GLOBAL
RNZ. Auckland secondary school principals worried by teacher shortage Hargreaves said students were not graduating from teacher education programmes in the numbers and subjects that were needed, and very few foreign teachers were able to enter New Zealand.
Sahara Reports. US Government Seeks To Equip 300 Nigerian Teachers With Tech Skills Declaring the workshop open, U.S. Consulate Public Affairs Officer Stephen Ibelli, reiterated the U.S. Mission’s commitment to supporting a more educated population by increasing and strengthening the capacity of Nigerian teachers through teacher training workshops and exchange programs.
World Federation of Associations of Teacher Education (WFATE). 6th Biennial WFATE Conference “Social Justice in Education. Celebrating Diversity, Inclusion and Interculturalism in Our Global Society” [ 12-15 November 2021]
UNITED STATES
AACTE/SCALE. October 2021 Newsletter News From edTPA®
Associated Press. White House Continues to Support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Through the FY22 budget request and the Build Back Better plan, President Biden has proposed $60 million for the Augustus Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program to support teacher preparation programs at HBCUs and minority-serving institutions (MSIs).
Chalkbeat.
1) Philly needs more Black teachers. A new report shares insights on how to retain them. The district has created several teacher residency and fellowship programs geared towards people of color. It is working on helping paraprofessionals in schools, many of whom are from the community, to earn teaching credentials… A teacher academy at Science Leadership Academy-Beeber helps high school students pursue a career in education.
2) The latest Nobel Prize winner: Researcher who helped show money matters for schools Joshua Angrist — a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who has studied charter schools, class sizes, and teacher certification rules — also won the prize…In two studies published in 1992, Card found that American students who attended schools with smaller class sizes and higher teacher salaries wound up with better paying jobs as adults.
District Administration. Advocacy for educator preparation has never been more critical Advocacy is a tool that creates a collective voice for change and navigates our path to continuous improvement. We must advocate for educator preparation to rectify and amend past policies, that although implemented with good intent, have since failed to achieve intended goals and are inherently flawed.
EdWeek.
1) Popular Literacy Materials Get ‘Science of Reading’ Overhaul. But Will Teaching Change?: Lucy Calkins and Jennifer Serravallo Are Among Those Making Shifts … more states started to mandate teacher training in, and classroom attention to, foundational skills instruction in an effort to adhere to what came to be referred to as the “science of reading”.. And Calkins, of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, has announced upcoming revisions to her popular Units of Study for Teaching Reading program. The changes, Calkins said, will incorporate more explicit instruction in phonics and remove some prompts that ask students to look to pictures or context for word identification.
2) Thousands of Teachers Who Were Denied Loan Forgiveness Will Get a Second Chance. The department has agreed to reconsider upon request the application of any borrower who pursued the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and was denied, and to automatically review all applications from borrowers that have made payments on a direct loan for at least a decade and were denied before November 2020.
KTSM. NMSU to fill teacher vacancies with help from students in special education program New Mexico State University aims fill special education teaching vacancies with students enrolled in the THRIVE Special Education Alternative Licensure Program.
NYTimes. Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded’: A Black superintendent’s email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm. Born and raised in West Baltimore, Dr. Kane, 56, had wanted to be a teacher ever since she served as a teacher’s assistant in Sunday school. … In 1996, she took a job as a substitute in the Anne Arundel County Public Schools, a district adjacent to Queen Anne’s, while she pursued her teaching certificate.
Phi Delta Kappan. Building a more ethnoracially diverse teaching force: New directions in research, policy, and practice The special report highlights the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color (AERA, 2022) by Gist and Bristol, featuring research by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) educators on developing a more diverse teacher workforce.
Washington Post. American Federation of Teachers settles lawsuit against Education Dept. over loan forgiveness program The agreement resolves a 2019 lawsuit the teachers union filed against then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the department alleging gross mismanagement of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. It affords teachers, firefighters, nurses and other public servants who have been denied cancellation a case review by the Education Department and credit for years of past payments.
NEW YORK STATE
NYSED
1) Board of Regents Meeting Agenda [October 18-19]
2) Family Newsletter. Students taught by teachers that look like them benefit both academically and emotionally. NYSED recently awarded $3.45 million in Teacher Opportunity Corps II (TOC II) grants to 17 New York colleges and universities [including Teachers College] to increase the rate of historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged individuals in teaching careers. The project period is September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2026, with an anticipated allocation of $3.45 million annually. Programs like TOC II can deliver a more diverse workforce to schools across the state, and we must continue to support them.
NEW YORK CITY
Gothamist. “I’m Just Not Trained For This”: Dept. Of Education Office Workers Sent To Understaffed NYC Schools De Blasio said these reassigned Central staffers had experience and pedagogical licenses to work in classrooms with students. “We have thousands and thousands of vaccinated, experienced substitute teachers ready to go”… Still, some Central staffers without educational experience have found themselves in classrooms.
NYC Council. Int 2374-2021. This bill would require each classroom in a school of the city school district of the city of New York provide 35 square feet of net floor area per child by September 2024, with no less than one-third of schools complying with such targets by September 2022, and no less than two-thirds of schools complying with such targets by September 2023.
NYTimes. The End of Gifted Programs?: New York City may overhaul its elementary admissions to the selective track. De Blasio’s plan would permanently end the kindergarten tests. “The era of judging 4-year-olds based on a single test is over,” he said in a statement. Instead, de Blasio proposed retraining teachers to accommodate kindergarten students who need accelerated learning, which could cost tens of millions of dollars.
Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC). October 2021 Educator Resources
