Tag: teacher educator

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AllAfrica. South Africa: Children With Disabilities Must Be Part of Nation Building   The vice-chancellor said that UCT would continue their work in the field through an accredited research unit, Including Disability Education in Africa (IDEA). This will provide in-depth analysis of TEDI’s data on teacher empowerment, disability inclusion, and the overall landscape of teacher education to support disability inclusion.

Education Cannot Wait. Education Cannot Wait Interviews Karina Gould, Canada’s Minister of International Development   Ensuring that teachers are well-trained and equipped to instruct children who have or are living through a crisis; that curricula and learning materials reflect relevant cultural realities and do not perpetuate negative gender norms…

Global Partnership for Education. Global Partnership for Education provides US$130 million to support education in Guinea, Niger and Somalia   The Federal Government of Somalia will receive US$9.2 million to increase access to quality preschool education, including in existing Quranic schools, build or renovate 700 classrooms to welcome out-of-school children, including those with disabilities, train head teachers, review the curriculum to improve learning outcomes, and conduct annual exams for Grade 8 students. 

UNITED STATES
Education Week. Future Teachers Mistake Black Students as ‘Angry’ More Than White Students, Study Shows   In this study, researchers studied 178 prospective teachers who were enrolled in education programs at three southeastern universities. Most of the future teachers in the study were white women, which is in line with the national teaching force. 

Hechinger Report.
1) TEACHER VOICE: ‘Before teaching Algebra 2, I was an EMT, a Starbucks barista and a real estate agent. I learned to treat people with compassion’    To address these issues, our education system must equip teachers with the tools they need to teach young people how to ask for help through social-emotional support. Unfortunately, many teacher-training programs don’t offer these kinds of skills. I completed my bachelor’s degree last year, and never once did I have any kind of professional development that addressed social-emotional learning.
2) TEACHER VOICE: Reimagine schools?: Three priorities for schools as they make plans to reopen: personhood, relationships and equity
 We must widen our starting points [By E. Shieh TC EdM ’10, EdD ‘20]   In my school, many of my students with special needs and my emergent bilingual students struggled mightily with remote learning’s extraordinary challenges. So, too, did students who suffered depression from long hours spent alone at home, as well as the trauma of sickness and death. We need to be ready to say, more than we ever have before, how we are prepared to serve these students better. 

InsideHigherEd. Government Rescinds International Student Policy: The decision to abandon a directive that would have prevented international students from taking all their coursework online came in response to a lawsuit from Harvard and MIT.

NYTimes. Most Big School Districts Aren’t Ready to Reopen. Here’s Why: All but two of the nation’s 10 largest districts exceed a key public health threshold, according to a New York Times analysis.   But fully staffing the Broward school system to maintain social distancing between students and staff members would require at least $230 million in new funding, Mr. Runcie said, because of the need to hire thousands of additional teachers to reduce class sizes to an average of 14 students.

Washington Post.
1) How to teach in these troubled times: A trauma expert’s advice for educators   But, as we approach fall and the transition back to school, in whatever forms that takes, teachers who do not share students’ racial identities and the trauma of racism — white teachers like me — must commit to anti-racism so we can bring awareness, advocacy and the keenest compassion to supporting students.
2) School in a coffee shop? A different approach to teaching and learning during the pandemic. University of Georgia professor Stephanie Jones takes the idea of unconventional learning settings even further … a professor in the department of Educational Theory and Practice. She is a former elementary school teacher and has worked in teacher education for 20 years…

Yahoo News. Maintaining the Teacher Pipeline During a Public Health Crisis and Beyond: Scaffolding teacher prep with student avatars, virtual classrooms and live coaching.  The Danielson Group and Mursion joined forces to support teacher preparation programs and school leaders in preparing teachers to lead engaging, student-focused learning experiences …

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NYSBA. So Much More Than a Teachable Moment [by B. Rosa, Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents]  …the Regents and I have for so long worked to make the teaching of civics and civic engagement an integral part of what is taught in New York’s schools. It is particularly important for our schools to take on this role now – because we have an administration in Washington now that is fomenting a hateful culture war designed to pull us down and drive us apart, rather than lift us up and draw us together.

NYSED.
1) State Education Department Issues Guidance to Reopen New York State Schools   As schools and school districts create their plans for the 2020-21 school year, they must ensure that all teachers, school and district leaders and pupil personnel service professionals hold a valid and appro­priate certificate for their assignment; can continue to utilize incidental teaching when determining how to staff their classrooms; can employ substitute teachers to address staffing needs for the allowable amount of days given their qualifications and teaching assignment; should work with educator prepara­tion programs to identify appropriate ways in which student teachers can support classroom instruction…
2) Shortened Semester Flexibility for Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Semesters  At its July 13, 2020 meeting, the NYS Board of Regents approved an amendment to Section 145-2.1(a)(i) and (ii) of the Commissioner’s Regulations to permit NYS colleges and universities to shorten the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters from a minimum of 15 weeks to no less than 12 weeks without impacting a student’s eligibility for NYS financial aid.

NYSED Office of Teaching Initiatives. Emergency COVID-19 Certificate   The Emergency COVID-19 certificate is available for candidates who are seeking one of the following certificates that require exam(s): Initial or Professional certificate in the classroom teaching service, Initial or Professional certificate in the educational leadership service (School Building Leader, School District Leader, School District Business Leader), Initial Reissuance, Teaching Assistant certificate, School Administrator and Supervisor (SAS) Provisional Renewal, Supplementary certificate, Transitional A certificate through the Option B pathway, Transitional B certificate, Transitional C certificate, or Transitional D certificate.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. This award-winning NYC music teacher had her students making podcasts during the pandemic   One day, I was sent to a neighborhood school to do a short demo lesson for first-graders… At the end of that lesson, the teacher and the paraprofessional grabbed me and informed me that her young boy was not usually as engaged as he was with me, and he really loved my lesson. They thought I was going to make a “wonderful music teacher.” That little boy has never left my heart! From that day forward, dropping the music ed major was no longer an option for me.

Teachers College.
1) Re-Imagining: The Arts in a Time of Reckoning [by TC Prof. J. Burton]   Perhaps, if we are willing to look, we will also find a way to prepare teachers to traverse disciplinary boundaries, confront the unique and complex challenges of our time, and infuse their pedagogy with bold and imaginative practices that respect and deepen the natural inclinations of human minds.
2) Telling Young People Better Stories About Themselves: At TC’s Reimagining Education Institute, Lisa Delpit demands narratives that ‘uncover students’ brilliance’    “We have to create better relationships between students and teachers,” she said. “The students have to feel they belong to the school club. And we have to help the teachers show students they are welcome, celebrated and a vital component of every school day in every school classroom.”

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GESCI. #COVID19: GESCI Trained Teacher Conducts Online Classes For Students In Tanzania   Mr. Kichumisa is among 400 teachers in Tanzania who have been trained through the African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI ) which is implemented by GESCI…

International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030. Supporting teachers in back-to-school efforts: A toolkit for school leaders   Section IV – Teacher Preparation And Learning

Times Higher Education. Online education: how Hong Kong got ahead of the game   …these initiatives were more demanding on lecturers, and required additional resources and teacher training.

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AACTE. How Educators Can Turn Grief into Action   Besides, it’s not the job of Black teachers to fix the problems of White Supremacy. The most important thing you can do is prepare yourself to teach in a way that liberates your students.  You should be teaching for abolition.

Charlotte Observer. Cooper signs bills into law on prisoner education, cybersecurity and teaching programs   On HB 1096, Cooper sent out the following statement: “Expanding the Teaching Fellows program will get North Carolina’s brightest students committed to teaching in our state’s classrooms. We should include HBCUs in the expansion to improve diversity at the front of the classroom, which research shows can improve student performance,” 

Chronicle. Andrea Burrows, an associate professor in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Wyoming, has been named associate dean for undergraduate programs in the College of Education.

EducationNext. The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”   …research shows that in 29 states, government-distributed test-preparation materials on high-stakes certification exams include the debunked theory of “learning styles,” which holds that matching instruction to students’ preferred mode of learning—seeing, listening, or physically engaging in content-aligned activities, for example—is beneficial

EdWeek.
1) NEA’s Lily Eskelsen García Talks Racial Justice, COVID Layoffs, and Leaving Office   The work that is going to be with us forever, at least in my lifetime, is really going to be having people focus on trying to fix public schools… “Let’s make it more competitive to be a teacher, let’s make it harder to be a teacher, let’s make it easier to be a teacher, let’s do it online.” Everybody kept saying, “There are some schools that have so little, how are we going to get them the best teachers?”
2) Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Teachers: Why It Matters, Ways to Do It   Future teachers of color are also being recruited among current K-12 school employees through Grow Your Own (GYO) Educator programs. Criteria for each varies. Some GYO programs, for instance, require participants to have bachelor’s degrees; others don’t. 

Louisville Courier Journal. Kentucky Board of Education names finalists in search for state’s next education chief    Vasquez Heilig came to the top seat at UK’s education school in 2019 after a stint at California State University, Sacramento. He is a “prolific scholar,” co-authoring dozens of reports on topics including racial equity and teacher preparation…

LPI. Connecting K-12 and Higher Education Through the Use of Performance Assessments 3pm July 21 [Webinar registration]

Phys.org. Prospective teachers misperceive Black children as angry   Prospective teachers appear more likely to misperceive Black children as angry than white children, which may undermine the education of Black youth, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

Teaching Tolerance. Teaching Hard History Key Concept Videos

The Atlantic. What Anti-racist Teachers Do Differently: They view the success of black students as central to the success of their own teaching.   Anti-racist teachers take black students seriously. They create a curriculum with black students in mind…They seek support from colleagues who are effective teachers for all of their students, including black students…

USC Office of Educational Outreach. Spurring Innovation Through Collaboration in Rural South Carolina.  The state’s first comprehensive, university-based alternative preparation program leverages the power of micro-credentials to promote job-embedded professional learning, provides localized coaching inspired by the Carolina Coaching model developed through the Carolina Teacher Induction Program, and includes graduate credit that can be used toward an advanced degree.

NEW YORK STATE
New York State Education Department Office of Higher Education.  Educator Preparation Newsletter June 2020
* Emergency Covid-19 Certificate.
* Teaching Assistant Certificates
* Fingerprinting Fee Increase
* New York State edTPA Full Refund and Replacement Voucher Information
* New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NTSTCE) Test Development Activities

NEW YORK CITY
Big Education Ape. White Hero Teacher and White Paternalism (#3)  Christopher Emdin teaches at Columbia University Teacher College… I always ask my teachers why do they want to teach and I can tell by their responses how closely the white savior narrative is imbued in who they are or who they want to be. I always say, if you’re coming into a place to save somebody then you’ve already lost because young people don’t need saving. They have brilliance, it’s just on their own terms.

Chalkbeat. Back to school? Any NYC family can opt for full-time remote learning this fall   Individual schools will likely grapple for weeks on what next year will look like. At the same time they will need more teachers to cover smaller classes for in-person learning…

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Forbes. The School That Tried To End Racism: New Documentary Looks At Classrooms’ Role In Ending Bias    Dr. Nicola Rollock, Reader in Equity and Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, part of the team of experts observing the “Segregation Experiment,” thinks that it needs to go beyond the curriculum. “This has to be embedded in Teacher Training, and not just in terms of the delivery of the curriculum, but in terms of who is teaching that curriculum, the identity and the lens that they bring to their understanding of their profession…” 

GhanaWeb. Degree education: A case for in-service teachers   One particular dazzling reform to overhaul Pre-service Teacher Training is the Teacher Education reforms, specifically the upgrading of the College of Education to Universities affiliated to the five main public universities.

Globe and Mail. Ontario unveils updated elementary math curriculum   The government said last fall that it was investing $200-million over four years on a math strategy that included professional development for teachers … It also initiated a math proficiency test for future teachers and promised to roll out a new curriculum.

Sydney Morning Herald. Cost of priority degrees to be slashed, some fees to soar in funding overhaul   Teaching, nursing, clinical psychology, English, languages, maths and agriculture courses will cost $3700 a year, down by 46 to 62 per cent.

UNESCO. 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report: Inclusion and Education
*teachers need to be prepared to teach students with varied backgrounds and abilities
*Training on inclusion tends to focus on teaching skills for specialists.
*Mainstream and special school teachers tend to be trained separately and the latter are more likely to be negative about inclusion as the best way to educate all students.
* To be of good quality, teacher education must be relevant to teachers’ needs, cover multiple aspects of inclusive teaching for all learners and include follow-up support to help teachers integrate new skills into classroom practices…

UNITED STATES
Chronicle of Higher Education. Jenna Shim, a professor in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Wyoming, will become associate dean for graduate programs in the college on July 1.

Education Week.
1) Can Teachers Really Do Their Jobs in Masks?   …particularly concerned about phonics and phonemic awareness instruction. She recently went through two weeks of professional development with the Orton-Gillingham approach, which is a multisensory way to teach early reading. A major focus in the training centered around having children watch her mouth.
2) Why These Teachers and Students Want Juneteenth in the Curriculum   …news stories from other places in the country about attempts to teach black history gone wrong, like teachers who ask black students to reenact slavery. “A lot of teachers aren’t really qualified 100 percent to teach this material, because they weren’t trained in how to teach this material,” Mondesir said.

Hechinger Report. Education companies see an “upside to the pandemic” for business   K12 Inc. has faced frequent criticism about poor student performance and been subject to legal scrutiny… Davis defended the company’s teacher prep, which he said ensures that students receive the necessary support. “K12 has two decades of honing the skills and training teachers need to be effective in the online classroom,” 

Learning Policy Institute. Raising Demands and Reducing Capacity: COVID-19 and the Educator Workforce   National data on teacher preparation enrollments for next fall are not available. An informal survey of the 15 educator preparation programs in the Educator Preparation Laboratory—a mix of public and private programs from across 10 states—suggests that, while enrollment is relatively stable now, deferments are on the rise. 

Nevada Today. LGBTQ+ teaching mentorships need growth in diversity in education   Student teachers who identify as LGBTQ+ face a number of challenges while navigating their education- both in the university and public schools where they student teach…Deciding when to come out, and where, is perhaps one of the most trying decisions a student-teacher faces, especially if it can get you fired.

Santa Maria Sun. Cunningham bill expands qualification options for teacher credential candidates   …Assembly Bill 1982, would allow teacher credential candidates to satisfy the state’s Basic Skills Requirement with an A or B grade in accredited courses approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing… Currently, teacher credential candidates can satisfy the state’s requirements through various standardized testing options. Among these options are passing the California Basic Education Skills Test (CBEST); passing the California Subject Examinations for Teachers; using qualifying scores from past AP, SAT, or ACT tests; and other test-based options. 

Tampa Bay Times. Jeff Vinik invests $3 million on early learning research in Hillsborough County: The investment is part of a growing business recognition that improving education for preschoolers helps build a more talented and prepared workforce.   Teachers and directors also receive $250 for each term they are enrolled in courses at Hillsborough Community College in pursuit of an associate’s degree. And the program covers the costs of submitting portfolios for the national certification.

USNews. DeSantis Signs Bill for $500 Million in Teacher Raises   He said his hope is that it will help the state recruit teachers. “Obviously, you’re not going to get rich doing it, just like police officers don’t get rich,” DeSantis said. “You do it because you have a servant’s heart, but it sure makes it easier if you have a good minimum salary and are able to make ends meet.”

Washington Post. 13 books on the history of black America for those who really want to learn    The national uprising for racial justice and social change sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has prompted new calls for changes in school curriculum that reflect the broad reality of black America…

NEW YORK STATE
NYSATE/NYACTE. Award Nominations due July 1

NYSED. COVID-19 Update: First Aid and CPR/AED Certification Flexibility for Coaches   All coaches of extracurricular sports must hold valid first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/automatic external defibrillator (AED) certification… Given the lack of in-person certification courses, the Department is providing the following flexibility regarding the first aid and CPR/AED certification…

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. NYC preschools are calling for a bailout, saying $65 million in state grants fall woefully short   Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced that the state would tap money from the federal CAREs act to offer $20 million to child care centers to help pay for social distancing measures, such as partitions or cleaning supplies, or training and hiring more teachers.

LoHud. Music teacher: I was laid off, but it’s my students who will suffer  [by C. Hebert TC EdM ‘19] …consider that there are more than 26,000 students in Yonkers Public Schools, but now just 23 music teachers districtwide after cuts. That means there is one teacher for every 1,130 students — roughly 400 more students than the 707 I taught this year in pre-K through eighth grade.

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Market Watch. Global Special Education Teacher Training Market expected to reach CAGR of 4%, Future prospect & Industry growth   About Special Education Teacher Training: Special education teacher training includes various graduate, post-graduate, and certification courses offered by educational institutions and training organizations to personnel willing to teach students with special needs such as developmental disabilities and Autism.

NL Times. Pandemic Aggravating Existing Teacher Shortage, Inequality In Education: Education Council   Schools with many vulnerable students also need sufficient and well-trained teachers – another reason to tackle the teacher shortage.

Phnom Penh Post. Kingdom’s teachers receive ICT training  He said teacher training institutions play an important role in promoting teachers’ quality and digital skills. Soveacha said the recruitment and training of effective teachers is essential to reforming the training system and also a mechanism to secure teachers’ status as noble members of society.

South China Morning Post. Hong Kong teachers to get mandatory training on professional conduct, national development   The notice on training rules issued to more than 1,000 public schools and those under the direct subsidy scheme said all newly recruited teachers would have to complete 30 hours of core training within the first three years of service to “better understand and demonstrate their professional roles, values and conduct”.

UNITED STATES
AACTE/SCALE. edTPA® Announcements and Resources 
*2020-21 edTPA® Assessment Materials Now Available for Preview
*edTPA® 2020–21 Submission and Reporting Schedule Now Available

Chalkbeat. New program will train more Black men to become Indianapolis preschool teachers   Early Learning Indiana is providing funding for Educate ME to give fellows up to $1,000 in stipends throughout the two-year commitment. Once the fellows complete training and begin working, they’ll be paid $10-14 per hour. Educate ME will place fellows at Early Learning Indiana’s nine child care centers before staffing other sites.

EdWeek.
1) Coronavirus Reveals How Math Instruction Must Change, Math Groups Say   Two professional math-education organizations are urging them to put equity front and center as they plan what their math classrooms will look like in the fall… Both organizations have been sounding the alarm about equity issues for years. And both released recent reports calling for closer attention to changing structures and practices that perpetuate inequitable math instruction, including eliminating tracking and ability grouping in math.
2) Georgia Eliminates the edTPA Requirement for Teacher Candidates  Studies have shown that candidates of color are less likely to pass the edTPA than their white peers, prompting concerns that the licensing test is contributing to an already overwhelmingly white profession. 
3) Merriam-Webster is Rewriting Its Definition of Racism. Should Teachers Change Theirs, Too?   The upcoming change holds significance for classroom teachers, said Keisha Rembert, an assistant professor of education at National Louis University in Chicago, and a member of the National Council of Teachers of English’s Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English… “This idea of power and the systemic nature of racism is important when students are understanding a concept unfamiliar to them.”… Humanities teachers, she said, should always seek to create a “three-dimensional” understanding of how race functions in U.S. society.

InsideHigherEd. DACA Lives: Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was “arbitrary and capricious.”   The decision returns the issue to the Department of Homeland Security and means the Trump administration cannot immediately end the DACA program, which provides protection against deportation and work authorization for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. 

MySanAntonio. Laredo father, daughter graduate together   Ricardo Quijano was a history major with a teaching certification as he plans to teach, and his daughter could go a similar route. She had a history major and a dance minor, and she is considering going either for her teaching certification or a master’s degree.

Washington Post.
1) A descendant of slaves explains why it’s indefensible to keep Confederate names on public schools. She taught in one.   In teacher preparation, we were introduced to the concepts of implicit bias, unconscious racism and the hidden curriculums they produce. We are encouraged to confront it in ourselves, our students and our colleagues. Still, an often overlooked environmental aspect is the school name…
2) For “dreamers,” elation and relief at Supreme Court decision extending DACA   … allowed them to apply for work permits, driver’s licenses, and pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Now mostly in their 20s, and working as teachers, doctors and laborers, DACA beneficiaries say the program has helped catapult their families into the middle class.
3) Netflix chief, wife pledge historic $120 million gift to Morehouse, Spelman and the United Negro College Fund   “This is a liberation gift,” Thomas said, because students who graduate without debt can pursue their dreams, not chasing jobs with high salaries but becoming teachers, if they want, or going to graduate school…

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. April 2020 meeting minutes.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.   Ideas to power next school year in NYC: How to confront trauma and foster healing   Christopher Emdin — Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Teachers College, and Founder, #HipHopEd   And as the nation engages in protest about the value of Black lives, educators must work to elevate Black voices, stories, and experiences across subject areas. The chief form of protest for educators is their teaching. 

Teachers College.
1) A Call for New York State to Dramatically Improve Media Literacy Education: Students must be media literate to be democracy ready, asserts a new report from a coalition of civic and education organizations convened by a TC center   Noting that many well-regarded media literacy lessons and curricula already are available (often at no charge), the report recommends a five-part media literacy education framework oriented toward equity:… Qualified personnel for teaching media literacy, and professional development for all teachers in teaching media literacy…
2) Graduate Gallery. On a Quest Against Illiteracy: From Colombia to the South Bronx, Victoria Henry Cervantes is giving young people access to the written word   She spent much of her 20s working in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Honduras and Peru as a Fulbright Fellow literacy teacher… last year brought Cervantes to Teachers College as a master’s degree student in the Literacy Specialist program…

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Brookings. The case for more international cooperation in education  In sub-Saharan Africa, only 62 percent of primary school teachers and 45 percent of secondary school teachers are trained to teach. In some countries, the need for teachers represents half of the entire projected number of graduates from university. A challenge of this scale—including expanding teacher training programs, supporting public policies to build a skilled and motivated teaching force, and equipping educators with technologies to improve teaching and reach more students—is ripe for greater international cooperation.

International Education News.   A view from Nairobi, Kenya: Deborah Kimithi on school closures and the pandemic   Dignitas uses an innovative training and coaching approach to empower schools and educators in marginalized communities to transform students’ opportunities…. trained over 1,000 educators, and have another 450 educators enrolled for 2020. 

The Irish Times. Irish schools and racism: Do we have a problem?   After arriving in Ireland as a 14-year-old, she went to secondary school in Tallaght and trained as a teacher at Trinity College Dublin. She has been teaching at Le Chéile for the past three years. “Yes, I think there is a racism problem in Irish schools but not just Ireland, it’s everywhere. It’s across all of society,” she says.

The Times of India. Goa: Education department mulls home visits by teachers to start academic year   “…the methods taught in the teacher training by DoE should be used for synchronous and asynchronous learning,” Rao has said. As the third phase of online training is still on for teachers, Rao has asked schools to relieve computer teachers and others involved, early from school so they can attend training sessions.

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AACTE.
1) Survey Shows Widening Gap in Supply of Teachers Coming in the Fall  “Our survey examines the critical demands in teacher preparation as we continue to navigate the global health pandemic and prepare for the academic year beginning in the fall,” said Lynn M. Gangone, AACTE president and CEO.
2) Updates to AACTE’s COVID-19 Educator Preparation Policy Tracker Map

Chalkbeat. Fired KIPP founder Mike Feinberg should keep teaching license, Texas admin judges say   The judges’ ruling is only a recommendation to Texas’ State Board for Educator Certification, which will ultimately decide whether Feinberg can maintain his teaching license. Its next regular meeting will take place in July.

Chronicle of Social Change. Black Male Teachers a Rare and More Precious Resource in Wake of George Floyd Killing   CSU is the largest four-year college system in the U.S., and the five campuses in the Los Angeles-area (Los Angeles, Long Beach, Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, and Northridge) collectively had just 85 black male students enrolled in their teacher and educator preparation programs during the 2019-20 school year, according to a CSU spokesperson.

EdWeek. Attention School Leaders: Students Are Demanding Anti-Racist Curriculum and Instruction   As massive social-justice demonstrations continue after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, students in cities around the country are organizing to demand that their school and district leaders provide them with anti-racist curricula and instruction.

InsideHigherEd. Colleges Must Take a New Approach to Systemic Racism   …especially in recent years, programs such as criminal justice, education/teacher preparation and public administration have been increasingly updated to include courses on multiculturalism, race relations, privilege, and diverse identity experiences.

McDonough County Voice. ISBE updates teacher licensure requirements amid COVID-19   Illinois institutions that have teacher education programs can file for the COVID-19 teacher education completion exemption on behalf of their students. They can also apply for the edTPA waiver through the ISBE educational licensure information system.

Mursion. How can simulations be integrated productively within mathematics and science teacher education courses? [June 9 Webinar recording]

NEAToday. Welcome to the Education Profession, Class of 2020!   The NEA Aspiring Educators program and its leaders recently held a Zoom celebration to honor and welcome college graduates who are entering the education profession, and it was a star-studded event, with special guests Erin Gruwell, a teacher, an education activist, and the founder and original teacher of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.); and U.S. Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.).

NYTimes.
1) Teaching Ideas and Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the George Floyd Protests
2) The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free   The United States also once financed education as a public good. In 1888, the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Va., began to forgive tuition in exchange for two years of teaching in Virginia’s public schools. Federal land grant universities established after the Civil War were free for decades, and remained low cost until the 1980s. The City University of New York was free until 1976.

Washington Post.
1) From Zoom to the streets, students and schools find teachable moments in protests of police violence   But John B. King Jr., [TC Ed.D. ’08, M.A.’97] secretary of education under President Barack Obama, says more change should follow. He points to a raft of structural changes that districts should consider, including the recruitment and retention of teachers of color and equal access to advanced classes and extracurriculars that serve as a bridge to success later in life.
2) Resources to teach the history of policing in America that you won’t find in textbooks

Westport News. Schools still need to hire dozens of teachers amid pandemic   Jean Filetti, director of the teacher preparation program at Christopher Newport University, said that they normally hold an in-person career fair. This spring, the Center for Career Planning set up a virtual fair. They had 15 district participate and coordinated 30 interviews.

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NYSED.
1) Board of Regents and State Education Department Announce Regional Reopening Task Force Meetings   Each regional task force will have individuals representing teachers, parents, administrators, school board members, non-instructional school personnel, experts and stakeholders from the fields of health and education.
2) Board of Regents Acts on Third Series of Emergency Regulations to Ease Burdens on Educators, Students and Professionals in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
     Higher Education
*Teaching Assistant Certificate Extension.
*Teaching Assistant Experience
*Certificate Extensions

NYSED Board of Regents June meeting
1) Proposed Amendments to Sections 60.10, 80-1.2, 80-4.3, 80-4.4, 80-5.6…
     Higher Education
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2) Proposed Amendments to Sections 52.3, 52.21, 57-4.5, 70.4, 74.6, 75.2, 75.5, 76.2…
     Higher Education
o Sections 52.21, 57-4.5 and 80-1.13 are amended to permit the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) training to be conducted entirely online …
o Section 80-1.5(1)(c) is amended to create an edTPA safety net for candidates in registered educator preparation programs (EPPs) who complete a student teaching or similar clinical experience during the Spring or Summer of 2020 terms and cannot complete their edTPA as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, holding them harmless. These candidates would be able to take and pass either the ATS-W or edTPA. Eligible candidates who choose to take the edTPA but do not pass it, could take and pass the ATS- W, or pursue the edTPA Multiple Measures Review Process (MMRP), if they qualify (Attachment A #52).
o Section 80-3.15 is amended to extend the SOCE application deadline from June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021 so that school districts have time to identify staff who are eligible for the SOCE…
o For the SOCE and limited extension, special education teachers must complete their satisfactory full-time teaching experience, while being considered Highly Qualified through passing a HOUSSE rubric in the subject area, prior to June 30, 2020….
3) Proposed Amendments to Sections 52.21, 60.6, 61.19, 80- 1.2, 80-3.7…
     Higher Education
o Section 80-3.7 is amended to allow any undergraduate or graduate level course completed during the spring, summer, or fall 2020 terms with a passing grade, or its equivalent, to count toward the content core or pedagogical core semester hour requirements for certification through the Individual Evaluation pathway.
o Section 80-1.2(b) is amended to extend the expiration date of the Initial certificate, Initial Reissuance, Provisional certificate, and Provisional Renewal from August 31, 2020 to January 31, 2021 to provide candidates with the time needed to work in schools and complete the requirements for the Professional or Permanent certificate. Additionally, such section is amended to extend the expiration date of the Conditional Initial certificate from August 31, 2020 to August 31, 2021 to provide candidates with the time needed to complete the edTPA…
o Section 80-5.27 is added to create an Emergency COVID-19 certificate for candidates seeking certain certificates and extensions because there is limited test center availability and schools have been closed pursuant to Executive Order(s) of the Governor due to the COVID-19 crisis….
4) Amendments to the Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB) Bylaws Adopted by the PSPB Members at Their May 2020 PSPB Meeting
5) Proposed Amendments to Section 3.14 of the Rules of the Board of Regents Relating to the Composition of the Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching
6)  Proposed Appointments and Reappointments to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching [incl. TC Assoc. Dir. D. Manning 2020-2024]

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. How to do anti-racist work with NYC school communities: 5 experts weigh in   Amy Stuart Wells, director of The Public Good Project and the Center for Understanding Race and Education at Teachers College, and Diana Cordova-Cobo, a research associate for the Public Good Project and former middle school teacher… As we’re in one of the most vexing periods in our nation’s history, students need support in finding answers through a curriculum that provides vivid examples of structural racism and its impact on housing, employment, and education. 

Teachers College.
Graduate Gallery. “An Ordinary Person, Doing Something Extraordinary”: In charting his education career, Eddie Ortiz has channeled a courageous teacher who risked all   When Christa McAuliffe perished in the Challenger space shuttle explosion, Eddie Ortiz decided to become a teacher. McAuliffe’s dictum to take risks inspired him to earn a master’s degree — and now, to pursue a Ph.D.

GLOBAL
National Center for Education and the Economy. Preparing Teachers To Use Technology   While strategies vary, each of these jurisdictions trusts teachers to serve as experts and lead their peers in the rapidly evolving space of online teaching and learning… While strategies vary, each of these jurisdictions trusts teachers to serve as experts and lead their peers in the rapidly evolving space of online teaching and learning. 

Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Minister Warr Recognizes Early Childhood Educators Week   Today, the Honourable Brian Warr, Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development virtually joined the Association of Early Childhood Educators to proclaim Early Childhood Educators Week, May 24-30…. There are approximately 2,200 certified early childhood educators in communities throughout the province working in child care centres, family child care homes, family resource centres, educational institutions, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations.

Standard Media. Teachers Back Calls to Suspend, Reset Exams. “Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) should reset national exams since the syllabus will not be covered adequately and promptly,” reads a joint report by the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut), Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) and Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)… The findings came after the team unsuccessfully lobbied to be included in the government’s Education Response Committee led by Dr Sara Ruto that seeks to advise on the reopening of all basic learning institutions, teacher training colleges and adult education institutions.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) 2020 Annual Meeting Opening Session: Robin DiAngelo, Keynote Speaker
2) Teaching Online: Moving from Emergency to Planned
3) Updates to AACTE’s COVID-19 Educator Preparation Policy Tracker Map   These changes include guidance analysis of 12 new states, specifically Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming. We have also updated data for New Jersey, which recently issued new guidance waiving edTPA.

Baltimore Sun. Desks 6 feet apart? Elementary only? Temperatures taken at the door? Maryland schools plan for coronavirus contingencies   “It is not about cramming them back into the same old school so we can do six months of teaching in one month,” said Tom Hatch, a professor at Teachers College….Some teachers with pre-existing conditions or older teachers may not feel comfortable coming back into school buildings, and there’s already a teacher shortage in Maryland, where teacher colleges do not produce enough graduates each year to fill vacancies.

Chalkbeat. How the National Teacher of the Year connects preschoolers and senior citizens, even during the pandemic   How did you decide that you wanted to be a teacher? I always knew that I wanted to help people, but when I was a senior or a junior in high school, I was taking a dual-credit college Spanish course, and part of that was volunteering to teach Spanish to preschoolers. For the first time, I got to observe a teacher. I got to see teaching as an art form in that classroom. And I knew then that it was something that I wanted to be a part of.

EdSurge. 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.

Education Writers Association. Teacher Prep, Interrupted: Licensing Educators During Coronavirus: Experts discuss emergency waivers and their potential impact [May 15 Webinar now available]

Hechinger Report.
1) Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change at all.   Mead teaches at a private school where he is given the freedom to explore climate change in depth. However, he mentors teachers around the state who say they’re fearful of broaching the issue. Some teachers tell him they don’t even feel well versed enough in climate science to pass on any expertise to students.
2) Schools call parents “co-teachers,” but we have no idea what we’re doing: Learning only happens with a high-quality teacher, but parents have been dropped into the role with no training and little support   Because even the most engaging, thoughtful remote learning programs will not be enough to close the educational divides that are opening wider by the day unless we can provide a serious amount of support and training not just for teachers, but also for parents — holding our hands as we hold our children’s hands through this stressful time.
3) The educational value of a black teacher: Coronavirus is offering a chance to ‘reimagine’ education, but if the new landscape doesn’t include efforts to recruit and retain more black teachers, reform will be a farce   For years, researchers such as Gloria Ladson-Billings, Pedro Noguera, Lisa Delpit, Adrienne Dixson, Christopher Emdin, and James A. Banks — all people of color — validated the need for black teachers in New Orleans schools through their studies on teachers of color… If the purpose of education reform is to boost students’ academic outcomes, reduce suspensions, raise expectations, and even recruit (less racist) teachers into the profession, research suggests that increasing the number of black teachers should be part of any serious strategy.

InsideHigherEd. Can Active Learning Co-Exist With Physically Distanced Classrooms?   Ellen Maddin, co-director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and associate professor of teacher education at Northern Kentucky University, also suggested ways instructors could tap students’ own laptops, tablets or phones to stimulate active learning. “I use Padlet for many purposes — to capture ideas in small group work, as a backchannel if we watch a video clip, to brainstorm challenges and potential solutions, to analyze case studies, etc.” Padlet works well in a face-to-face setting, Maddin said, especially when the instructor pulls the whole group back together to discuss individual/group responses — shared on the large screen.

NEA. Remote Teaching and Learning Courses   Enroll in one of NEA’s virtual remote blended learning courses to learn the basic components of remote learning and successful instruction outside of the traditional classroom. [courses begin June 15]

NYTimes.
1) Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming   The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
2) The Future of College Is Online, and It’s Cheaper: The coronavirus forced a shift to virtual classes, but their continuation could be beneficial even after the pandemic ends.   Professors would need to undergo training on how to effectively teach to a blended classroom. Universities would also be well served to build competencies in content production. Today, almost all theory-based content, whether in chemistry, computer science or finance, can be produced in advance and effectively delivered asynchronously. By tapping their best-rated professors to be the stars of those productions, universities could actually raise the pedagogical standard.

U.S. Education Dept. FY 2020 Call For Peer Reviewers: Effective Educator Development Division … seeking peer reviewers for the upcoming grant competitions. Those grant programs are Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED), Teacher and School Leader Incentive Program (TSL) & Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP). 

Washington Post.
1) ‘The future of public education is at stake’: An open letter to Joe Biden from 215 school advocates
* Guarantee tuition-free public colleges, universities, HBCUs, Minority Serving Institutions and trade-schools to all, not just those who qualify through means-testing.
* Cancel all student loan debt and place a cap on student loan interest rates moving forward.
2) How to recover from our school disaster: Top curriculums, training and resolve   Petrilli recommended against dumping the Common Core standards, since the likely alternatives would be old state standards “that were mediocre, unclear and targeted at basic literacy and numeracy.” The writers said that if states banned weak curriculums and overhauled teacher preparation, progress could be made. 

NEW YORK STATE
Gotham Gazette. New Yorkers Can Weigh In On Recommendations for New Student ‘Civic Readiness’ Standards   In a recent email, the chair of the task force, Michael Rebell of The Center for Educational Equity at Columbia University’s Teachers College, wrote that “Despite the budgetary uncertainty stemming from the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Governor Cuomo and the New York State legislature approved a $1 million appropriation for ‘education in civics, diversity and religious freedoms.’ As a result of this appropriation, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) is now seeking feedback on the policy recommendations developed by the Regents’ Civic Readiness Task Force.

LOHUD/USA Today. Regents to name task force on reopening schools, Rosa says    Rosa said the Regents have been working on its reopening project for about a month and have a “massive” plan to include teachers, administrators, parents and other stakeholders.

NYSATE/NYACTE. Award Nominations   Though the in-person Fall 2020 NYSATE/NYACTE Conference is cancelled, we still want to encourage you to consider nominating a colleague for NYSATE’s Appleby or NYACTE’s Mackey Award. 

NYSED.  New York Register Public Comment Period regarding the Proposed Amendments to Sections 52.21, 60.6, 61.19, 80- 1.2, 80-3.7, 100.1, 100.2, 100.4, 100.5, 100.6, 100.7, 100.19 and 151-1.3 and addition of Section 80-5.27 to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis.  Data, views or arguments may be submitted to: Julia Patane, NYS Education Department, 89 Washington Avenue, Room 148EB, Albany, NY 12234, (518) 474-6400, email: [email protected] Public comment will be received until: 60 days after publication of this notice.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Carranza’s No. 2 at the education department is job hunting outside NYC   Cheryl Watson-Harris was briefly one of more than 20 candidates vying to become superintendent of Sarasota County schools…Aaron Pallas, department chair of education policy and analysis at Teachers College at Columbia University, said it’s likely that Watson-Harris is simply looking to take on her own leadership role.

GLOBAL
Education International. Guiding principles on the COVID-19 pandemic   Governments must also develop strategies to address the consequences of closing teacher training and other higher education institutions, bearing in mind the already existing high teacher shortages. 

Global Partnership for Education. Global Partnership for Education provides $68 million in grants for education response to COVID-19 (coronavirus)   The grant will also train teachers to provide psychosocial support to students, parents and communities. The World Bank is the grant agent in Ghana.

Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT).  Transforming Norwegian Teacher Education: The Final Report of the International Advisory Panel for Primary and Lower Secondary Teacher Education

UNESCO. Breaking educational language barriers in Mozambique   In 2019, CapED piloted the first year of the curriculum in five districts across four provinces (Gaza, Maputo, Nampula, and Sofala) and is currently training teacher-educators, teachers and adult educators to use the 2nd year of the curriculum.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Education Funding and Next COVID-19 Relief Bill: The HEROES Act   Educators across the board praised the bill and lauded its continued investment in education.  These numbers are likely the high-water mark for education spending in the next COVID-19 relief package; however, they do fall short of requests made by K-12 educators who were looking for $250 billion. 
2) How the Center for Urban Education in Denver is Reimagining Teacher Preparation Programs   Outreach efforts are paying off: last year, CUE enrolled 130 students, more than 70 % of whom identify as students of color and over 90 % of whom are first-generation college students. What’s more, 70 % of candidates were transfer students from local community colleges, according to data provided by CUE.

American University Summer Institute on Education, Equity, and Justice. Uplifting Women & Girls of Color Through Antiracist Pedagogy, Practice & Policy [Virtual Conference June 22-24]

Cal Matters. We must invest in teachers now as students transition to distance learning    Every dollar put into teacher training today will yield multiples in a post-COVID-19 world… More than 300 teachers in our district use a reading and writing curriculum called Units of Study, developed by Columbia University’s Teachers College Reading and Writing Project…When COVID-19 hit, I turned to Teachers College to armor myself with tactics to support our teachers as they made the difficult transition to distance learning. I’ve attended daily Zoom calls with their professional development experts, as well as a three-day virtual institute on literacy. 

CCSSO. Tabatha Rosproy, Kansas 2020 National Teacher of The Year  … a 10-year veteran Kansas teacher, is the first early childhood educator to be named National Teacher of the Year…  holds a Bachelor of Arts in unified early childhood education, including special education and typically developing students, from Southwestern College and is near completion of her Master of Science in education (English as a Secondary or Other Language) at Fort Hays State University. 

Chalkbeat. Facing an uncertain summer, Teach for America and other prep programs will train teachers online   TFA is one of many non-traditional teacher preparation programs that rely on the summer months to give new teachers experience in front of students. Some programs are working to figure out how to capture some of that with virtual summer school, while others say they’ll focus on skills like lesson planning in the short term and double down on coaching in the fall.

Education Week. Kenneth S. Goodman, ‘Founding Father’ of Whole Language, Dead at 92   “His greater legacy is undeniable. I bet you that in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s there’s hardly a teacher who went through a teacher education program anywhere in the country who didn’t encounter Goodman’s work,” said P. David Pearson, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. One reason whole language became so popular among teachers was because it emphasized teachers’ knowledge and skill in responding to student needs, rather than scripted programs and curricula…

Forbes. A New “New Deal” For Education: Top 10 Policy Moves For States In The COVID 2.0 Era   States should make sure that providing these kinds of supports for students, families, and educators—as well as curriculum and professional development supports for educators to infuse these skills into all school experiences—is a priority throughout this pandemic and beyond.

Inside Higher Ed. Arkansas-Little Rock Lays Off 13 Professors   Affected are two associate professors and one instructor of theater arts and dance; an associate professor of world languages; seven professors of education; and one associate professor and professor of systems engineering. 

Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. Island University Welcomes Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education this Fall   Starting this fall, Islanders who plan to teach at an elementary school can enroll in the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education…

Washington Post. Expanding AmeriCorps could turn new grads into an army of contact tracers. It just needs funding.   Some of the most well-known programs under the AmeriCorps umbrella, such as Teach for America, have played important and controversial roles in the public sector. Critics have derided such national service programs as domestic “voluntourism,” a way station for well-off grads en route to law school.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED.
1) Distance Education Flexibility Fall 2020 Semester   Professional licensure and educator preparation program clinical experience courses must meet regulatory requirements, and students must complete adequate clinical hours to ensure competency. Updated clinical experience guidance and considerations may be forthcoming based upon the circumstances of the continuing emergency.
2) Emergency COVID-19 Certificate. The Emergency COVID-19 certificate type is now available in TEACH for applicable certificate titles. There were technical issues with the application on May 22 in the morning that have been fixed.
3) The NYS Board of Regents invites applications & nominations for Commissioner of Education & President of the University of the State of New York. [Applications & nominations should be received by June 8, 2020.]

NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College. Making Teacher Preparation Policy Work: Lessons From And For New York

Chalkbeat. In response to coronavirus, this Harvard sophomore created a free tutoring service for low-income NYC students   Aaron Pallas, a professor at Teachers College, said organizations like EduMate could help students navigate a particularly disruptive moment emotionally by connecting them with young adult tutors who may identify with them… The program’s limited training and time spent with students, at just an hour a week, would likely mean that its effects are modest, Pallas suggested. But at zero cost, he added, there isn’t much of a harm in trying.

New York Daily News. The reinvention schools really need: Four New York teachers of the year push back at Gov. Cuomo   But you don’t become a teacher, let alone state Teacher of the Year as each of us has, without dealing with the hard challenges that come with being an educator.

New York Times. Richard Gilder, Donor to Parks, Museum and History, Dies at 87   They incorporated the collection into the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which they established in 1994 to promote research, teacher training, exhibitions and classroom curriculums… Mr. Gilder’s philanthropy extended across West 77th Street to the American Museum of Natural History, to which he gave $50 million to establish the Richard Gilder Graduate School. 

Teachers College.
1) 2020 Convocation. “During times like these, our responsibility to ourselves & those around us is only magnified…Let us empower our communities…May we always use our positions as Teachers College, Columbia University grads to uplift & empower.” —Amann Syed Ahmad (MA Early Childhood Education ’20)
2) Mentors, Scholars, Editors and Authors: More honors for TC faculty, students and emeriti   Professor Emerita Frances Schoonmaker has received the Agatha Award for Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Mystery for her 2019 novel, The Last Crystal… Schoonmaker (Ed.D.’83) directed the College’s graduate elementary and middle school teacher education program — which drew heavily on children’s literature and storytelling — for nearly twenty years.
3) Teaching from Empathy: Dylan Kapit understands disability and difference from the inside   Following graduation, Kapit will head to the University of Pittsburgh to pursue a Ph.D. in Special Education, with a focus on teacher training and the development of a sexual education curriculum for people with autism.

GLOBAL
Global Partnership for Education. Releasing the potential of teachers in the COVID response in low-income countries   Teacher training is also needed to help teachers work with the new modalities required during the crisis… Uganda’s teacher training institutes are offering capacity building workshops to strengthen teachers’ ICT skills to use distance learning platforms during the pandemic. 

International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030. Knowledge Hub  The portal will facilitate information sharing on teachers and teaching issues among members and non-members of the TTF.

UNESCO. Webinars on COVID-19 education response

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE and Mursion Present Virtual Reality Classrooms   This partnership, offered at a special rate for AACTE members, offers educators and students world-class experiential learning through simulations for long-term success. 
2) State Policy Tracking Map: State Actions to Support EPPs and Teacher Candidates
3) Due Dates Extended for Annual Meeting Reviewer and Proposal Submissions

Chalkbeat.
1) Solving Illinois’ teacher shortage is complicated. These five charts explain why  Research has shown that it matters where programs are located. Whalen noted that a majority of teacher candidates choose to teach near where they went to school or where they are from originally. In Illinois, nearly one in five districts is more than 30 miles from a teacher training program, hampering their ability to recruit student teachers and build pipelines to future educators.
2) Teaching reading was hard before a pandemic. Now Chicago teachers walk a tightrope of technology and attention   Chicago adopted a common but controversial approach known as balanced literacy. It uses individual and group reading, context clues, some phonics, and writing practice. Critics say that method, often used in teacher training programs throughout Illinois, is not supported by science on how children learn basic literacy skills.

Connecticut State Board of Education. Temporary Flexibilities – Educator Preparation Programs
–  The expectation remains that spring 2020 ‘Student Teacher’ candidates submit a completed edTPA portfolio where possible. However, the CSDE will waive the cut score for all candidates.
–  EPPs will be able to submit an edTPA Waiver Request for any ‘Student Teacher’ candidate who is unable to submit a completed edTPA portfolio as a result of COVID-19 related circumstances.

Education Week. [NOTE: Full, Premium Access to TC community]
1) Educators, This Is Our Moment to Defend the Teaching Profession [OpEd by TC Prof. Amy Stuart Wells]  As celebrities Tweet that teachers should be paid as much as CEOs, educators must tap into this newfound appreciation to demand policies that ensure educators are well-trained, well-supported, and well-paid for the work they do. Quick-fix, teacher-prep-lite programs—especially for those assigned to teach in the most disadvantaged schools—are not acceptable.
2) How to Teach Math to Students With Disabilities, English-Language Learners   Cathery Yeh, an assistant professor of teacher education at Chapman University in Orange, Calif… said, “Math teachers—we often see ourselves as content-area teachers. Like our job is to be knowledgeable about math and not necessarily responsible for promoting language development,” Yeh said. “But we have to support learning math through language and learning language through math.”

Learning Policy Institute. Webinar: A Deeper Dive into How Educator Preparation Programs are Adapting During COVID-19 [3pm May 21]

Mursion/American Institutes for Research. Findings from a Randomized Field Study of a Teacher Professional Development Program using Classroom Simulation to Develop Mathematics Instruction. [May 14 webinar recording]

NEAToday. Five Educators Share Advice for New Teachers  It’s still too early to tell what the next school year will look like post pandemic, but that doesn’t mean educators are in a holding pattern, especially those who will be newly minted teachers in the next year or so.

New Jersey Board of Education. Waiver of Performance Assessment Certification Requirements During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency  The following guidance provides a description of the New Jersey Department of Education’s (NJDOE) waiver of the teacher certification performance assessment (edTPA) requirement as necessitated by the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and related limitations.  The NJDOE aims to ensure all candidates who are otherwise eligible for certification but cannot complete the edTPA due to temporary assessment disruptions caused by the pandemic can earn initial or permanent (standard) educator certification.

Washington Post. Michigan settles historic lawsuit after court rules students have a constitutional right to a ‘basic’ education, including literacy   The suit argued that students blamed “substandard performance on poor conditions within their classrooms, including missing or unqualified teachers, physically dangerous facilities, and inadequate books and materials.” Conditions in the schools, the students said, had deprived them “of a basic minimum education” that allows a chance at foundational literacy.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) NYS Colleges and Universities Impacted by the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
-Update on Certification Examination Guidance
-Moving to Pass/Fail Grades for Content and Pedagogy Courses
-Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) Core
-Programs that Lead to Both Certification and Professional Licensure
-Summer 2020 EPP Clinical Experiences
-GRE Requirement for Admission to Graduate Teacher and Educational Leadership Programs

NEW YORK CITY
New York Post. NYC DOE slashes fellowship program cutting hundreds of teaching jobs   A total of 475 accepted NYC Teaching Fellows applicants were slated to begin training this summer for eventual placement in the fall.