GLOBAL
India.com. Teachers Who Did Not Pass TET Not Entitled To Continue in Service, Rules Madras High Court The Madras High Court on Thursday said that teachers who did not pass the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) cannot continue in service.
The Guardian. Education union criticises ‘badly flawed’ evidence behind academy drive: National Education Union found ‘no compelling reason’ for all schools in England to join academy trusts The Department for Education (DfE) roundly rejected the NEU’s criticisms. “We want all schools to be part of a strong academy trust so they can benefit from the trust’s support in everything from teacher training, curriculum, financial planning and inclusivity towards children with additional needs, to excellent behaviour and attendance cultures.”
University of Toronto. ‘Preparing students to tackle world crises’: Here are the 2022 OISE Teaching Excellence Award winners Award for Excellence in Initial Teacher Education Winner: Andrew B. Campbell, Sessional Lecturer, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
UNITED STATES
AERA Division K. Fireside Chat. Mentoring Within and Across Differences: Mentors Supporting Mentees and Future Graduate Student Mentors “Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz Is an Award-Winning Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her Research Focuses on Racial Literacy in Teacher Education…” [San Diego, April 23, 2:30pm]
Chalkbeat.
1) Colorado needs preschool teachers. Will these incentives work? …hundreds of students across Colorado taking advantage of a new state program that pays for two introductory early childhood courses — a stepping stone to teaching in the field. The initiative, funded with $4 million in federal COVID aid, is part of a state effort to mint more early childhood teachers before the state’s universal preschool launch in 2023, and help the industry recover from staff shortages exacerbated by the pandemic.
2) How a Grammy-nominated Chicago teacher is using music to help students heal I was supposed to major in physics, but one month before I went off to college, I realized that I had spent my later years of high school entering people’s lives with my own piano improvisations. The music — created out of my pain and trauma — built connection and allowed healing to happen. I thought: Wouldn’t it be neat to become a teacher and teach students to heal those around them by also connecting with sound?… Here I am, 13 years in, teaching music and choir in Chicago.
EdSurge. Our Nation’s Teachers Are Hustling to Survive: Nearly 1 in 5 American public school teachers work a second job outside of the classroom. Americans like to think that the surest path to success runs through university campuses. That upward mobility begins in higher education and breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty requires an entrance fee of a college degree. Many people, including aspiring teachers, internalize this and make steep sacrifices to attend college. Sometimes, that looks like a 19-year-old taking out hefty student loans and choosing a career path with a poor return-on-investment.
InsideHigherEd. Tenure Awarded at University of San Francisco: Cheryl Jones-Walker, teacher education
Learning Policy Institute. Testimony to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee by Linda Darling-Hammond on Social and Emotional Learning and Whole Child Approaches in K–12 Education Embedding SEL in comprehensive approaches to teacher preparation is important because it enables them to understand students well, develop productive relationships and curriculum in their classrooms, and feel competent and confident so they communicate a sense of efficacy to their students. In addition, teachers and principals who are better prepared feel more efficacious, experience less stress in their jobs, and are more likely to stay in the profession, providing students with the stability they need.
NEA News. Missing: Future Teachers in Colleges of Education In a sign that the teacher shortage may worsen, a new study shows the declining numbers of college students in fields of education. A lot of it, frankly, has to do with money. “The fact is teachers aren’t paid adequately—and everybody knows it and everybody talks about it,” says Cameo Kendrick, chair of the NEA Aspiring Educators.
San Francisco Chronicle. California math wars get ugly: Accusations of racism and harassment ignite battle between Stanford and Cal profs The very public feud has its roots in what has become a bitter battle over how to teach math to K-12 students in California, and specifically whether to offer Algebra 1 in middle schools… That debate boiled over Tuesday after a math teacher at San Francisco’s Lowell High School who opposes Boaler’s approach posted on Twitter a contract that seemed to show the professor made $5,000 an hour to train teachers in the Oxnard school district.
Washington Post.
1) Biden extends federal student loan payment pause through Aug. 31 The moratorium was continued for a sixth time in the past two years
2) What the student loan payment pause has meant to Black women Student loans have shaped much of Elliott-O’Connor’s adult life. They gave her a chance at an education that her family could not afford. They kept her working as an educator with the promise of public service debt forgiveness when she was ready to strike out on her own.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED
1) Board of Regents April meeting agenda [Monday 4/11 Tuesday, 4/12]
Higher Education
*Proposed Amendments
Proposed… Relating to Establishing Registration Requirements for Residency Programs and Revising Residency Certificate Requirements
Supplementary Presentation: Proposed Residency Program Registration Requirements and Residency Certificate Changes
*Consent Agenda
Proposed Amendment…Relating to the General Education Core in the Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirement for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Teacher Certification
Proposed Amendment Relating to the Requirements for the Reissuance of an Initial Certificate
Proposed Amendment… Relating to the Teacher Performance Assessment Requirement for Certification and Establishing a Teacher Performance Assessment Requirement for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs
2) News and Notes. …the Board of Regents unanimously re-elected Dr. Lester W. Young, Jr. and Josephine Victoria Finn to the posts of Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, respectively… Regents Susan W. Mittler and Ruth B. Turner were re-elected to the Board of Regents. We also welcomed Regent Shino Tanikawa of Manhattan, who was elected to the Board of Regents by the New York State Legislature.
3) NYSED, NYSUT Applaud 51 Teachers Who Achieved ‘Gold Standard’ National Board Certification. Four of the 51 hold MA degrees from Teachers College: Molly Goodell Secondary Inclusive Education 2014, Yesenia Moreno Bilingual/Bicultural Education 2013, Vincent Pham TESOL (&TR@TC) 2017; Jessica VanScoy Education Policy 2018. TC Doctoral Student Jose Vilson, NBPTS Board of Directors, provided closing remarks.
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB). Meeting Minutes Thursday, February 17, 2022
NEW YORK CITY
Columbia News. The Evolution of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education at Teachers College According to national and state metrics, there exists a severe shortage of teachers of D/HH students, and our program’s graduates are in high demand. Our student teachers and graduates partner with culturally and linguistically diverse families to help them achieve their goals for their D/HH children, including learning to speak and/or sign the language(s) of the home.
Dance Magazine. Jody Gottfried Arnhold Has Devoted Her Career–And Philanthropy–to Bringing Dance to Everyone “I came to New York after college to dance, and I needed a job, which led me to being a classroom teacher… I have a goal: dance for every child. And that means dance education in every public school. I started by creating the Dance Education Laboratory and that led to working with the Department of Education to educate teachers, and then there weren’t enough teachers, so Hunter College started the Masters of Dance Education. And then we needed the leadership, so the Teachers College doctoral program. I don’t know what will be next.”
Gothamist. Lawmakers postpone decision on mayoral control of NYC schools Legislators said they have decided to separate mayoral control of the city’s public school’s from the budgetary process, and will take up the issue before the legislative session ends in June. That leaves some uncertainty around a policy that has been in place for two decades.
K-12 Dive. NYC Board of Ed to pay teachers hundreds of millions in damages for biased licensing exam The state-mandated exam, the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test, was required for all public school teachers in the city from 1993 to 2014… Teachers who failed were still allowed in the classroom, but the BOE paid them reduced salaries and denied them benefits, plaintiffs said. Now, the agreement filed on March 14 requires the BOE to stop appealing judgments awarding approximately $660 million in damages to former Black and Latino teachers…
NYDailyNews. Teacher diversity, compensation top list of education priorities for NYC adults: survey The most popular policy proposal among adults for improving city schools was to “increase hiring and salaries of diverse teachers and staff.” Similarly, when asked what could be done to address school segregation and “ensure one’s background does not determine their learning outcomes,” people chose “teacher diversity” second most-frequently — right after equitably distributing resources.
Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC). Induction and Beyond, April 2022: Educator Resources *Special Announcements *Grant Opportunities *Induction Highlights *Raising Consciousness *Curriculum Planning Tools *More…
