GLOBAL
All Africa. Africa: Teachers Shoulder the Burden – Improving Support in Crisis Contexts [co-authored by TC Assoc. Prof. M. Mendenhall] To respond to teachers’ needs, our organizations, Education Cannot Wait and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) have forged a new partnership to build a toolkit that focuses on teacher well-being, particularly in emergency settings – a resource that will be developed in collaboration with teachers…Enable teachers to support all learners by continuously investing in and dramatically improving the nature and quality of teacher preparation, continuous professional development, and sustained support.
University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education. Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education (ALiTE) International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship and Knowledge Exchange. Lecture by Prof. M. Cochran-Smith, Boston College: Global Trends and Challenges in Teacher Education and The Place of Teacher Inquiry [via Zoom, Oct. 15 6pm HK SAR]
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs Even teacher prep programs that are offered via online courses don’t necessarily instruct teacher candidates how to educate students remotely, says Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Artesia Daily Press. New Mexico offers scholarships for advanced teacher training New Mexico offers scholarships for advanced teacher training. State officials say they’re making funds available to mid-level public school teachers to cover the cost of continuing education certifications that can lead to a significant salary increase.
Chalkbeat. Harper Lee’s love letter to teaching” Before ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Lee wrote about why people become educators. She never taught, but her first job when she moved to New York City from a small town in Alabama involved editing an education trade magazine… Lee was writing up a survey of some 57 people who all answered the question: “Why did you enter the teaching profession?” … Some were inspired by memories of teachers who had changed their lives, others by a love of children and young people. Some felt a patriotic calling to help educate good citizens, including a young veteran of World War II. In another sign of the times, some had taken aptitude and interests tests that suggested they would be good at teaching.
Colorado Sun. Colorado’s substitute teacher shortage, worsened by coronavirus, could force some schools to close. Again.: Districts are finding creative ways to fill the gap, leaning on their own teachers, administrators and even parents to sub Subs who have a bachelor’s degree and are licensed teachers or have a substitute teaching license receive $100 per day, and subs who have a high school diploma and their substitute teaching license are paid $90 per day.
Council on the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). Public Comment Page. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to the CAEP Standards for Educator Preparation. The CAEP Board of Directors received recommendations from a task force charged with reviewing the standards and has approved a public comment period through November 2,2020.
EdWeek.
1) Gates Foundation Unveils Grants to Make Algebra More Culturally Relevant In Seattle last year, the school district created a new framework designed to “rehumanize” math… The move received acclaim from some educators and scholars of mathematics education, but also faced pushback from conservative commentators.
2) How to Make Science Class Relevant During the Pandemic. … fewer than half of all science teachers surveyed in Horizon Research’s “2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education” report responded that they feel “very well prepared” to encourage students’ interest in science and/or engineering. Among elementary teachers, that figure is just 26 percent.
National Education Association. How Did an NEA Member Get $103,000 in Student Debt Erased? With the help of NEA, music teacher Sean Ichiro Manes [TC MA, ’01 EdM ‘04] navigated federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a program that needs improving.
NYTimes.
1) Making Remote Schooling a Family Affair: Parents are more crucial then ever to their children’s education. Here are two programs, thousands of miles apart, that have helped get them involved. [OpEd by T. Rosenberg] When Covid-19 hit, Springboard ramped up. The group trained 3,000 incoming Teach for America members. Freed from geographical constraints, Springboard went from working in 62 schools to 667.
2) Resources for Teachers.
3) What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in 2020 America. In 2018, the starting salary for a public-school teacher averaged $38,000. In more than 1,000 districts, even the highest paid public-school teachers with advanced degrees and decades of experience earn less than $50,000.
SFGate. Top teacher hopes more equitable system follows pandemic John Arthur, Utah’s Teacher of the Year…credits his teachers for taking a personal interest in him and supporting him after his grandmother, who lived with his family, died…After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Utah, Arthur worked as a substitute teacher and discovered his passion for working with children. He returned to college to earn a masters degrees in elementary education and special education from Westminster College.
Washington Post.
1) Former D.C. Public Schools chancellor: Black cultural education ‘could change the entire calculus’ for children Q: much of your prior work—DCPS, New Teacher Project, Teach for America, Chan Zuckerberg—focused on improving schools, education systems A: Well I think this is a systemic play I’m making now… the content we’re developing is as important for non-African Americans to learn as it is for African Americans.
2) It’s been a week for Trump conspiracy theories. Here’s how to teach students to identify them — and more news literacy lessons.
3) Pandemic teaching, in their words As crazy as this sounds, I feel like I can relate to my students more than I ever have in my entire career. I’m learning with them. I’m growing with them.
NEW YORK STATE
AACTE. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Early Childhood Urban Education Initiative at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education. One of Bank Street’s newest programs—the Early Childhood Urban Education Initiative—helps uncredentialed early childhood educators in under-resourced New York City neighborhoods complete their certification and earn master’s degrees while remaining employed in their existing early childhood classrooms.
New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE). Sharing Educational Goals In These Challenging Times. [Oct. 7 4pm Via Zoom]
NYSED. Memo: Extension of Distance Education Flexibility for the Spring 2021 Semester NYS Education Department guidance for NYS Colleges and Universities related to distance education and the Spring 2021 semester.
Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB). Meeting Minutes May 2020
NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College.
1) A New Vision for American Education: A book co-authored by TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford wins a Critics’ Choice Book Award. It analyzes policies long in the making and charts a new future for school leadership. They trace how market-driven approaches to education reform have ensured that “teachers, administrators, and students will be more mobile, leading to less stability and a weakening of professional expertise and organizational capacity.” They demonstrate that “a new generation of teachers and administrators is being socialized into a very different workplace with a different conception of teaching and leading.” And they lament a diminished faith in public education and the government’s ability to administer it..
2) On World Teachers Day, A Call to Recognize and Support Those Working in Emergency Conditions. Mendenhall has been one of the world’s driving forces in refugee education. During the past several years, as part of INEE’s Teachers in Crisis Contexts Collaborative, she has spearheaded Teachers for Teachers, a research-based teacher professional development initiative operating in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, that delivers teacher training, coaching, and mobile mentoring.
3) Teaching Residents @ Teachers College. October 2020 I TR@TC Induction Newsletter
4) Walking the Curriculum Walk: For Jacqueline Simmons, Online Course Design is a Standing Invitation to Rewrite the Script I’m always interested in helping students expand upon the ways they view curricula — whether that’s in education, pop culture or public spaces. This course is designed to do so in a digital format, yet prepare students to teach these concepts in the classroom.
