Month: December 2022

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Teacher Education

Week of Dec. 19 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
MNA International. Armed guards stop Afghan women entering universities after Taliban ban   The ban comes less than three months after thousands of girls and women were allowed to sit for university entrance exams across the country, with many aspiring for teaching and medicine as future careers. “Just think of all the female doctors, lawyers and teachers who have been, and who will be, lost to the development of the country,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk in a statement.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) #AACTE75Days75Ways to Advocate for Education  Tip #9: “Attracting and recruiting prospective students to your teacher preparation program requires personal contact from teacher education faculty members and admissions offices. This strategy is far more effective than postal mail, social media, website, or email blasts.” -Dwight Manning Associate Director, Office of Teacher Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
2) AACTE Contributes to the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact   This initiative began with the Council of State Governments (CSG) partnering with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) to support the mobility of licensed teachers through the development of a new interstate compact.
3) Register for #AACTE23: Attend the Premier Educator Preparation Meeting  Beat the Price Increase and Register by January 6 [Indianapolis February 24 – 26]

Economic Policy Institute. The pandemic has exacerbated a long-standing national shortage of teachers   While the Title II data show a large, steady increase in enrollment in nontraditional teacher preparation programs after 2014, the large and growing gap between initial enrollment and successful completion casts doubt on the ability of nontraditional programs, as currently structured, to contribute to the total supply of potentially qualified teachers.

EdPrepLab. Third Annual Virtual Policy Summit [Tues. January 24, 2023; 1:30 – 3:00 PM ET]

EdWeek. The Teaching Profession in 2022 (in Charts)  Chart #5: Teachers Say They Need More Support in Early Reading Instruction An EdWeek analysis this year found that 29 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or implemented policies over the past decade to bring teacher training, materials, interventions, or teacher preparation in line with evidence-based approaches to reading instruction.

Hechinger Report. While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own   Black and Latino families have a much harder time than their white peers accessing two key tools to literacy: an instructor trained in how best to teach struggling readers the connections between letters and sounds… Nationally, these teachers and schools are scarce and coveted commodities, generally accessible only to those with time, money and experience navigating complicated, sometimes intransigent bureaucracies.

NorthJersey.com Phil Murphy signs law to shift NJ teacher certification testing to colleges   The law also exempts graduates of teacher training programs in 2020, 2021 and 2022 who were unable to take the edTPA or a similar requirement because of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as “abrupt changes in teaching placements or modalities, asynchronous virtual learning environments and school district policies or other restrictions” from the public health emergency.

NYTimes. California Begins Service Program for College Students: Students receive $10,000 from the state to pay tuition and living expenses in exchange for 450 hours of community service work.   Over the course of the academic year, the students will serve 450 hours, which is about 15 hours a week. Half of the fellows are spending that time tutoring and mentoring in low-income schools in an effort to address the state’s Covid-driven learning loss…

State of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy. Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Addressing Teacher Shortage by Eliminating the edTPA Requirement   Governor Phil Murphy today signed S896 w/GR into law, which prohibits the State Board of Education from requiring the completion of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (“edTPA”) as a condition of eligibility for a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing (“CEAS”) or certificate of eligibility (“CE”). 

Washington Post.
1) How dyslexia became a social justice issue for Black parents   In Boston… In the public system, campuses with larger White student populations tend to employ significantly more teachers trained in programs designed specifically for students having difficulty learning to read…
2) Students are behind in math and reading. Are schools doing enough?   Among this year’s 670 tutors are graduate assistants from University of North Carolina at Greensboro and University of North Carolina A&T, a historically black university. Other tutors are undergraduates, high school students, teachers and community members. Each is trained and paid to confer with teachers for 30 minutes a week.

NEW YORK STATE
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching
1) November Meeting Minutes
2) NYS Program Guidance and Standards for Mentoring 2022   The purpose of NYS Program Guidance and Standards for Mentoring is to offer program guidance and a set of standards to build a system of supports to retain and help new educators thrive in their local context and the profession.

NEW YORK CITY
Gothamist. NYC has spent $60M to help new migrant students as schools scramble to meet basic needs   Approximately 147,000 students in the city’s public schools are considered English language learners, according to education department statistics. But, according to the United Federation of Teachers, fewer than 3,000 teachers are certified as bilingual instructors — approximately one bilingual educator for every 47 students who do not speak English.

InsideHigherEd. NYU Pauses Music Ed Admissions: The announcement that NYU would pause admissions to its music education program came as a shock to the whole department. Many questions remain unanswered.   Nonken discussed changes in the field of music education … While our program historically focused on training teachers for New York City schools, we want to expand our mission to reflect the changing field and to give students the ability to explore related areas such as music technology, music therapy and arts administration. This approach will also tap into the expertise of the talented faculty in our other programs.”

Teachers College. Columbia Teachers College Presents Defining US Documentary Screening Join CWK Network and Teachers College, Columbia University for an important townhall screening and discussion featuring TC Associate Professor and Cast Member Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz. [Thur. January 26, 4:00 – 8:00 PM EST]

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Teacher Education

Week of Dec. 12 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
Pulse.com. GES delays vacation of basic schools, re-opening date remains the same   … about 44,000 teachers have failed the mandatory Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE). The Registrar for the National Teaching Council, Dr Christian Addai-Poku disclosed this at the 2022/23 Cohort …He lamented that the results of the examinations were worrying, considering the poor performance of the teachers who were supposed to be imparting knowledge to children.

Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC). Production Report: Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC) 2022 – Present  Research presentations in Armenia and Turkey

The Conversation. We asked 900 Australian teachers if evidence informs how they teach – and found most use it, but there are key gaps   Our survey also suggests teachers do not get enough support and training to access research-based approaches.

The Guardian. Teacher shortage could worsen after DfE rejects dozens of training courses  England’s teacher shortage could worsen after the government rejected appeals by dozens of established providers to gain official accreditation for their initial teacher training courses… Only 179 out of 240 existing teacher training courses have been accredited under DfE’s new standards from 2024

UNITED STATES
AACTE. New Board Members Elected for 2023

ABC News. Lawmakers propose raising teachers’ minimum salaries to $60K to stem ‘mass exodus’   Wilson said she’s seen firsthand how other teachers can feel undervalued, weakening the workforce as a whole. She said that her son Paul became a teacher to follow in her footsteps, but his college professors attempted to dissuade him because they said teachers weren’t paid enough… The American Teacher Act would be one remedy to those concerns. The bill, co-led by Wilson and Bowman, was drafted in collaboration with the nonprofit, nonpartisan Teacher Salary Project.

Burlington County Times. NJ task force on public school staff shortages gets final 23 members   In an attempt to help alleviate the shortage, Murphy in September eliminated a key teacher licensing test from state requirements. The educative Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA, will nonetheless have to be replaced with another benchmark to ensure teacher quality, according to state records.

Chalkbeat. Her students were babies during lockdown. Here’s how that’s changed her approach.   What advice would you give someone considering a career in early childhood education? First, see if this is the right fit for you. Visit and observe all types of schools and all ages, birth to five. Learn about Maria Montessori, Emilia Reggio, and play-based schools. Visit a Head Start, charter, or traditional public school, or one of the academically focused centers. 

Chronicle. The Pandemic Accelerates a Decline in Campus-Based Child Care   Many day cares are operating at reduced capacity because of health restrictions or staff shortages… The larger of Amarillo College’s two centers is licensed to serve 135 students, but currently has only 78 because of staffing shortages, according to Dennis Sarine, director of teacher preparation and early childhood education. 

EdWeek.
1) The Biden Administration’s New STEM Initiative: What Will It Mean for K-12 Schools?   Micron, a semiconductor, memory, and storage manufacturer, and the National Science Foundation plan to invest $10 million to accelerate training of new STEMM teachers, support the retention of existing STEMM educators, and advance diversity and equity in the STEMM teacher workforce.
2) Teachers Would Make at Least $60K Under New Federal Bill   The bill also would dedicate funds to a national campaign that would expand awareness of the value of teaching and encourage secondary and college students to consider the career. 
3) Virtual Career Fair for Teachers and K-12 Staff [January 26, 2023; 2:00 to 6:00 PM EST]

Forbes. New Bill Aims To End The Teacher Shortage With Higher Pay   Aiming to drastically increase the number and quality of people entering the teaching profession, the bill includes not only raises, but also national campaigns on the value of teaching. These campaigns may help to attract new talent and strengthen the weak teacher pipeline.

Hechinger Report. Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic: Analysis of 7 million students across the country sounds alarm for younger learners    Teachers in older grades don’t necessarily have the specialized training to backfill what students missed.  A second grade teacher, for example, would likely not know much about teaching students how to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words, an important step in learning to read called “phonemic awareness,” because it’s a skill that is the province of kindergarten and first grade teachers, Shanahan explained. 

Jersey Journal. This New Jersey university is laying off 30 professors, eliminating 37% of academic programs   Cash-strapped New Jersey City University is taking a sharpened axe to its list of academic programs and roster of professors… The programs eliminated include numerous science degrees from Environmental Science, Physics, and concentrations in Biology, Early Childhood and Elementary teaching degrees…

Learning Policy Institute (LPI).
1) The Road to Recovery in Learning: How California Points the Way   …efforts have left no aspect of education untouched, including: * investing $3 billion in teacher recruitment and retention through service scholarships, supports for preparation and mentoring, and new program models like teacher residencies… Los Angeles was also able to open school with all of its vacancies filled this year, while many districts were experiencing severe shortages, in part because it was …reaping the benefits of its several teacher residency programs that produced a well-prepared supply of teachers in shortage areas who have been staying in the classroom. 
2) Webinar: Educator Preparation Laboratory Second Annual Policy Summit [Jan 24, 2023 01:30 PM in Eastern Time]

NYTimes.
1) There’s a Reason There Aren’t Enough Teachers in America. Many Reasons, Actually.   Here are just a few of the longstanding problems plaguing American education: a generalized decline in literacy; the faltering international performance of American students; an inability to recruit enough qualified college graduates into the teaching profession… both intended and unintended consequences for teacher accountability reforms mandating tougher licensing rules, evaluations and skill testing….
2) Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C.   J.R.O.T.C. programs, taught by military veterans at some 3,500 high schools across the country, are supposed to be elective…
3) Why Some Hasidic Children Can’t Leave Failing Schools   Recently, Ms. Weber said, Aaron’s teacher told him that the planets revolve around the Earth.

Washington Post. Study: Public schools paid teachers more than private ones in 2020-21   Public school teachers earned more than their counterparts in private schools in 2020-21, extending a longtime trend linked to licensing requirements…

NEW YORK STATE
Board of Regents. December Meetings
Proposed Amendment … Relating to Extensions for Coordinators of Work-Based Learning Programs  The proposed extension will also have the same base certificate, coursework, and experience requirements as the Coordinator of Work-Based Learning Programs for Career Awareness extension, with some revisions. The revisions include removing references to Provisional teaching certificates that no longer exist and adding Initial and Professional School Counselor certificates that become effective February 2, 2023, as eligible certificates for the base certificate requirement

WKBW Buffalo. Lack of teachers of color in classrooms   …Buff State’s effort goes even deeper, reaching students in high school. The college operates two urban teacher academies in the Buffalo Public School District — McKinley and International Prep.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. This virtual learning program has ‘changed the game’ for NYC’s small high schools  “Pretty quickly I was like, wow this is very different,” said Ellis-Lee, who is teaching AP US History and AP Human Geography virtually this year. “The kids are in a classroom in their school, they’re not sitting in their bed. There’s none of that trauma that we had to go through, thank God. And they also have a live, certified teacher that they already know in the room with them.”

NYPost. NYC parents scramble for kindergarten Gifted & Talented entry   …Adams said. “I’ve also had pre-K teachers tell me, ‘I haven’t been trained to assess whether or not a child is gifted. If a parent asks me for a nomination, I am going to give it.’” 

Teachers College. 5 Must-Read Books on Race & Inclusion for Teachers   To help support and challenge educators at the start of the school year, we asked Teachers College faculty members to share their recommendations of thoughtful, anti-racist works to inspire you professionally and beyond

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Teacher Education

Production Report: Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC) 2022 – Present

Akin-Sabuncu, S., & Goodwin, A. L. (2022, October). Effective Mentor Teachers for Strong Faculty-School Partnership: A Case Study from the United States. Paper presented at the 10th International Congress on Curriculum and Instruction (ICCI), Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.

Akin-Sabuncu, S., & Goodwin, A. L. (2022, August). Mentoring Residents (Preservice Teachers) in High-Need Urban Schools: Insights and Lessons from a Clinically Rich Urban Teacher Residency Program. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.

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Teacher Education

Week of Dec. 5 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
CBS News 60 Minutes (Mozambique). Restoring Gorongosa National Park after decades of war   We now work in 89 primary schools, which is every single school that surrounds this national park. We’re training 600 schoolteachers right now. Now think about how difficult it is to create a school system when you don’t have schoolteachers that know how to read and write because of generations of war. 

InsideHigherEd. Ukrainian Students Enrich U.S. Campuses    Andriyana Baran spent the 2020–21 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in the United States… Then she returned to her home country of Ukraine to work as a language instructor for Teach for Ukraine, an NGO akin to Teach for America. 

Ottawa Citizen. Teachers college issues review of Oakville teacher who wears huge fake breasts as parents ponder lawsuit   The in-class apparel of the transgender teacher at the school west of Toronto was revealed by photos posted online by students soon after the start of the school year in September. In response to intense local and international attention, Lecce asked the teachers college to review and consider strengthening its professional conduct provisions.

Sydney Morning Herald. Grammar is back: Sweeping overhaul of English syllabus for years 3-10   “NAPLAN data show students can’t write effective sentences. Teachers are also not being trained to teach the complexities of high school writing,” Knapp said, adding that universities would need to address their teacher training courses to produce graduates who are competent in teaching writing.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. New Data: AACTE Finds College and University-Based Alternative Teacher Preparation Programs More Effectively Address Educator Shortage than Alternative Programs Outside of Higher Ed   AACTE released a new analysis focusing on alternative preparation programs run by institutions of higher education (IHE-based alternative programs). The study shows that IHE- based alternative teacher preparation programs are bringing more educators to the strained workforce than alternative programs run by organizations other than colleges and universities.

ABC News. Amid teacher shortage, Black male educators point to why there aren’t more of them   Sharif El-Mekki, the founder and CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development (CBED), who co-founded the Black Male Educators for Social Justice fellowship to inspire new generations of Black men to work for social justice through teaching, hopes school communities hire educators with varied cultural backgrounds and experiences who come from the communities that their students live in.

Boston College. A. Lin Goodwin is Lynch School’s new Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education   A. Lin Goodwin, a globally renowned teacher-education expert and the former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, has joined the Lynch School of Education and Human Development as the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, announced Stanton E.F. Wortham, the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., dean. Goodwin, who previously served as the Evenden Professor of Education and vice dean at Columbia University’s Teachers College, assumes the endowed position held by Andrew Hargreaves until 2018. 

Chalkbeat.
1) Michigan teacher shortage prompts superintendents to propose new certification route   Regional superintendents across the state are banding together to develop an alternate route to certification that emphasizes early on-the-job training and income opportunities for prospective teachers… The program would be similar to On the Rise Academy, an alternative route program offered by Detroit Public Schools Community District that pays candidates to work in support staff roles while working toward certification. Nine other alternative route providers are approved in Michigan for teacher certification.
2) New program will pay for Indiana teachers to earn license to teach English language learners   The Indiana Teacher of English Language Learners (I-TELL) program will pay for tuition and fees for current educators to earn the additional licensure they need to become teachers of record for students who are learning English. It’s a partnership between the Indiana Department of Education and University of Indianapolis’ Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning
3) ‘Reading is not a given’: National and local educators speak on how to teach reading in classrooms   States around the country have passed laws to teach the science of reading in the early grades… Some have created a statewide curriculum and recommended textbooks, third grade literacy screenings, professional development for teachers, and revamping teacher preparation programs.

EdWeek.
1) 11 Critical Issues Facing Educators in 2023   Teacher-prep programs – Not only should there be conversations about how colleges and universities are preparing our nation’s teachers, but a big issue for 2023 is how those same colleges and universities are recruiting prospective teachers to enter the profession in the first place.
2) How a Divided Congress Will Influence K-12 Education Policy   Sanders, who is known for his commitment to universal access to education and health care, is likely to push for universal free college, efforts to bolster the teacher pipeline, dual-enrollment programs, and expansion of early childhood education.
3) Simple Advice for Effective Classroom Management: 5 important foundations

Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Virtual learning left teachers scrambling. How are teacher prep programs catching up?   Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said colleges of education across the country are governed to a certain degree by what their states require of their degree programs. Institutions sometimes want to be more creative in what courses they offer their students, she said, but the combination of those state requirements and the fact that there are only so many hours in a degree program leave little room for innovation.

Hechinger Report. American classrooms urgently need more tutors, so why not mobilize teachers in training?   The proposed PATHS to Tutors Act would establish a $500 million program to support tutoring partnerships among educator-preparation programs, school districts and nonprofit organizations in underserved communities. It’s co-sponsored by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), John Cornyn (R-Tex.), Chris Murphy (D-Del.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine), and would provide critical investments and infrastructure to create and scale high-quality partnerships.

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). 2022 Report. The Time is Now: Reimagining World-Class State Education Systems   The education systems we studied all were built on a corps of world-class, well-prepared teachers working in schools that are organized to develop their expertise. These countries take a systemic approach to developing teachers, with a common vision for teachers’ preservice preparation and ongoing professional learning. They all have a limited number of teacher preparation programs with curriculum closely tied to core curriculum content and meaningful practice of the teaching craft. 

Washington Post. Shortages of staff and equipment continue to plague schools, new data shows   Many places are deploying long-term substitute teachers, who in many cases need only a high school diploma. Others have created training paths that don’t require college diplomas. In Oklahoma, which has faced a decade of shortages, districts can now hire high school graduates.

NEW YORK STATE
Board of Regents December Meeting Agendas. Monday 12/12 & Tuesday 12/13

InsideHigherEd. John B. King Jr. to Lead SUNY System   “SUNY Faculty and students should be forewarned!” Lisa Rudley, the executive director of NY State Allies for Public Education, said in a statement. “John King consistently ignored the legitimate concerns of parents and teachers regarding the policies he pursued as NY State Education Commissioner, by rewriting the standards, imposing an arduous high stakes testing regime, and basing teacher evaluation on student test scores, none of which had any research behind it and all of which undermined the quality of education in our public schools. This led to a no-confidence vote of the state teachers union…”

Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. September Meeting Minutes

State University of New York (SUNY). SUNY Board of Trustees Appoints John B. King, Jr., Lifelong Educator and former U.S. Secretary of Education, as the System’s 15th Chancellor   Chancellor King holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in the teaching of social studies from Columbia University’s Teachers College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Doctor of Education degree in educational administrative practice from Columbia University’s Teachers College. 

Teachers College. Alum John B. King Named Chancellor of SUNY: A prominent leader in education equity and policy, King will lead the largest higher ed system in the U.S.   Teachers College alumnus and former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. (Ed.D. ’08, M.A. ’97) has been named as the new chancellor of the State University of New York, its Board of Trustees announced on Dec. 5.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Half of NYC students are behind in reading. Hundreds of CUNY tutors aim to change that.   The Reading Corps program helped address both of those problems, paying tutors in graduate or undergraduate education programs between $20 to $25 an hour to work with public school children for three to five sessions a week over about 13 weeks. Before they begin working with children, the tutors receive between six and 12 hours of training in one of two reading programs, both of which include phonics lessons.

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Teacher Education

Weeks of Nov. 21 and 28 in Teacher Ed News

GLOBAL
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Educators as Soldiers on the Global Education Battlefield   Utilizing the network of colleagues through the international educational collaboration between GCUE (Global Community uniting for Equity) and its affiliate in Ukraine, CEUJE (Community of Educators Uniting for Justice and Equity), Rochonda Nenonene and Novea McIntosh,  from the University of Dayton — a Marianist community educating for justice, service, and peace across the world — collaborated with Ukrainian future teachers to teach them culturally responsive assessment and social-emotional learning strategies. 

ERR (Estonia). State provides extensive subsidies for transition to education in Estonian   “We will raise the number of teacher training places at universities, offer more flexible modes of study, provide language training for educators and encourage teachers to enter and remain in the profession in order to increase the number of teachers with strong Estonian language skills,” Lukas explained.

Ministers of the Education Portfolio. Draft National Teacher Workforce Action Plan released   Actions the Australian Government will fund include: * $159 million to train more teachers,…

News18 (India). HP Education Regulator Impose Rs 34 Lakh Fine on NCFSE Group   A hefty penalty of nearly Rs 34.05 lakh has been imposed on the NCFSE group of institutions by the state’s educational commission for violating the regulations of a teacher education programme… Seventeen institutions have admitted students in the two-year Diploma in Nursery Teacher Training (DNTT) and the one-year Nursery Teacher Training (NTT) courses after getting affiliation from the NCFSE in violation of regulations of the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE), the officials said.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Using COVID Funds to Support Apprenticeships   The Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague letter to states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to remind them that they can continue to respond to the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by using funds Congress appropriated in response to the pandemic to, among other things, expand opportunities for high-quality work-based learning, often referred to as “apprenticeships.”

Chalkbeat.
1) Changes to Illinois’ early childhood education funding needed to fix pay disparities, advocates say   …the study compared salaries based on credentials that educators in K-12 and early childhood both have — such as college degrees and professional licenses… The results align with national findings that show early childhood educators in Illinois are paid about 30% less than public elementary school teachers in kindergarten through eighth grade despite having the same degree and license. 
2) Philadelphia gathering focuses on increasing numbers of Black male educators   El-Mekki, who started his career as a middle school teacher in 1993, has created a Black Teacher Pipeline Project, which started out awarding four fellowships to aspiring Black male teachers each year. Now, there are 26 fellows annually and $1 million in the Future Black Teachers of Excellence Fund… A new Pennsylvania law, SB99, allows high school courses on education and teaching to be eligible for Career and Technical Education credits.

EdWeek.
1) A Media Literacy Requirement That Starts in Kindergarten? New Jersey May Start the Trend   An earlier version of the bill would’ve required the department of education to provide in-service training and teacher preparation programming on media literacy. The final version doesn’t include those requirements.
2) As Head Start Quality Push Continues, Advocates Raise Red Flag on Equity   But efforts to improve quality increased the cost of local programs, Barnett said. For example, teachers with bachelors degrees may require higher salaries than their peers without them.
3) Linda Darling-Hammond Wins International Prize for Education Research: The $3.9 million Yidan Prize is arguably the world’s most prestigious education award   When I met some extraordinary teachers and began to study how they had learned to teach, and conducted research on teacher preparation at RAND and, later, at Teachers College, Columbia University, I discovered a deep knowledge base that few teachers could access. I determined then to work on understanding high-quality preparation for teachers and figuring out how it could become widespread.
4) The Architects of the Standards Movement Say They Missed a Big Piece   “Coherence is the next piece of the agenda,” said Laura Slover, the chief executive of the nonprofit CenterPoint Education Solutions and the former CEO of PARCC …teachers in the state didn’t always have the training they needed to implement these materials well, said John B. King, the former New York state education commissioner… Panelists highlighted examples of states that have bolstered support for curriculum implementation…

Government Technology. How Are Teacher Prep Programs Adapting to Virtual Learning?   Teacher preparation programs like the one at the University of Texas have overhauled their curricula to incorporate digital tools for remote learning, as well as training to respond to students’ mental health needs.

Hechinger Report. Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators: Only about 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black, according to the most recent data, while Black children make up 15 percent of the student population   Clemson University’s Call Me MiSTER program has been around for about two decades. The concept behind the program is recruiting, training and certifying minority men to become elementary school teachers in South Carolina.

KSHB. Kansas City Teacher Residency receives $5 million donation to support teacher recruitment, diversity   Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR), an organization that works to recruit, prepare, place and retain teachers in the Kansas City area, has received a $5 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

Lansing State Journal. Michigan State shortens teaching prep program from five to four years to address teacher shortages   The teacher preparation program will retain core elements, including a one-year internship and curriculum that focuses on social justice and equity, according to the press release, while making the program shorter and helping students save about $16,700 in tuition, not including thousands of dollars more in travel and living expenses.

ProPublica. At Washington State Special Education Schools, Years of Abuse Complaints and Lack of Academics   A special education director observed uncertified teachers struggling with no curriculum and urged the state to step in to protect “these extremely high-risk students.”… Washington also doesn’t demand state inspections and has vague staffing obligations. It requires an unspecified number of certified teachers and only one special education teacher per school. 

U.S. Dept. of Education FSA. 4 Loan Forgiveness Programs for Teachers   1. Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program 2. Teacher Loan Forgiveness (TLF) 3. Perkins Loan Cancellation for Teachers 4. State-Sponsored Student Loan Forgiveness Programs

Washington Post.
1) Another big right vs. left learning standards debate. Who cares?   Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, was less pessimistic. “It’s true that state academic standards themselves don’t teach anybody anything,” he said, but “in the long run they affect curriculum, teacher prep, assessments, accountability and more.”
2) Student loan-payment freeze extended as courts weigh debt relief

WHYY. Pa. releases anti-racist guidelines as part of teacher-prep overhaul   This is the first time the state has included what educators refer to as “culturally-relevant and sustaining education” guidelines as part of its requirements for teacher-preparation programs.

NEW YORK STATE
InsideHigherEd. SUNY Sees Massive Increase in Applications   SUNY has seen a more than 110 percent year-over-year increase—from 97,257 to 204,437—in fall 2023 applications.

NYSED
1) Office of Higher Education Educator Preparation Newsletter
* Teacher Performance Assessment FAQs
* Board of Regents November Items.  a) School Building Leader: The Department proposed a regulatory amendment to revise the experience requirements for Professional School Building Leader (SBL) certification by removing the requirement that at least one of the three years of experience in an educational leadership position be as a school building leader.  b) Special Application For School Building Leader Programs To Show Alignment With The PSELS
2) Public comment period on Proposed Amendment.. Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification    Comments must be submitted by December 19, 2022, to William P. Murphy, Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Higher Education, Room 975, Education Building Annex, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234, or email [email protected]. 
3) Public comment period on Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Experience Requirement for Professional School Building Leader Certification    Comments must be submitted by January 30, 2023 to William P. Murphy, Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Higher Education, Room 975, Education Building Annex, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234, or email [email protected].

Syracuse University News. SUNY ESF Graduates Launch Their Science Teaching Careers Together at the School of Education   Syracuse University’s relationship with its close neighbor, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been a long and fruitful one. After all, SUNY ESF was founded as a unit of SU in 1911, and today the two universities share resources, their professors collaborate, and students mingle across the two campuses, take classes together, join cross-campus organizations, and—sometimes—graduate from one college and into the other. That last scenario is certainly the case for six SUNY ESF graduates who, in summer 2022, enrolled in the School of Education’s (SOE) 13-month master’s degree program in science education (Grades 7-12).

NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College. Recruiting for Residencies: Possibilities for Today & Tomorrow [Nov. 16th Video Recording]

Chalkbeat. Computer science classes have an equity issue. Some NYC educators are trying to change that.   New York City is trying to address this through a program called “Computer Integrated Teacher Education” to help train more than 1,000 New York City teachers to integrate computing across subjects. The $14 million initiative, announced Monday, is funded through a public/private partnership with the education department, CUNY, Google, Robin Hood, and Gotham Gives…

Teachers College. What You May Not Know About TC Alum & Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm: In honor of what would have been the legend’s 98th birthday, a look at her life and lasting impact   “I enrolled in TC to follow a career in the classroom, because I felt then, as I feel now, that education is the only real passport out of poverty,… If teachers are valuable to society, the school that teaches the teachers bears enormous responsibility to the next generation,” Chisholm wrote. “TC must continue to make sure that it graduates a diverse and innovative pool of educators who believe every child has something to give and that we are at our best as a society when the doors of opportunity are open wide for them all.”