GLOBAL
Manila Standard. Poor teacher training …the quality of education that future teachers are getting needs much improvement as half of the schools training them perform poorly in the annual licensure exams for educators.
Medical Press [Norway]. Researcher builds kit designed to make our brain’s activity easier for students to understand Pål Kvello, an associate professor at NTNU’s Department of Teacher Education…creating a building kit of neurons that shows how the nervous system works in a simple way came up while he was working on his doctorate in neurobiology… Kvello received a good response to this idea in his new teacher education position…
The Tribune [India]. GNDU gets nod for teacher education programmes Northern Regional Committee, National Council for Teacher Education, New Delhi, has approved Integrated Teacher Education Programmes (ITEP) vis-a-vis BA-B.Ed, BSc-B.Ed and B.Com-B.Ed for secondary stage teachers to the Department of Education, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), from the session 2023-24. The intake capacity of these courses is 50 students each…
UNITED STATES
AACTE
1) Annual Meeting Keynote. Revolutionizing the Future: Emerging Scholars Consider the Impact of Academic Censorship [Sat., Feb. 25, 3:45 – 5:15 p.m Indianapolis]
2) Tips for Supporting Teachers at Every Phase of Their Career A webinar discussion on teacher support featuring Lynn M. Gangone, Machel Mills-Miles, Ann Stark, and Brent Raby [Wed. Feb,15, 4:00 pm EST]
Chalkbeat.
1) Gov. Lee aims to raise minimum salary for Tennessee teachers to $50,000 by 2027 Lee’s education chief, Penny Schwinn, told Chalkbeat that a large jump in base pay would transform efforts to recruit educators to the profession — and retain them in subsequent years.
2) Pre-K for all Michigan 4-year-olds sounds good. But will there be enough teachers? A certified early childhood educator can make $20,000 more per year working with K-3 students rather than 4-year-olds… Certified preschool teachers are among the highest paid early educators in Michigan; most child care workers make far less.
3) Teacher apprenticeships among solutions lawmakers consider for educator shortages A teacher apprenticeship program, stipends and loan forgiveness for student teachers, and the ability for out-of-state teachers to more easily qualify to work in Colorado. Those are the ideas Colorado lawmakers have proposed this year…
4) Whitmer wants to extend help for future educators, but drops teacher retention bonus plan …plan to continue the MI Future Educator incentive program …It provides $50 million in stipends for student teachers and $25 million in scholarships for education majors. Her new budget proposal would maintain those spending levels and add $25 million to “ensure sustainability of the program,”…
Education Week.
1) Gholdy Muhammad Champions ‘Unearthing Joy’ in Her New Book As I continue to teach young people, preservice teachers, and scholars, while working with school leaders, I find that we need joy more than ever.
2) Pennsylvania School Funding Is Unconstitutional, Judge Says. Here’s What Could Happen Next … the judge provided such a detailed analysis tackling the question of whether Pennsylvania students actually receive the education the state constitution entitles them to, said Michael Rebell, executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at the Columbia University Teachers College, which tracks legal cases on school funding nationwide.
3) Teacher-Prep Programs Miss Chances to Build Teachers’ Content Knowledge, Report Says The analysis, released today, comes from the National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy group that advocates for more rigorous teacher preparation. The organization has previously reviewed preparation requirements in other elementary subjects including early reading and math.
4) Why Recruiting Bilingual Educators Works Aside from having the language skills or certification, I want someone who believes in these students. We’re not going to force you to become a bilingual teacher, even if you have the right certification.
FiveThirtyEight. Why More States Don’t Have Universal Pre-K In general, as with other levels of education, the advocates and researchers I spoke with defined high-quality as having: *Teachers who are educated at least through college;…
Hechinger Report. Is a ‘DARPA for education’ finally happening?: Advocates say new government funding is a down payment on long-awaited research and development arm of DOE Education experts say the new unit could help seed advancements in how students learn and teachers teach in a rapidly evolving digital age, in which the education field can be caught off guard by the latest developments, such as AI’s explosion on the market.
InsideHigherEd.
1) Education Department Hints at Possible Delay of FAFSA Overhauling the federal financial system and simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is a significant undertaking for the Education Department. Although the agency is making progress on the project, officials said this week the application might not be ready by Oct. 1.
2) Making Sure a Degree Is Worth More Than a Diploma: In Colorado, falling enrollment and growing skepticism of higher ed’s worth prompted a proposal to measure the “economic value” of academic programs at public colleges. Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers… placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.
Learning Policy Institute. State of the Union 2023: Education Edition “Let’s give public school teachers a raise.” …compensation is just one piece of the puzzle. This comprehensive plan for strengthening the profession outlines additional evidence-based strategies for making teaching an affordable, sustainable, and fulfilling career.
Miami Herald. Florida is keeping students from creating a stable, prosperous and socially cohesive future …we got to hear from a high-ranking Florida public-school official… he assured us that his administration cared about cultivating character and training students to be virtuous citizens who engage in reasoned dialogue. As an educator of educators in Florida, that surprised me. I’m hearing from my students who are on the ground in the schools that the current climate feels constraining.
New York Times.
1) Education Issues Vault to Top of the G.O.P.’s Presidential Race Democratic strategists, pointing to the midterm results and to polling, said voters viewed cultural issues in education as far less important than school funding, teacher shortages….
2) Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies Intersectionality, for example, is an influential theory first laid out by the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. It posits that race, class, gender, sexuality and other forms of identity intersect in ways that shape individuals’ experience of the world… In a written statement to The Times, Professor Crenshaw said, “People need to pay very close attention to this story — not just Black studies educators and K-12 teachers, but everyone who worries that the slide to authoritarianism is real. This is how it happens.”
3) Lesson Plan: The Devastating Earthquake in Turkey and Syria Ways to help students understand the crisis and how they can make a difference.
Washington Post. Thanks to covid, half of kids were below grade level in at least one subject According to the federal definition, high-dosage tutoring is done at least three times a week, one-on-one or in small groups, for at least 30 minutes per session; it is provided by educators or well-trained tutors and aligned with an evidence-based core curriculum or program.
NEW YORK STATE
New York State Board of Regents. February 13-14, 2023 Meeting Higher Education: Proposed Amendment …Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification
News 10. The College of Saint Rose sees encouraging progress in teaching initiative The program aims to increase enrollment in education programs, something the college believes is a key contributor to the nationwide teacher shortage… The full initiative launches in the fall. Registration for the virtual courses can be found here, they will also be posted on the college’s Youtube page in the coming weeks.
The Buffalo News. Buffalo State Urban Teacher Pipeline helps teacher aides, assistants become teachers …residency program is a conduit to help teacher aides and assistants in Buffalo city schools earn teaching certification while continuing to work in their schools. It offers teacher education classes in evenings, on weekends and in summer, provides free tuition for two courses a semester and covers fees and books.
The Education Trust-New York. Representation Matters: A look at the state of teacher diversity in New York Districts and the state can use the significant new funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and increases in state Foundation Aid to support programs and initiatives to advance these key priorities including: Strengthen the teacher preparation pipeline for future teachers and school leaders of color by:
> Requiring diversity data collection and transparency for teacher preparation programs;
> Requiring teacher preparation programs to improve diversity and strengthen program components that prepare all teaching and administrator candidates to educate all groups of students;
> Expanding the Teacher Opportunity Corps grant program, which recruits and supports historically underrepresented and low-income teaching candidates;
> Strengthening relationships between school districts and teacher preparation programs, including the expansion of “Grow Your Own” initiatives;…
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Anticipating challenges to NYC class size law, Banks will launch ‘working group’ The education department anticipates the need to hire 7,000 new teachers to comply with the law, according to Banks.
Education Week. Want to Recruit Male Teachers of Color? Look to This New York City Leader Chimere Stephens, the director of NYC Men Teach at the NYC Department of Education… Now, the pipeline he’s helped build to bring men of color into the teaching force stretches all the way back to high schoolers, continues with college students, and includes on-ramps for those already working as paraprofessionals and in similar positions throughout the city’s schools.
New York Post. Black and Latino educators support lawmakers’ push for more minority-led charter schools in NY … create a new state charter school commission and attempt to dramatically increase the pool of minority teachers by … providing college loan forgiveness and allowing charter schools to offer alternative licensing.
Pix11News. Program aims to increase teacher diversity at NYC schools A local program is working to bring more men of color to teach students in New York City classrooms. The partnership between the City University of New York, City Hall, and the Department of Education to increase the number of men of color teaching is already making a difference in children’s lives… NYC Men Teach initiative…
Spectrum News. City schools to expand dyslexia reading pilot program Banks said he and the mayor are now expanding programs like the Structured Literacy Schools pilot from two schools to four. “At these schools, educators across subjects were trained in evidence-based literacy practices…”
