GLOBAL
Australian Financial Review. Literacy, numeracy and engagement are Dan Tehan’s priorities The education minister Dan Tehan says he has been working closely with university deans of education to see how he can strengthen teacher education.
Mexico News Daily. Teachers present their ‘social struggle’ education plan to AMLO: Union says president has promised to allow automatic allocation of jobs to teacher college grads Juan Melchor, a CNTE spokesman, said the president indicated that the automatic allocation of jobs to teaching students could be signed into law, which he said would be a “historic achievement.” However, Marco Fernández, an education specialist at the Tec. de Monterrey, said that enshrining the right of teaching students to an automatic job upon graduation would violate the constitution.
The Irish Times. The Irish Times view on teacher shortages Financial incentives for students to become teachers in key subjects are also needed along with a system where specialised teachers are employed across groups of schools, as well as remuneration that encourages newly qualified personnel not to emigrate or leave the system.
UNITED STATES
Education Reform Now. A Deep Dive Into Alternative Teacher Prep: New Series will Examine Best Practices, Lessons for the Future
EdWeek.
1) Oregon Schools Rolling Out Indigenous Studies Curriculum Guenther suggests teachers may also need to unlearn their own bias and personal learning experiences from the past.
2) Wanted: Teachers as Diverse as Their Students To help students who may encounter financial barriers on their way to earning a teaching degree, some districts and teacher-preparation programs are pouring resources—seed money—into the efforts.
3) When School’s a Battleground for Transgender Kids, Teachers Learn to Protect, Affirm Them But few professional development providers and teacher-preparation programs show teachers the best practices for working with students of different gender identities.
Inside Higher Education. Scaled-Back HEA Plan Coming Soon? Alexander, the chairman of the Senate education committee, has said he wants to pass an update to the HEA before he retires after next year… But Senator Patty Murray, the Washington Democrat and ranking member on the committee, has repeatedly said she’s not interested in passing legislation that falls short of a comprehensive reauthorization of the higher ed law.
Murfreesboro.com. MTSU, SCORE sign teacher preparation partnership focused on K-12 innovatio Middle Tennessee State University announced Wednesday (Aug. 28) a first-of-its-kind partnership focused on bringing research-supported innovations to how the university prepares students to become K-12 teachers.
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity (SCALE). Call for Proposals, edTPA National Conference 2020 Austin, TX Mar. 26-28 [deadline Nov. 4]
The Atlantic. How to Keep Teachers From Leaving the Profession: After 38 years in education, Judith Harper thinks what teachers are missing is more time to learn from one another. Decades of research in the United States and abroad show that effective teaching is not an innate skill, but a complex craft that requires a great deal of on-the-job training, including participation in peer networks such as the one Harper coached in. That’s why many high-achieving countries, such as Japan, Singapore, China, and Finland, provide ample weekly hours for this type of professional development.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. New York’s state education commissioner has a new job at a school improvement consulting firm Elia’s portfolio will be national in focus, according to a press release, and will include community schools that have in-house wraparound services, teacher evaluation systems, standards, school choice, and urban education.
NYSATE/NYACTE. 2019 Annual Conference: Registration Open & Draft Conference Program Available [Oct. 16-18, Saratoga Springs]. 3pm Thurs: A culturally relevant approach to professional development for preservice teachers of color, presented by K. Ledwell, S. Reid, Teachers College
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching.
1) May meeting minutes
2) September meeting agendas
NEW YORK CITY
NYDailyNews. What NYC’s preschool teachers deserve: Unionization would cement their salary parity gains The new agreement means that certified early childhood teachers in nonprofits will see salary increases ranging from 40%-43% over the next two years, providing starting pay parity with public school preschool teachers. These increases come in response to high turnover and severe teacher recruitment and retention problems among organizations that provide the bulk of New York City pre-kindergarten programs and all center-based early childhood education programs for children 0-3 years of age.
Teachers College.
1) “Equal” is What Matters. “Separate” is Negotiable: TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford calls for a “radical imagination” of education for America’s new majority “This redistribution of resources, with less concern on the ‘separate’ and a greater focus on the ‘equal,’ must be used to provide children with access to caring, demanding and well prepared teachers with high expectations, a curriculum that teaches the history of their group, and a supportive affirming environment that fosters self-knowledge, self-confidence and self-respect.”
2) Teach Our Children — About Climate Change: Americans think schools should, finds a survey by TC researchers “Climate change is a defining issue of our time,” assert Teachers College’s Oren Pizmony-Levy, Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education, and Aaron Pallas, Arthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology & Education…
Walton Family Foundation. Walton Family Foundation Announces Major Investments to Support, Retain and Increase the Diversity of Educators Nationwide Bank Street Graduate School of Education: To train teacher candidates in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Residency Program in New York to address the intellectual, linguistic and emotional strengths and needs of students learning English.
