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.
