GLOBAL
European School Education Platform. Call for abstracts. The present call offers teachers and student teachers an opportunity to submit and have their works on action research published [Deadline May 31]
The Conversation [AUS]. Kids don’t vote but teachers and parents sure do – what are the parties offering on schools? The Coalition is focusing its efforts on “raising school standards” and “improving the quality of teacher training”. This includes creating a one-year diploma for initial teacher education… It would also need schools to shoulder a greater responsibility for “on-the-job” training.
UK.GOV. Teacher bonuses and funding for schools to level up education The premium follows the mathematics and physics teacher retention payments scheme piloted in the academic years 2019/2020 and 2020/21. It will be offered alongside the legacy early career payments that the government is continuing to pay to eligible teachers who started initial teacher training up until academic year 2020/21.
UNITED STATES
AP. Whitmer will propose retention bonuses for teachers, staff The governor also will request $600 million for educator recruitment — funding college scholarships for would-be educators, stipends for student teachers, training, and expanded programs to attract and keep teachers in their own communities.
Chalkbeat.
1) Michigan to spend $100 million to open new child care programs, tackle pain points The initiative will be divided into four parts: … * $11.4 million to recruit, train and retain early educators, including a $4 million apprenticeship program for early educators; and * $14.3 million to speed up a licensing process that many providers say is onerous…
2) Michigan’s teacher shortage: What’s causing it, how serious is it, and what can be done? In 2018, elementary teachers appeared on the U.S. Department of Education’s critical shortage area list for Michigan. That’s startling in a state that once produced so many teachers that the State Board of Education in 2005 stopped authorizing new college and university teacher preparation programs.
Education Week.
1) An Unconventional Approach to Teacher Training [interview with R. Hess] I connected with ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College school dean Carole Basile to learn more about what they’re doing to rethink teaching and teacher preparation.
2) Are Aspiring Elementary Teachers Learning Enough Math? Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework… Undergraduate programs that prepare aspiring elementary teachers now require an average of 19 percent more time for elementary math coursework than they did in 2014.
3) ‘Brown v. Board’ Decimated the Black Educator Pipeline. A Scholar Explains How After the decision, tens of thousands of Black teachers and principals lost their jobs as white superintendents began to integrate schools but balked at putting Black educators in positions of authority over white teachers or students. Scholars say that the current lack of Black educators in the profession can be traced to the aftermath of the Brown decision… These are people who played by the rules—they were committed. They went North, they got their graduate education, they came back [and were] still underpaid.
4) Make Teacher Prep Practical, Not Theoretical (This is the final post in a three-part series.) Teacher-credentialing programs should provide candidates with a window into what equity vs. equality looks like in practice throughout their program of study, spending time looking at student profiles and portfolios and discussing instructional implications. This way, they will be better prepared for meeting the needs of diverse learners in both the field experience and student-teaching…
Hechinger Report. Here’s a solution for attracting more Black, Latino and Indigenous talent to STEM — Start early First, teacher preparation and training programs should have a systematic focus on elementary school mathematical content instead of counting college-level math courses as content training.
National Center for Teacher Residencies. NCTR’s latest data collection and analysis indicates that the teacher residency movement is continuing to grow in scale and influence with NCTR’s Network residency programs graduating over 2,000 residents during the 2021-2022 academic year. In spite of national trends that point to declines in enrollment in teacher preparation programs, there was an increase in the number, mean, and median enrollment of residents in NCTR Network residency programs for the 2021-2022 academic year.
New Jersey Herald. Why this Montclair teacher has kept an empty chair in his classroom for 52 years …he graduated from Columbia Teachers College in 1974 and took a job teaching social studies in a mostly-Black Montclair middle school. It was important to him that he worked and raised a family in a place that was diverse. It was with him when he helped desegregate Montclair’s schools in the early 1970s, by transforming Glenfield Middle School into a magnet school for the arts that became a model for schools mandated to integrate by the landmark case Brown vs. Board of Education.
New Jersey Legislature. Assembly Bill A677 Unanimously passed the Assembly Education Committee. Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring completion of performance-based assessment as condition of eligibility for certificate of eligibility with advanced standing.
Obama.org. The Voyager Scholarship: The Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service This scholarship gives college students financial aid to alleviate the burden of college debt, meaningful travel experiences to expand their horizons, and a network of mentors and leaders to support them… Public service can include careers in government, non-profit, or the private sector, ranging from school teachers, community organizers, social workers…
San Francisco Standard. Hayward Superintendent Picked to Lead SF Public Schools Wayne, who is fluent in Spanish, started his educational career as an English teacher in 1997 in New York…. He holds an undergraduate degree in rhetoric and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from UC Berkeley. He holds two masters degrees—an masters of arts in English education and a masters of education in public school administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.
The Harvard Crimson. Harvard Ends Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, Closing Off a Path to Teaching for College Students The Harvard Undergraduate Teacher Education Program, which provided College students with teaching credentials prior to graduation, was recently ended as part of an effort to direct students interested in teaching to the Graduate School of Education’s new Teaching and Teacher Leadership master’s program. UTEP is the second undergraduate education program to be ended in recent years after the Harvard Teacher Fellows was rolled over into TTL last October.
Washington Post.
1) Some Md. parents argue a new health curriculum is unfit for young students Parents in some Maryland districts are pushing back against their school boards’ efforts to adopt a state health framework that instructs educators how to teach about gender identity. The framework broadly outlines how to teach health topics by each grade level; its family life and sexuality guidelines have been the most controversial.
2) States are mandating Asian American history lessons to stop bigotry At the helm of this movement is longtime activist and lawyer Stewart Kwoh, leading the charge with his wife, Patricia, and their nonprofit Asian American Education Project. Alongside other teachers, they have created 53 lesson plans on subjects including racism and immigration, training more than 1,000 educators over the past year online.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED News. Board of Regents Recognizes Winners of Vice Chancellor Emerita Adelaide L. Sanford Scholarships Anderly and her family moved to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic when she was 10 years old. During the pandemic, she served as a peer tutor, helping other students struggling mentally and emotionally. Anderly plans to attend New York University as an English education major with a minor in Spanish and Psychology. Her goal is to become a teacher and to inspire students to create their own stories.
NYSED May Board of Regents Meeting
Proposed Amendments:
* Higher Education. Proposed Amendment… Relating to Extending Flexibilities for Incidental and Substitute Teaching
* Higher Education/K-12. Joint Proposed Amendment … Relating to Establishing the Students with Disabilities (All Grades) Certificate, Revising the Registration Requirements for Students with Disabilities (Birth-Grade 2) Programs, and Revising the Requirements for the Extension an…
Supplemental Presentation: Proposed Students with Disabilities (All Grades) Certificate
Consent Agenda (Passed unanimously):
* Proposed Amendment… Relating to the Assessment Requirements for School District Leader (SDL) and School District Business Leader (SDBL) Program Completion, the Institutional Recommendation for Professional SDL and SDBL Certification, and the Institutional…
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. I’m a high school history teacher. Here’s how I’m addressing the Buffalo massacre in class: As I prepared to discuss the racist violence, I couldn’t help but reflect on what conversations might be banned if I did not teach in New York City. [by S. B. Rosenberg TC MA ’02, Social Studies Ed.] The U.S. is currently confronting multiple crises: COVID, gun violence, climate change, white supremacy, and systemic racism. It is educational malpractice not to provide the students with time and space to discuss these topics, including Saturday’s shooting. Laws meant to block or dissuade teachers from these conversations are insidious. How can we stop racist conspiracies like the Great Replacement from taking hold if young people can’t even rely on schools to learn the truth?
New York Public Library. Culturally Responsive Fairy Tale Titles for the Classroom In teaching nursery rhymes and fairy tales, choosing a culturally responsive title builds upon the knowledge that students have from their own upbringing and expands their understanding of the world around them. Use these titles in your classroom to facilitate a discussion about nursery rhymes and fairy tales and how they have been adapted and reimagined within different countries and cultures.
Teachers College. Grad Pia Maiti Crisscrossed the World to Get to Where She Wanted to Be – TC … successful submission of an application to the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA), a professional development program that fosters cross-cultural understanding and learning by matching foreign educators with U.S. colleges and universities.
