachers substantial time in the field to gain deep and detailed classroom knowledge; to ensure that its teaching force mirrors students’ diversity; and to remove certification requirements that discourage both teacher diversity and excellence.
2) New TR@TC website

GLOBAL
Education International. Mexico: global campaign demands justice for 43 missing Mexican students  On September 26th, 2014, students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College gathered to head to Mexico City  to attend the commemoration of the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre

Education Week.
1) Cellphones, Apps Power Learning for Syrian Refugees  …there’s limited information about how tech access will affect educational outcomes, if at all, said Mary Mendenhall, an assistant professor of practice in the International and Comparative Education Program at Teachers College.
2) Mexico offers teaching jobs to ‘dreamers’ returning from US

NCEE. Empowered Educators Aug. 24th Webinar. Featuring: L. Darling-Hammond, A. Lin Goodwin, Pasi Sahlberg, Marc Tucker, etc.

Unite for Quality Education. Evaluating the Liberian School Privatisation Program  Considering that PSL schools receive enormous increases in spending and inspection, and, as the midline report notes, had “first pick of better trained” recently graduated teachers, this situation has the potential to create a two-tiered education system in Liberia.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. How Teacher Education Can Elevate Teacher Quality: Highlights From Sept./Oct. JTE

Business Insider. America’s teacher shortage is leading some states to lower their requirements to become one  A teacher shortage has led legislators in several states to lower requirements to become a public school educator.

Chalkbeat.
1) Teachers protected by DACA launch a new school year under a threatening cloud  Teach For America is joining many other education organizations in continuing to lobby Congress to pass the DREAM Act, which would create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children.
2) XQ is taking over TV to make the case that high school hasn’t changed in 100 years. But is that true?  …Ansley Erickson, an assistant professor of history and education at Columbia University Teachers College. But, she said, there has been a massive transformation of high school…  Schneider elaborated on what has changed: “A century ago, teachers were largely untrained and oversaw very large classes in which rote memorization was the rule.

Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). CFP

Education Week.
1) Could an Apprenticeship Be a Viable Way to Prepare Special Educators?  An Ohio teacher-educator has an idea that she thinks will fill persistant teacher shortages in special education fields—and potentially revolutionize teacher preparation.
2) Differences in Performance WITHIN Schools: Why So Much Greater Than in Other Countries?  New teachers, fresh out of teachers college, get very little support from the veteran teachers and often leave the occupation early feeling they have failed at teaching.
3) Senate Panel Rejects Trump Teacher-Funding Cut, School Choice Proposals  The legislation would leave intact the main federal programs aimed at teacher training and after-school funding.
4) Trump School Choice Proposals, K-12 Cuts Again Rebuffed by Senators But the teacher training program isn’t out of the woods just yet. The House of Representatives spending bill, which will have to be conferenced with the Senate measure, would seek to scrap that program entirely

NYTimes.
1) Football Favoritism at F.S.U.: The Price One Teacher Paid  Ms. Suggs decided to leave Florida State, after five years, with an education specialist degree — one step short of her doctorate.
2) More Protests of Trump’s Plan to End DACA Expected  “It’s like my life is crumbling on top of me,” said Salgado, who graduated from Murray State University in Kentucky last year and in is her second year as a high school Spanish teacher just outside Nashville, Tennessee.
3) Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues  “Teachers can’t help but be seduced to make greater use of the technology, given these efforts by tech companies,” said Samuel E. Abrams, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Wall Street Journal. Teacher Shortage Prompts Some States to Lower the Bar  In the face of a worsening teacher shortage, several states around the country are loosening requirements for credentials that will make it easier to teach in public school classrooms.

Washington Post.
1) Most teachers believe that kids have different ‘learning styles.’ Here’s why they are wrong.  I frequently hear from teachers that they learned about the theory in teacher education classes. I’ve looked at all of the well-known educational psychology textbooks, and none of them present the idea as correct. But neither do they debunk it.
2) The false narrative behind a glitzy live television show about school reform  But a century ago, almost everything else was different. Teachers were largely untrained. Rote memorization was the rule. Students brought a hodgepodge of books from home and were instructed in an unpredictable range of content. 

WCVS [Virginia]. Superintendents fear teacher shortage is near ‘crisis situation’  We checked the numbers at UVA-Wise. In 2011, the teacher education program had 60 students enrolled. This year, that number is down to just 29.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. After blasting Success’s board chair, Chancellor Rosa to visit Success Academy on first day of school  At a recent conference, Rosa strongly condemned a policy shift that would benefit Success Academy — a SUNY proposal to allow charter schools to certify their own teachers.

Education Week. Some New York Charter Schools May Soon Certify Their Own Teachers  …training for charter school teachers working toward the special license (30 hours of instruction and 100 hours of classroom training) wouldn’t even equal that of a cosmetologist (1,000 hours of instruction), or a real estate broker (120 hours of instruction and two years of on-the-job experience.)

Hechinger Report. OPINION: As New York City pubic schools open, here are three strategies to help every student succeed under the new education law [OpEd by A. L. Goodwin & K. Parkes]

HuffPost. Opposition Rallies Against Plan To Put Unqualified People In Classrooms  Comments can be submitted online or mailed to Charter Schools Institute, State University of New York, 41 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207 by September 10.

Lohud. NY teachers wanted: Here’s why  New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

NY DailyNews. Let charter schools certify teachers  Charter schools wouldn’t be starting from scratch, because many already run their own teacher training programs.

NYSED. Comments on the Governance, Structure and Operations of SUNY Authorized Charter Schools Pertaining to Teacher Compliance

TimesUnion.
1) New York education leaders: Scrap charter school teacher proposal: Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa speak out
2) There’s more than one way to train a great teacher  The most vocal critics of this approach are entrenched in traditional university schools of education. With some notable exceptions, universities fail to train the teaching force that kids need.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. With Trump moving to end DACA, New York City leaders pledge support for students and teachers  Teach for America has actively recruited almost 200 “DACA-mented” teachers to its corps. New York State officials in 2016 authorized DACA recipients to earn certain teacher certifications and professional licenses. It is unclear how those teachers will be impacted.

New York Times. For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year  In May 2016, New York State allowed DACA recipients to get licenses for teaching…The city’s Department of Education, whose schools reopened for the year on Thursday, does not keep track of how many teachers have DACA. But Teach for America, the national program that places young teachers in low-income neighborhoods, does. Twelve of the organization’s 180 teachers with DACA are in New York classrooms…

Teachers College.
1) Digital Learning for the K-8 Classroom  …Detra Price-Dennis and top professional development platform Teach Away, with the aim of delivering online digital literacy training that helps K-8 educators maximize student learning outcomes in the classroom.
2) Heeding Her Call: Urban Education responds to Mariana Souto-Manning’s framework for re-centering minoritized communities in social justice research

ThinkProgress. Meet Gabe, a DACA recipient and aspiring South Bronx science teacher who’s helping low-income kids