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.”
