GLOBAL
Equitable Education Conference 2020. The International Conference on Equitable Education: All for Education [10-11 July 2020]
Forum for Africa Women Educationists (FAWE). Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference on Girls’ Education in Africa[deadline 24 July]
GhanaWeb. Flashback: We never took anybody’s allowance, we even fed trainee teachers for free – Opoku-Agyemang Former Education Minister Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has denied withdrawing the allowances of trainee teachers and nurses during her tenure… She said apart from “replacing” the allowance with the student loan access so as to increase enrolment into the colleges of education, the government ensured that the trainee teachers were fed for free.
RNZ. Principals want foreign teachers exempted from border restrictions Foreign-trained teachers have been a key part of official efforts to relieve the shortage and last year nearly 1000 overseas teachers gained visas to work in New Zealand… We’ve compiled much better data now about a number of qualified and registered teachers we have in New Zealand, the number we think we’re going to need in future years and the numbers coming out of training.”
Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Dene pilot project aims to spark language among young speakers … the school hires eight graduates from the Dene Teacher Education Program… In 2016, Statistics Canada reported 13,005 people spoke Dene, about 70 per cent of whom lived in Saskatchewan.
UNITED STATES
EdSurge. SEL Skills Are More Vital Than Ever. Here’s How to Choose the Right Tools. Most of today’s teachers are in a similar situation; SEL was not an explicit part of their school experience. The research backs this up: explicit teacher education is often crucial to the success of new SEL programs.
Forbes. Here’s What The Next School Year Will Look Like At U.S. Colleges Fall policy. Columbia University has not announced a university-wide learning plan, but individual colleges have recently begun publicizing their approaches. The school’s teacher-training institution, Teachers College, for instance, will operate primarily online.
InsideHigherEd. Central Carolina Community College is starting an associate of science and an associate of arts in teacher education.
New America. Mississippi’s Multifaceted Approach to Tackling Teacher Shortages. Mississippi stands out for taking a creative approach to addressing critical shortages by piloting three initiatives: Grow Your Own programs to develop local teachers, a state-run teacher residency program, and a pilot program exploring the possibility for teachers to earn a license based on their performance.
NYTimes. Over 100 Lesson Plans Based on New York Times Articles
The Atlantic. Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought: Americans found out the hard way that education is essential infrastructure. …inviting idle recent college graduates to sign on as teaching assistants—might sound easy on paper; in reality, the regulations meant to ensure that adults in classrooms are appropriately trained and vetted to work with children are also impediments to making rapid personnel moves in a crisis.
University of Connecticut. Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in Teacher Education Monday, July 13, 4-5 pm EST, a virtual panel discussion on anti-racist teacher education scholarship and practice [incl. TC Prof. M. Souto-Manning]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). COVID-19 and Fall 2020 Students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States. The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States. Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status or potentially face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.
Washington Post.
1) International students must take classes in person to stay in the country legally this fall, ICE announces “Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status,” the announcement said. “If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings. ”
2) Just how little U.S. students learn about African American history — and five steps to start to change that [by L. T. Fenwick and C. Akua] 5. Work to revise teacher preparation programs to include coursework in African and African American history.
3) Why calls to ‘reinvent schooling’ in response to the pandemic are wrong [by D. Willingham & B. Riley] … data suggests educators are unfamiliar with most principles of cognitive science. Recently, we tested more than 1,000 teachers-in-training and found that fewer than half could identify these principles, and when they knew them, they often couldn’t say how they applied in classrooms.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Board of Regents. July 13 Meeting Agenda. Please note: In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the July Meeting will be held by video conference, which will be live-streamed.
NEW YORK CITY
ArtNet News. New York City’s 2021 Budget Slashes Already Modest Funding for Public-School Arts Education by 70 Percent Just six years ago, the city comptroller issued a comprehensive report about the shortcomings of art education in New York City schools. New York State Education Law requires students in grades seven through 12 to receive core arts instruction from certified teachers, but the report found that many schools do not meet this requirement—especially in lower income neighborhoods.
Chalkbeat. NYC may overhaul how one-third of its high schools are supervised, upsetting some principals The schools are supported by deep relationships with nonprofit or university partners, such as New Visions, Outward Bound, Urban Assembly and CUNY, giving the schools the ability to collaborate on curriculum, teacher training, and share best practices.
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer. Strong Schools for All: A Plan Forward for New York City Work with existing teacher training programs to expand in-classroom experience for teacher candidates. Many current graduate programs already place student teachers in classrooms to gain practical experience. These programs could be adjusted to extend the length of time student teachers are working in classrooms. Teaching residency programs – where aspiring teachers are placed in classrooms for a full year prior to being certified – should be immediately expanded.
NYTimes. New York City’s Biggest Decision: How to Safely Reopen Schools: The plan now emerging could have an enormous impact because the local economy may not fully recover until working parents can send children to school. … any Department of Education employee with a teaching certificate, even members of the central office staff, should prepare to teach in-person or remotely come September.
Patch. Here’s How Reopened NYC Schools Could Look: Safely reopening New York City schools means requiring students and teachers to wear masks, smaller classes and staggered schedules. Hiring more teachers and school staff to maintain quality of education. This could be accomplished by creating a hiring pipeline with CUNY, working with educational non-profits and reassigning DOE employees in central offices to schools.
