Month: October 2022

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Teacher Education

Week of Oct. 24 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
EduGraph. SCERT: Delhi Government sets up a new block   According to officials, the Delhi government has built a brand-new building with cutting-edge amenities to train in-service teachers at the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT)…Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister, opened the teacher training centre and declared that the new facilities would raise the bar for teacher preparation in the city to “new heights.”

New York Times. Evidence ‘Invalidated’ in Explosive Report on Mexico’s 43 Missing Students: This summer, the government said it had uncovered what happened during the 2014 mass abduction. Arrest warrants quickly followed. But since then, the criminal case and the new acc…   The victims — students at a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, a poor community in southern Mexico — were at the core of his base of support. The deeply flawed investigation under Mr. Peña Nieto fed a broader wave of discontent with the political establishment in Mexico, which favored the outsider candidacy of Mr. López Obrador and helped sweep him into power in 2018.

Open Polytechnic [NZ]. New programmes being launched by the Open Polytechnic are using an innovative network approach to widen national access to initial teacher education.    Following approval from the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand and NZQA, Open Polytechnic, a subsidiary of Te Pūkenga, is offering a suite of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. The programmes have been created with the purpose of opening accessibility to teacher training for ākonga (learners) in the community where they are based; enabling ākonga to enrol and study by open distance and flexible learning from anywhere in Aotearoa. 

UNITED STATES
AACTE. AACTE Report Examines Education Censorship in Institutions of Higher Ed   “As White argues, teacher education programs are at particular risk, even in states where censorship laws ostensibly target only K-12 schools. These laws disrupt equitable practices in teacher training programs, restrict the academic freedom of faculty and students, and contribute to the worsening national teacher shortage.”

Chalkbeat. I want to be a teacher. What do I need to know for my first interviews?   Be prepared with reference letters, practice your answers to possible questions, and think about times you solved problems in the classroom.

InsideHigherEd
1) Academic Minute: Making the Teaching Profession More Attractive    The University of South Carolina’s Henry Tran, associate professor in education leadership, examines how to develop more. [2 1/2 minute audio]
2) How Higher Ed Can Help Remedy K-12 Learning Losses: Low national scores have spurred discussion of how K-12 schools can improve student performance. Experts think institutions of higher education can help.   Nikki Edgecombe, senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center, part of Columbia University’s Teachers College, said that virtually every college across the country, from prestigious research institutions to rural community colleges, can do something right now to support its local school system. That might mean providing teachers with professional development, creating curricula or even providing resources to help schools meet their students’ needs for such essentials as food, mental health care and technology.
3) Permanent Fixes for a ‘Broken System’: More than $14 billion in federal student loans have been forgiven under the program in the last year since the administration streamlined the process. The changes will now become permanent.    “The Biden-Harris team is as committed as ever to upholding the promise of PSLF and ensuring borrowers who devote their careers to teaching our children, strengthening our communities and serving our nation get the relief they’ve earned.”

Education Week.
1) Immigrant Teacher’s Memoir Sheds Light on What English Learners Need   The way we are teaching now is using core content in order to teach the second language process. And so that’s definitely something that is growing out there, there’s still so much work to be done. But when you walk into ESL classrooms, or classrooms that are teaching English as a second language, you will see rich and robust ways that students are acquiring the language.
2) States Are Desperate for Special Ed. Teachers. But They Can’t Cut Corners to Get Them   In the face of teacher shortages, many states have lowered licensing standards to get teachers in classrooms as quickly as possible. But here’s a Catch-22: they can’t do that with special education teachers. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the federal law on educating students with disabilities, requires that special education teachers be “appropriately and adequately prepared and trained” and “have the content knowledge and skills to serve children with disabilities.” 
3) With Their Licenses in Jeopardy, Florida Teachers Unsure How the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Will Be Applied   Part of the concern stems around how severe losing a license can be for teachers. It’s not just losing a job; it can be career-ending.

FutureEd. In Demand: The Real Teacher Shortages and How to Solve Them   Because the teacher-production pipeline has always been leaky, with sharp drop-offs between matriculation and graduation, completion and licensure, and licensure and hiring, the recent focus on applications to teacher-training programs doesn’t provide a true picture of teacher supply. What’s more, there is no clear information tying the decline in ed-school applications to need. The reductions may be in grade levels and subject areas where there is a surfeit of teachers.

Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC).   The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power with Dr. Jarvis Givens [Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:00.p.m. – 5:00.p.m. PST Via Zoom]

Los Angeles Times. After O.C. school district bans critical race theory, it faces Cal State Fullerton backlash   Months after an Orange County school district banned teaching critical race theory, Cal State Fullerton has told school officials it is pausing placement of its student teachers in the system’s K-12 classrooms, citing concerns that district policies conflict with university goals that promote equity and inclusion in education.

Michigan Business. Gov. Whitmer Launches Michigan’s First-Ever Fellowships For Future Educators, Stipends For Student Teachers   Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that applications for $10,000 scholarships for up to 2,500 future Michigan educators and $9,600 payments for student teachers will open on October 31. By lowering the cost of higher education, the state can hire and train more qualified teachers.

New York Times. Times Opinion wants to hear from you and from the teachers, law enforcement officers and parents who are directly affected by the threat of gun violence in schools. Is arming teachers the best way to protect students from school shootings?

Saginaw Valley State Univ. SVSU sees enrollment growth in teacher certification students and highest GPA for incoming freshmen   SVSU has 146 students pursuing teacher certification, up from 126 last year, including 23 new students who are employees of Saginaw Public Schools and enrolled through a new partnership between SVSU and the school district. All of these students have previously completed bachelor’s degrees and want to become certified teachers.

The 74. Thousands of Native Students Go to Albuquerque Schools. Most Will Never Have a Native Teacher: District officials started a state-funded pilot program this school year to hire more Native American teachers   State and district education officials cite a number of programs centered around pipeline development, but none of them target Native people in particular, and most don’t target high schoolers. There’s the district’s teacher residency program, which pairs people pursuing a degree in education with an experienced co-teacher at a high-need school for 15 months. Residents agree to teach within the district for an additional three years after completing the state-funded program, which the district runs in partnership with UNM and the Albuquerque Teachers Federation. 

Washington Post.
1) Adele tells fans her next move: She wants to get a college degree   She told fans in Los Angeles this week that McDonald had made her “fall in love with books,” adding, “if I hadn’t made it in my singing, I think I would definitely be a teacher.”
2) More public servants could get a chance at student debt relief: With the Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver set to end, the Education Department said it is working to continue to help borrowers   A year-long waiver of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program gave teachers, social workers and other public servants credit for payments that previously did not qualify for relief. The reprieve — which ends Monday — resulted in more than 236,000 people receiving $14 billion in debt cancellation, according to the department.
3) Student loan relief to move ahead despite hold, education secretary says   The Biden administration is moving “full speed ahead” in preparing for the implementation of its plans for widespread student debt forgiveness, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Saturday, a day after a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the loans from being immediately canceled.

NEW YORK STATE
NYS Dept of Labor. Governor Hochul Announces $30 Million Empire State Teacher Residency Program to Increase Teacher Support and Retention   This program will provide matching funding for local public school districts and/or Boards of Cooperative Educational Services to create two-year residency opportunities for graduate-level K-12 teacher candidates. The program will provide $30 million in funding to subsidize master’s degree or teaching certification programs for qualified residency program candidates.

2022 NYSATE/NYACTE Annual Fall Conference Program. Seeking Solidarity: Preparing Educators in and for Challenging Times [Gideon Putnam Resort, Saratoga Springs, NY October 27-28, 2022]

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. NAEP scores show record drop in math for New York City’s fourth graders, but not in reading   At one Bronx middle school whose students were part of the NAEP testing pool…Educators licensed in other subjects, such as math, had to fill in, meaning they didn’t always have enough time to plan lessons for their other courses…

The New Yorker. Welcome to the Banks Administration: New York’s schools chancellor has big goals — and some powerful family connections.   Next month, during the annual Somos el Futuro political conference held in San Juan, Banks says he plans to meet with local officials to help recruit Puerto Rican bilingual teachers to come work in New York.

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Week of Oct. 17 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
GOV.UK £180 million to improve children’s development in the early years   Today’s package of support, which will benefit pre-school children all over England, includes:.. Graduate-level specialist training leading to early years teacher status – evidence is very clear that higher qualifications are consistently identified as a predictor of higher quality and associated with better child outcomes;..

The West Australian. South Hedland student-teacher selected for international symposium on Indigenous-led teaching training    A Hedland-based Curtin University student teacher has been selected to attend an international symposium on Indigenous-led teaching training in Canada.

UNESCO. Launch of Leveraging Education Analysis for Results Network (LEARN)   A number of areas will be highlighted where common action can benefit Member States, including for instance on learning assessment, textbook development or initial teacher education programmes.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 75th Annual Meeting Innovation Through Inspiration. February 24 – 26 in Indianapolis, IN. [Register by the December 31 to take advantage of the early bird rate]
2) HPU’s Stout School of Education Receives Nearly $10 Million Teacher Quality Partnership Grant: The U.S. Department of Education Grant Will Fund Master of Arts in Teaching and Master of Education for Principals Programs.   High Point University’s Stout School of Education is a recipient of a nearly $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund two graduate programs for teachers and principals for the next five years. The school will receive $9,786,041, the second largest federal Teacher Quality Partnership grant awarded to 22 universities in the nation.

AAQEP. 2023 AAQEP Quality Assurance Symposium [February 22-23, Indianapolis]

Chalkbeat.
1) How student loan borrowers can take advantage of President Biden’s forgiveness plan   Student loan borrowers across the country will have until December 2023 to apply for up to $20,000 in forgiveness from the federal government. 
2) Most Colorado K-3 teachers finish science of reading training   The state took a two-pronged approach to fixing the problem — targeting both existing teachers and teachers-in-training. Besides mandating the K-3 teacher training as part of the reading law, the state pushed Colorado’s teacher preparation programs to purge debunked reading methods and ensure coursework included scientifically based approaches to reading instruction.
3) Tutoring and teacher retention top Whitmer’s education agenda as she seeks second term    Her mother and grandmother were teachers. Her grandfather was superintendent of the Pontiac School District. Both she and her children attended Michigan public schools… Supporters at a recent campaign rally in Trenton, downriver from Detroit, said they appreciate Whitmer’s focus on teacher recruitment and retention at a time of worsening staff shortages and declining interest in teacher preparation programs. 
4) Tutoring grants of up to $1,000 for Indiana students to roll out Oct. 15   Some school districts are also providing tutoring services using their own teaching staff, like Knox schools, which will offer in-person tutoring with certified teachers to its 25 eligible students.

Daily Business Review. Controversial rules for schools get official go-ahead from Florida Board of Education   During an at-times heated meeting, the state board also signed off on a separate rule that could lead to teachers losing their licenses for violating two controversial new

EdPrepLab. Virtual Fall Forum 2022 [Wed, October 26, 11:30 AM – 2:45 PM ET]

EdWeek.
1) 3 Big Challenges to Expanding Computer Science Classes and How to Overcome Them   The Chicago school district, which made computer science a graduation requirement several years ago, has worked with research institutions to develop a sequence of courses to help teachers feel comfortable leading introductory classes. Issues remain, however, because the training doesn’t prepare educators to teach more advanced computer science classes…
2) 3 Big Mistakes to Avoid When Helping Readers Grapple With Challenging Texts   …highlighted tactics to avoid and offered better alternatives for teachers to support students as they tackle difficult texts.
3) 5 Strategies States Are Using to Fill Teacher Shortages   1. Dropping requirements for bachelor’s degrees 2. Easing certification requirements 3. Bringing retired teachers back 4. Relying on emergency certification 5. Hiring professionals from other fields
4) School Districts Look Overseas to Fill Teacher Shortages   With the exception of 2020, which saw a considerable dip due to the pandemic, the number of international teachers employed by U.S. districts jumped by 69 percent—from 2,517 in 2015 to 4,271 in 2021… only teachers with a minimum of two years teaching or similar professional experience can apply for a J-1visa
5) Virtual Career Fair for Teachers and K-12 Staff: Easily Find Your Next Education Job [October 27 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT]
6) Why the Gates Foundation Is Investing $1.1 Billion in Math Education   The goals: More and better trained math teachers, a new trove of engaging and effective teaching materials, and a clearer sense of how to teach a subject that many students now find dry and intimidating.

Hechinger Report.
1) English language teachers are scarce. One Alabama town is trying to change that   The Russellville school district is using federal pandemic funds to train and certify new English language teachers for its growing student population of Spanish speakers, and encouraging the state to invest too
2) Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South: Patchwork approach could leave children with unprepared educators  Officials must determine if it’s better to hire these adults, even if they aren’t fully prepared, or let children end up in crowded classes or with substitutes… By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects.

New York Times. Teenagers and Misinformation: Some Starting Points for Teaching Media Literacy   Five ideas to help students understand the problem, learn basic skills, share their experiences and have a say in how media literacy is taught.

Washington Post.
1) An explosion of culture-war laws is changing schools. Here’s how.   Pondiscio said he believes these measures are a necessary corrective to the recent sway that progressives have achieved in education, partly by training teachers to act as agents of social justice who encourage children to make the world a more equal place.
2) Beta launch of student loan forgiveness application website opens for borrowers   The application is set to open to all borrowers later this month.
3) How to diversify America’s teaching corps   Patching the leaks would enable greater numbers of aspiring teachers to complete their preparation programs, become fully certified and licensed, and find schools in which they are culturally affirmed and sustained…
4) Judge dismisses GOP-led states’ lawsuit to block student-loan forgiveness plan   The ruling by Autrey, a George W. Bush appointee, was one of two victories Thursday for the administration’s plan. In a separate case, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied a request by the conservative legal outfit Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, working on behalf of a taxpayer’s association, to pause the program.
laws.

NEW YORK STATE
New York State Register (Oct. 19, 2022). Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway  Purpose: To extend for one year the timeline for programs to implement the new student teaching requirements, and to make amendments to such requirements and the student teaching requirements for the individual evaluation pathway to certification. Data, views or arguments may be submitted to: William P. Murphy, Deputy Commissioner, NYS Education Department, Office of Higher Education, 89 Washington Avenue, Room 975 EBA, Albany, NY 12234, (518) 473-3781, email: [email protected] Public comment will be received until: 60 days after publication of this notice.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. New York City grapples with influx of new asylum-seeking students   Facing a shortage of bilingual educators, the city recently announced hiring teachers from the Dominican Republic… Over the past decade, the city has failed to comply with a state-issued corrective action plan focused on students learning English as a new language. For example, the city has failed to provide legally required services to all bilingual students with disabilities, largely because there aren’t enough trained bilingual educators.  

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Teacher Education

Week of Oct. 10 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE). Webinar – The Secondment Of Teachers To Continuing Teacher Education: Transitions And Tensions [23 November 2022 – 15-00 CET]

News & Star (UK). Cumbria Teacher Training, Workington gets new Ofsted rating   A teacher training college has said ‘significant progress’ has been made to take the centre from ‘inadequate’ to ‘requires improvement’… “The substance of the ITE curriculum is not clearly defined. This means that leaders, tutors and mentors are not sure what trainees should be learning and when this should happen.”

Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Sask. teacher uses YouTube, TikTok to teach Métis language   “After I went back to school to get my teaching degree, I became interested in learning Michif. It is the language of my ancestors and through SUNTEP (Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program), I had the opportunity to start learning from Language Keepers,” he says.

The Week. Tamil Nadu: Did school education dept tweak Kalvi TV tender to favour suppliers of particular brand?   Kalvi TV, though run by the state government, falls under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, an overarching programme introduced by the central government, for the school education from pre-primary to class 12, to provide equal opportunities for schooling and equitable learning outcomes. It subsumes the three schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE) under one umbrella.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Indiana’s CREA State Team Examines Standard-Setting Process for Licensure Exams   In 2021, Indiana joined the Consortium for Research Based and Equitable Assessments (CREA), an initiative by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to examine state-level certification assessment scores and their impact on promoting a diverse educator workforce… In this report, attention is given to the racist legacy of licensure exams and the problems associated with the psychometric method used to construct, validate, and set cut scores for licensure exams. More specifically, the report analyzed the demographic composition of the “subject matter experts” that were used to construct licensure exams.

Bangor Daily News. Report finds Maine hasn’t enforced law requiring schools teach Wabanaki studies   In terms of training, the state has not implemented any requirements that teachers learn about Wabanaki history or culture to become certified. 

Chalkbeat. How one Colorado Republican shaped what students will learn about the Holocaust   Leshem said his focus now is ensuring teachers have the resources to teach the topic well… Colorado also lacks the museums, the teacher training programs, the funding, and the well-developed curriculum on the issue that other states have. 

EdWeek.
1) A New Teacher at 50: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild America’s Black Teaching Workforce   CREATE 65 was the brainchild of District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton. He wanted to attract more candidates of color who are often shut out of the current teacher pipeline, then provide them with a $30,000 stipend, enrollment at either Northwestern or National Louis University, and a full year of hands-on training at the elbow of an expert teacher. The model is known as a teacher residency. More than 130 such programs are now in operation across the country.
2) HBCUs to Scale Up Teacher Residency Programs   The grant is part of a $60 million investment from the U.S. Department of Education to address teacher shortages and support the educator workforce. Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs has declined significantly over the past decade, and experts have raised serious concerns about the strength of the teacher pipeline.
3) Improving the Preparation Pipeline for Black Teachers: 5 Ideas From Experts   Education Week asked five experts to suggest in 250 words or less how the nation’s teacher preparation pipeline can be overhauled to work better for candidates of color, especially those who are Black…
4) Schools Are Still Understaffed. Here’s How Hard-Pressed Principals Are Responding   Belcastro, in Illinois, worries that some of the proposals in other states to ease teacher shortages by loosening certification requirements could hurt the profession… send the message to those already teaching that the effort they put into obtaining their certifications was pointless.

InsideHigherEd. Pinning Hopes on Future Educators: Colleges of education hope that celebrating teaching candidates with pinning ceremonies will help validate their decision to enter an increasingly demanding field.   Some institutions have been conducting such ceremonies for years. The University of Central Arkansas, a midsize university in the Little Rock suburb of Conway, held its first pinning ceremony for educator candidates back in 2007.

Las Cruses Sun News. NMSU study finds decrease in New Mexico teacher vacancies   “We have increased our enrollment in licensure programs across the board, expanded our partnerships with rural school districts, and continued our commitment to offering culturally and linguistically responsive curriculum, instruction, and professional development opportunities for educators at all career stages. We continue to celebrate strong successes in our efforts to generate and sustain a robust, diverse teacher education pipeline for New Mexico,” Marlatt said.

Mercer University. College of Education receives $9.6 million federal grant to diversify teaching workforce   Mercer University’s Tift College of Education will partner with five local school districts on a three-year, $9.6 million U.S. Department of Education grant project aimed at strengthening the teacher pipeline in order to increase and diversify the teaching workforce. The grant project, titled “Georgia Educators Networking to Revolutionize and Transform Education (GENERATE),” will develop a residency program for career changers to obtain Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) degrees, become certified teachers in Georgia and teach in high-need content areas within partner school districts.

New York Times.
1) Teaching and Learning About Abortion Laws in the United States After Roe
2) Why You Can’t Find Child Care: 100,000 Workers Are Missing   …if they are applying for lead teacher roles, submit their college degrees to the state for approval. If a degree is from a foreign country — which is often the case, she said, as many of her employees are immigrants — it must first be translated into English…a targeted visa program could draw immigrants committed to the work… States like Arizona have used existing visa programs to draw schoolteachers with advanced degrees and years of classroom experience from overseas…

Washington Post.
1) Fla. to strip licenses of K-3 teachers who discuss gender identity, sexuality   The Florida Department of Education has done little to publicize its rule on teachers’ licenses. The rule appeared online around the same time that the state was taking damage from Hurricane Ian…
2) How to teach in a political firestorm   Teachers still have to do their jobs amid all the turmoil in public education, and this post is aimed at helping them do that. It was written by Roxanna Elden… Her guidebook, “See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers,” is a staple in school districts and educator training programs throughout the country.
3) Most Md. voters say elementary school discussion of LGBTQ acceptance ‘inappropriate’   Despite the pushback in some areas, resources and lesson plans are becoming much more common for those who want to teach about gender identity. At least six states require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics, and the federal government recommends that schools include gender identity in their sex-education programs.

NEW YORK STATE
University of Buffalo. UB Teacher Residency Program awarded $3.5 million to expand   The funding, from the U.S. Department of Education’s Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Program, was announced this week by Rep. Brian Higgins (NY-26).

NEW YORK CITY
New York Post. ‘It’s scary for me’: Struggle of migrant kids in NYC schools with few Spanish speakers   …struggling to cope after being placed at a New York City school where there’s a lack of bilingual teachers…instruction in Spanish is limited because there aren’t enough teachers certified in the language…Schools Chancellor David Banks admitted Thursday that the lack of bilingual teachers for migrant students across the city was a “real problem” that hadn’t yet been resolved.

New York Times. Hasidic School Is Breaking State Education Law, N.Y. Official Rules   Ms. Rosa warned that previous visits to the school conducted by city officials did not prove that the school was offering instruction in all required subjects. She said that observations she received from city officials in fact indicated that the yeshiva does not offer sufficient instruction in English, social studies or science. 

The University of the State of New York Education Department. In the Matter of Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem regarding substantial equivalence.
   …YMAH’s current teachers are incompetent to deliver such instruction. NYCDOE did not directly address these concerns, instead indicating that teachers are evaluated using the Danielson Framework, “licensed,” and provided with professional development.…the evidence in the record is insufficient to support a finding that YMAH’s teachers are competent; i.e., that they have the appropriate knowledge, skill, and disposition to deliver substantially equivalent instruction.

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Week of Oct. 3 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
Baltic News Network. In Estonia most schools will teach only in state language next year  Teachers whose language proficiency does not meet the requirements will no longer be eligible to teach starting from 2023/2024 school year… The minister also emphasized the importance of teacher compensation. Currently, the Ministry of Education and Research recommends that teachers with a master’s degree are paid 120% of the Estonian average wage. 

Education Week. U.S. Teachers Work More Hours Than Their Global Peers. Other Countries Are Catching Up   … across countries that participated in the survey, preschool, elementary, and secondary teachers earned 4 percent to 14 percent lower salaries than other college-educated workers. On average across grade spans, teachers in OECD countries earned about 90 percent of what similarly educated, adult full-time workers in their countries made, taking into account salaries and bonuses. In the United States, however, teachers on average made half of what similarly educated peers made in other fields.

Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). Investing in teachers is the first step in attaining global education goals   As we reflect on how to meet the 2030 Sustainable development goal 4 of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality … * Improve the quality of teacher training, from adopting minimum standards and qualifications of all teacher training institutions, providing regular in service and continuous teacher education and providing opportunities for career growth…

NSW Government News. Aspiring teachers to earn while they learn: A new program aims to recruit high-achieving graduates into teaching careers.   Under the NSW Teach for Australia pathway, participants complete their Master of Teaching degree at Australian Catholic University while they are employed in a school. They receive holistic coaching, mentoring and classroom observations to provide teaching students with a continuous cycle of feedback and improvement.   

UNESCO. World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe.  It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Deadline Extended to Submit: Annual Meeting Proposal by October 9
2) NCES Releases Alarming Data on School Staffing   As of August, when the latest NCES survey was administered to roughly 900 public campuses, close to 80% of schools with at least one job opening reported it was either very or somewhat difficult to hire fully certified special education and math teachers. 

Chalkbeat.
1) A Colorado experiment aims to expand the teacher pipeline and stem turnover   The Public Education & Business Coalition’s plans are part of a new initiative that relies on “pay for success” financing, a funding mechanism in which outside investors cover up-front costs and get paid back later with public money if certain goals are met… Over three years, coalition leaders seek to mint 335 new teachers, including a significant number of teachers of color. 
2) Hillsdale-linked charter group withdraws applications in Tennessee   …Hillsdale President Larry Arnn declared in June that teachers are “trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country.” The remarks, caught by a hidden camera and broadcast by Nashville WTVF reporter Phil Williams, sparked public outrage directed at both Arnn and Lee, who was on stage with Arnn and has refused to disavow his words.

Education Week.
1) Schools’ Staffing Challenges Persist in New Year   “Grow your own” programs, which focus on introducing high school students to the profession and supporting them in getting the proper education and certification, can serve as long-term solutions to future staffing shortages…
2) To Fill Teacher Jobs, Community Colleges Offer New Degrees   In Washington state, nine community colleges offer education degrees for teaching grade school and up. All of the programs started within the last decade… There has been pushback against community college degree programs in education in Washington and nationally, as universities with teacher education programs grapple with declines in enrollment.. 
3) Webinar–‘Science of Reading’: What Are the Components?   More than half of states are mandating a radical shift in reading instruction—requiring teachers to adopt a “science of reading” approach to early literacy. [Oct. 12, 2pm EDT]

Hechinger Report.
1) How can we improve early science education? New report offers clues   Better training for teachers could help pre- and in-service educators teach science better, report finds
2) To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators   In Washington and a handful of other states, would-be teachers can now earn their degrees from community colleges, part of an effort to help diversify the profession..

InsideHigherEd. Another Call for Extending Public Service Forgiveness Waiver   Extending the waiver would give federal employees, military personnel and other public service workers time to use the waiver. The Student Borrower Protection Center has estimated that 15 percent of the nine million eligible employees have filed paperwork to track their qualifying payments under PSLF… 

NEA News. NEA: Real Solutions, Not Band-Aids, Will Fix Educator Shortage  NEA is calling on the federal government to enact much broader student debt cancellation (up to $50,000), support educator applications for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) waiver, and encourage school districts to use their CARES Act funds (the COVID economic relief package signed into law in March 2020) to pay for or reimburse employees’ student loans.  

New York Times.
1) One Way to Ease the Teacher Shortage: Pay More, Some Districts Say   The mismatch in supply and demand, researchers say, points to long-neglected flaws in the teacher labor market: aspiring teachers frequently don’t know what jobs are going to be available to them when they complete their training, while states and school districts have neglected to use financial incentives to persuade candidates to take jobs and stay in them.
2) Sounding Out a Better Way to Teach Reading   Critics of the science of reading deride the approach as “drill and kill,” boring children with an exclusive focus on foundational skills, a concern that Ms. Pimentel and others reject. That’s where good teachers come in, said Claude Goldenberg, an emeritus education professor at Stanford. “We need to help train, mentor and monitor teachers to help them do it in a way that’s effective,” he said.

Tennessee Lookout. Building a better pipeline by preparing educators   We need to look at the Praxis exam — a test of knowledge and skills needed for classroom teaching — and see how it aligns with content, and possibly reconsider the use of EdTPA… Policymakers do not know how to measure and define a successful teacher training program. So, we should bring our institutions and educator prep programs together at the Tennessee General Assembly and give them a platform to address problems and find solutions.

The 74.
1) Facing Regional Shortages, U.S. Schools Now Employing 160,000 ‘Underqualified’ Teachers   Parents, experts and traditional teacher preparation programs caution against unchecked growth of emergency and temporary licensing to fill vacancies
2) For a Small Rural Texas Town, the Solution to a Teacher Shortage is a Motel.   But now she has to think about her future. It feels almost sacrilegious to say so, Ely said, because teachers are trained and conditioned to be all about the kids. They are praised when they are, in a way, martyrs to the profession, she said. 

Washington Post.
1) An American education: Amid a historic U.S. teacher shortage, a ‘Most Outstanding Teacher’ from the Philippines tries to help save a struggling school in rural Arizona   …U.S. schools have hired more than 1,000 Filipino teachers in the past few years. Most Filipino teachers have master’s degrees or doctorates. In the Philippines, teaching is considered a highly competitive profession, with an average of 14 applicants for each open position, and teachers are constantly evaluated and ranked against their peers.
2) Seeing through conspiracy theories and other news literacy lessons   NLP has an e-learning platform, Checkology, that helps educators teach middle and high school students how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and know what to trust, what to dismiss and what to debunk.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Where do Hochul and Zeldin stand on education?   She’s…attempted to address the teacher shortage by expanding alternative teacher certification programs… She also signed a popular bill that requires lower class sizes in New York City, which was celebrated by many families, the teachers union, and advocates. 

New York State Education Department Board of Regents. October meeting
Higher Education Proposed Amendments
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification (public comment period begins Oct. 19)
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Definition of “Prospective School Employee”
* Proposed Amendment …Relating to the Deferment of the Declaration of a Major by Matriculated Students for State Financial Aid Purposes
Higher Education Consent Agenda
* Proposed Amendment …Relating to the Standards for School Building Leader Preparation Programs, Definition of “Leadership Standards” for Annual Professional Performance Reviews, and Safety Net for the School Building Leader Assessment 
* Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Implementation Timeline for the Computer Science Statement of Continued Eligibility

New York State Education Department Office of Higher Education. Educator Preparation September Newsletter
* Board of Regents September Items: New Students with Disabilities (All Grades) Certificate; New Literacy (All Grades) Certificate
* Certification for College Professors.
* New Office of Teacher and Leader Development and Assistant Commissioner
* New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE) Test Development. Content Specialty Test (CST) Frameworks. The frameworks for the new Computer Science CST, revised Physical Education CST, and new School Counselor CST are now available on the NYSTCE website.

NEW YORK CITY

Chalkbeat. NYC principals with enrollment shortfalls brace for more budget cuts   “It would literally destroy the school’s programs, not to mention excess all the new teachers we brought in who have brought fresh energy, fresh blood and new life to the school,” said the principal, who runs one of the city’s community schools, which serve larger shares of high-needs students.

New York Times. The Influential Group Helping Eric Adams Identify a Vision for New York   The proposed policy framework, which will be announced on Tuesday, would center on three areas: using day care as an economic development tool; strengthening the city’s mental health infrastructure; and developing incentives to recruit and train teachers… Tiered pay and other incentives, such as housing and signing bonuses, are some of the think tank’s initial ideas to help attract and retain more teachers.

Teachers College. How to Maximize Your Tech Game, Thanks to TC’s Digital Futures Institute: At TC’s DFI, scholars reimagine how technology can (and will) change research and learning – and the way we live   As part of their commitment to public service and scholarship, DFI scholars are leveraging research and pedagogy to help early career K-12 teachers throughout New York effectively integrate tech into their lesson plans through their “Teachers Supporting Teachers” program. The program, which DFI runs in partnership with the Office of Teacher Education, launched earlier this year.