GLOBAL
NPR Goats and Soda. Village Teacher Wins $1 Million Prize For World’s Most ‘Exceptional’ Educator Disale hadn’t always planned to be a teacher. He was studying to be an engineer but dropped out because of bullying by his peers. He enrolled in a teacher training course on his father’s suggestion and was posted to Paritewadi in 2009 for his first assignment. “Day 1 was shocking,” says Disale. His classroom was overrun by cows and buffaloes. A farmer had turned it into a cattle shed and refused to leave.
New York Post. French government seeks to set age for sexual consent at 15. Activists say improving laws is part of the battle, but they also are pushing for more child-centered public policies to train teachers and others to spot and report abuse.
Shropshire Star. Government pledges £65m fund for new teacher training hubs across England A multimillion-pound Government fund will be used to ensure every school in England has access to a “local centre of excellence for teacher training”.
UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE Response to 2021 NCTQ Report In anticipation of the National Center on Teacher Quality’s (NCTQ) release of yet another round of flawed ratings for educator preparation programs, AACTE re-asserts its long-standing belief that the NCTQ model of program evaluation lacks the multiple-accountability, science-based measures necessary to assess teacher preparation program quality legitimately and accurately.
2) Friday, February 19, is the last the day to register for the virtual AACTE 2021 Annual Meeting, February 24-26.
CITED (Centre for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development)
1) 2021-2024 Faculty Fellows
2) CITED Conversations 2021 [via Zoom]
3) Inaugural CITED Teacher Fellows
Chalkbeat. We need books that center Black joy : It’s important that Black children feel seen, valued, and loved in their reading lives. As Director of Diversity and Equity at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, my work in advancing antiracism in education begins by centering and honoring the lived experiences of students of color.
Daily Herald. GOP lawmakers: Culturally responsive standards for teachers would put politics in classrooms Suburban lawmakers are split in opinion over a rule change proposed by the Illinois State Board of Education called “culturally responsive teaching and leading standards.” The standards would “apply to both candidates for licensure and to the programs that prepare them” beginning in October 2021 for new teacher training programs and in October 2025 for existing programs.
EdWeek.
1) Cybersecurity Training for Educators Lagging Behind Rising Risk of Cyberattacks But 44 percent of K-12 and college educators say they haven’t received basic cybersecurity training, and another 8 percent were unsure if they had been trained at all.
2) Learning Means Changing Your Mind Most adults and educators understand that the process of learning matters more enduringly than the product it produces. Psychologists Carol Dweck and Angela Duckworth have popularized this idea; it’s become so deeply ingrained in teacher-training programs that lessons on growth mindsets and grit appear in elementary school curricula.
InsideHigherEd.
1) Cardona Takes Step Toward Confirmation Miguel Cardona, President Biden’s nominee for education secretary, took a major step Thursday toward his likely confirmation by the Senate. Six Republicans joined 11 Democrats in supporting Cardona, as the Senate education committee voted to back the nomination, 17 to 5.
2) Former Miami Head Start Teacher to Lead House Higher Education Panel Representative Frederica Wilson… said in a statement she’d work to increase access to higher education. “I will seek to help make attaining a quality degree more accessible for all, which includes robust investment in historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions,” said Wilson, who earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Fisk University and a master of science in elementary education from the University of Miami.
KQED. Strategies for Retaining Teachers of Color and Making Schools More Equitable Bristol says there are different levers to engage in order to retain Black and Latinx educators. One of those levers is teacher preparation programs. Teachers of color in predominantly white teacher certification programs often struggle with feeling like their identity is not reflected in their coursework with curriculums that overlook their experiences and privilege the preparation of white middle-class educators… Another element of teacher prep programs relates to how they perceive students of color. Students are better supported when teacher prep programs prepare all teachers to engage with Black and Latinx learners…
Lawton Constitution. Oklahoma bill to increase teacher preparation passes committee Included in the legislation is data-driven, evidence-based strategies that include training on literacy — including phonics; an evidence-based approach to mathematics instruction; the application of behavioral sciences to classroom management; and the identification and impact of trauma on student learning and trauma-informed responsive instruction.
Learning Policy Institute. Eroding Opportunity: COVID-19’s Toll on Student Access to Well-Prepared and Diverse Teachers Data on teacher preparation program enrollment is not yet available, but early signs are worrisome. Undergraduate enrollment is down by nearly 4% (a concerning statistic, given that 80% of educators begin teaching with a bachelor’s degree). Enrollment declines are steepest among Native American and Black students.
The 19th News. Republican state lawmakers want to punish schools that teach the 1619 Project …proposed legislation that would penalize schools for teaching curriculums based on the 1619 Project signals a new era of policy debate over civics education that may increasingly play out in state legislatures.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Betty Rosa, former NY State education chancellor, appointed to commissioner job Rosa said. “Economic recovery through smart investments in schools, in teachers, in curricula and the ways we deliver instruction — that is how we will tackle so many of the challenges we face”… Before receiving a prominent role in Albany, Rosa spent years in the Bronx as a bilingual teacher, principal and superintendent.
NYSED Board of Regents, Feb. 8th Meeting
1) Board of Regents Unanimously Appoints Dr. Betty A. Rosa as Permanent Commissioner of Education: Commissioner Rosa is First Latina Woman to Serve as Commissioner Dr. Rosa is a nationally recognized education leader and received an Ed. M. and Ed. D. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University. She also holds two other Master of Science in Education degrees, one in Administration and Supervision and the other in Bilingual Education from the City College of New York and Lehman College respectively and a B.A. in psychology from the City College of New York… Dr. Rosa began her career in the NYC Department of Education as a bilingual paraprofessional, teacher and reading coordinator…
2)Proposed Amendments to Sections 52.21, 80-3.14, and 80-3.7 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education and Section 30-1.2 of the Rules of the Board of Regents Relating to Providing Flexibility Relating to Student Teaching, Individual Evaluation Pa…
3) Proposed Amendment to Section 50.1(l) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Definition of “University”
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) NYC’s middle school students to head back to buildings this month
2) What I saw when I spent a month watching middle school on Zoom It seems that the teachers had been given very little training in how to transfer instruction to a virtual setting, particularly for kids with learning disabilities. As a result, students in my niece’s middle school were essentially expected to teach themselves the material.
Teaching Residents @ Teachers College. TR@TC Induction and Beyond | Monthly Newsletter | February 2021
