Tag: Teacher Prep

GLOBAL
NCEE. Empowered Educators Webinar Series: Recruitment and Preparation [Aug. 24, 3-4pm]

International Ed News. Promoting Social Justice in Physical Education Around the World

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Collaboration and Compromise: The Key to Good Policy Making  Fortunately for teacher preparation in North Carolina, NCACTE was involved in the development of this and many other bills proposed.  We’re grateful to Senator Barefoot for seeing past the negative rhetoric around teacher preparation and seeing us as a viable partner.
2) JTE Author on Helping Candidates Address Academic Language

Argus Leader. Can Sioux Falls Schools close its teacher diversity gap?  More than 50 high school students are enrolled in high school classes that feed into a college program that’s helped 15 students so far pursue teaching degrees.

Chalkbeat.
1) 5 key anti-racism resources for teachers, courtesy of #CharlottesvilleCurriculum
2) A Queens teacher on Charlottesville: ‘It can’t just be teachers of color’ offering lessons on race  Hilton Kelly, a professor of education at Davidson College in North Carolina told the site, the coursework isn’t giving future teachers the training they need to talk about race.

Dothan Eagle [AL]. From retail to ‘rithmetic: Second-career teachers bring new perspective to classroom  Purvee, a former Wal-Mart manager, went back to school a few years ago to earn a teaching degree.

EdSource. Undergraduate education major, banned for 56 years, returns  …Gov. Jerry Brown has reversed a half-century-old law that prevented aspiring teachers in California from majoring in education and required them to pursue a teaching credential only after earning a bachelor’s degree.

EdWeek.
1) 4 Tips for Awesome Eclipse Teaching
2) Have You Experienced or Witnessed a Hate Crime or Bias Incident? If you’ve got an incident or experience to share, please use this form…
3) Immigrant Influxes Put U.S. Schools to the Test  Finding and attracting Somali-speaking teaching candidates has proved challenging.
4) Teaching Force Growing Faster Than Student Enrollment Once Again  Are teacher education programs rebounding, and is that easing hiring?
5) The Nation’s Teaching Force Is Still Mostly White and Female  … the new survey, which includes the same questions as well as some new sections on teachers’ preparation and their influence over school policies, will operate on a two-year cycle.

Hechinger Report. DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”  Nonetheless, he made it through the rest of high school, and kept his GPA high enough to be accepted at Georgia State University, where he wanted to study to be a history teacher.

NEA Today. Keeping the Promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness for Educators  PSLF is an important incentive to attracting teachers to the profession, and keeping them there…

Washington Post.
1) The first thing teachers should do when school starts is talk about hatred in America. Here’s help.
2) U-Va. professor: ‘What good is education in the face of someone who closes their mind to facts?’  So if you’re an educator, don’t lose heart. If you think your curriculum needs to do a better job on the history of the KKK, or Nazism, or the Constitution, or whatever, then work for that change.

WUNC. Enrollment At NC Teaching Programs Inches Back Up  The University of North Carolina system saw a 16 percent uptick in education degree-seekers last year. 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. State ed officials rip into ‘insulting’ SUNY charter proposal and ‘outrageous’ Success Academy chair  “I could go into a fast food restaurant and get more training than that,” Elia said about the proposal, which would require 30 hours of classroom instruction for prospective teachers.

City and State New York
1) “Instant” teacher licensing is a threat to charter students and the teaching profession
2) Trump, racism controversies on the syllabus at On Education event There were other signs of tension involving charter schools. Last month, the State University of New York introduced a proposal that would let some charter schools hire uncertified teachers and instead develop their own in-house certification that was less arduous.

DNA info. Charter Schools Could Get to Hire Teachers With Only 30 Hours of Training  Under a plan now open for public comment, charter school teachers will be able to get a license to teach without a master’s degree after finishing a mere 30 hours of instruction and working 100 hours in a classroom.

NY Daily News. New York education leaders blast charter school teacher certification plan  The state’s top education officials ripped a controversial plan Wednesday to allow charter schools to certify their own teachers.

SUNY Charter Schools Institute. Public Comment Period Now Open – Alternative Teacher Certification Compliance Pathways for SUNY

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Bank Street heads to East New York to help child care providers play to their strengths  Site evaluations and teacher training have been a centerpiece of the city’s free pre-K program, which now serves 70,000 4-year-olds and is expanding to enroll 3-year-olds, too.

Hechinger Report. A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn  A third of the school’s students require special education assistance; …. Even with two teachers (one trained for special education), it was difficult to engage everyone.

Village Voice.
1) How Medgar Evers College Is Raising Up Brooklyn and the Caribbean  Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College is trying a novel approach: a teaching program that will train educators both at their Crown Heights campus and at colleges in the Caribbean, where they’re hoping to incubate a new generation of K–12 teachers for the borough and those countries.
2)  To Fight Institutional Racism, Teachers Are Going Back to School  The workshop was part of Teachers College’s four-day Reimagining Education Summer Institute, a conference organized in response to what Amy Stuart Wells, the conference’s lead organizer, calls the “systematic way our educational system has tried to ignore the central role of race and culture” in solving the ills of American schools.

GLOBAL
BBC. How Canada became an education superpower  Another distinguishing feature is that Canada’s teachers are well paid by international standards – and entry into teaching is highly selective.

Chalkbeat. Some Top U.S. Educators Went to Finland. Their Big Takeaway: Empower Teachers  Teacher preparation programs are rigorous and selective, and there’s only about a 10 percent acceptance rate, Nelson said. Because of that, teachers are not evaluated through standardized test scores. 

Commonwealth of Learning. A call to empower teachers to lead the next wave of the OER movement  We will need to rethink learning resources completely and empower teachers, through their initial training and through ongoing professional development, to contribute to curriculum and resource improvement as members of a learning community. 

European Conference on Educational Research, August 22-25, 2017; Copenhagen, Denmark. Online programme.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Dissertation Award Entries Due Aug. 18
2) Louisiana Tech Leads Transformation of Student Teaching With TEAM Model

Bridge Magazine. Fewer college students want to be teachers, and why it matters (searchable database)

Chalkbeat. A new study shows why it’s so hard to improve teacher preparation  It’s a difficult task, since there are two degrees of separation between a teacher training program and students taking state tests, and researchers use complex value-added models to control for a number of factors.

Chronicle. Award-Winning Teachers Reflect on Their Training

Data Quality Campaign. Using Data to Ensure That Teachers Are Learner Ready on Day One [calls attention to current data challenges faced by educator preparation providers (EPPs) and offers suggestions and examples for states to improve the situation.]

Detroit Free Press. Badly wanted in Detroit: Teachers for the upcoming school year  The vacancies are a symptom of a larger problem. Across the country, the number of people entering teacher preparation programs is down significantly. So is the number of people receiving teaching certificates.

EducationWeek.
1) Idaho schools try new tactics to combat teacher shortage  In Shoshone, there’s a relatively new partnership with Eastern Oregon University’s teaching preparation satellite program in Ontario, Ore., just across the state border.
2) Trump Ed. Dept. to Michigan: Your ESSA Plan Is Missing Major Details  It’s seeking a more complete explanation of how the state will train teachers to work with gifted students.

Educators Rising. Smyrna High School Seniors Train with Micro-credentials for Careers in Teaching

Hechinger Report. Will a one-year residency better prepare aspiring educators for a new style of teaching?  Summit charter school network in California will certify its own teachers so they’re steeped in the school’s culture

KQED. For Teachers Who Dread Math, Finding a Better Way  These words aligned with what Zager had observed in her job mentoring student teachers who expressed similar reservations about math. Teachers’ sentiment toward math is noteworthy because research has shown that adults can transfer anxiety to kids.

NYTimes.
1) Professors as Targets of Internet Outrage  The Professor Watch List, for one, created last year by the conservative group Turning Point USA, is helping drive a new level of scrutiny of professors who, it says, “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” [Education faculty incl. Jenn Adair, Univ. of Texas; Bill Ayers, Univ. of Ill-Chicago; Sara Goldrick-Rab, Temple Univ.]
2) Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track  … the four-course sequence for which teachers were training at Marshall University, require math and physics instruction as rigorous as in the College Board’s Advanced Placement track. 

Washington Post. Why immigration proposal would have barred best teacher in America   It took him 10 years of study to learn the language and acquire California versions of the teaching credentials he had already earned in Bolivia.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Amid concerns about plan to let charter schools certify their own teachers, changes could be on the way

HuffPost [Blog]. How Charter Schools Buy Political Support  Cuomo’s political appointees who serve as trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY) are considering a proposal to exempt charter schools from the public school teacher certification requirements they approved less than two months ago.

Politico New York. How New York stopped being the nation’s education reform capital  After the evaluation deal collapsed, other dominoes fell: earlier this year, the Board of Regents, led by opt-out ally Betty Rosa, did away with a rule requiring potential New York teachers pass a literacy test. [Academic Literacy Skills Test: ALST]

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat.
1) New York City to bring high-profile Teaching Fellows program in-house, ending role for nonprofit TNTP  …the fellowship program was conceived to quickly place professionals from other fields into the city’s classrooms, skirting the traditional certification process.
2) Teach for America is sending more teachers into NYC this year — and it might have Donald Trump to thank  The summer institute also now counts as credit toward a master’s degree, offered through the Relay Graduate School of Education, which for the first time helped run its summer training program.
3) What New York City students learned about Christopher Columbus when their own classroom was ‘discovered’  In order to truly integrate, advocates say educators need to take a close look at the lessons they teach. In other words, schools need to be adept in culturally relevant teaching — making sure students of all identities are reflected in what is taught and how it’s taught.

Kings County Politics. Uncommon Schools Creating Pipeline of Teachers of Color in Brooklyn  …155 rising college seniors who are trying out their teaching skills at Uncommon Schools this summer in various locations, including Brooklyn.

NYPost. DOE fails to provide Harlem schools with librarians: activists  The DOE suggested Friday that there’s a shortage of certified librarians to staff city schools.

 

 

GLOBAL
BizCommunity [South Africa]. R3.5m bursaries for teacher education in 2018  The bursaries apply to students wanting to study full-time towards a Bachelor of Education in Foundation Phase Teaching or a Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching from 2018 to 2021. 

British Educational Research Assoc. How do we support beginner teachers to develop awareness and understanding of issues of social justice?  …our work is concerned with the complex intersectionality in England between poverty, social class, disadvantage and educational attainment and in particular thinking about how we, as teacher educators, can develop student-teachers’ awareness and understanding…

Int’l Society for Music Education. My Music Education Life: Milca de Paula  It is necessary to have discussions to face the difficulties in the conditions of the teaching work at schools and face the challenges in the formation of the licensed teacher in music, so the reality of the schools of Basic Education can really change. [cf. IJME, Vol. 35/1, New legislation in Brazilian music education: Studying the law and its implementation]

LiveMint. The sordid tale of teacher education in India

NYTimes.
1) Clooneys to Help 3,000 Syrian Refugees Go to School in Lebanon  A $3.25 million donation from the Clooney Foundation for Justice, Google and HP will pay for transportation, school supplies, computers, content, curriculum and teacher training.
2) High-Profile Lawyers Targeted in Mexico Spyware Scandal … the government’s probe into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Multimodal Explorations in Language, Identity, Culture Inform Development of Bilingual Teachers  This interview features insights from the article “Preparing Bilingual Teachers: Mediating Belonging With Multimodal Explorations in Language, Identity, and Culture” written by Patricia Martinez-Álvarez, Isabel Cuevas, and María Torres-Guzmán.

A.I.R. Fostering a New Approach to Research on Teacher Preparation: Results of the First Convening of Researchers, Practitioners, and K–12 Educators

Atlanta Journal Constitution. Teaching method wins Ron Clark Academy math instructor hero status  Jones figured there had to be something to mixing the arts and math. She decided to find out and in 2007 applied to a doctoral program at Columbia University Teachers College, where in addition to being taught the facts, candidates were taught how to teach them.

Chronicle.  Training Graduate Students to Be Effective Teachers  More colleges are making it a priority to teach future faculty members how to teach

CBSDenver. Not Enough Teachers To Go Around In Colorado Since 2010, there has been a nearly 25 percent drop in graduates from teacher preparation programs, according to the CDHE.

Deans for Impact. Seventeen deans awarded Impact Academy fellowship  Together, the fellows’ programs enrolled about 7,400 teacher-candidates in 2013-2014.

EdWeek.
1) Can a High School Course Help to Solve a State’s Teacher Shortage?  This fall, two high schools in Provo, Utah will offer students in grades 10 through 12 an introductory course called Careers in Education I, with the aim of enticing young people into the teaching profession.
2) The Next Generation Science Standards’ Next Big Challenge: Finding Curricula  It’s tempting to assume that teachers can just develop curricula on their own and learn to teach it—after all, lesson planning is a huge part of preservice teacher-preparation programs.
3) Nearly Two-Thirds of New Science Educators Lack Training in Their Subjects  …almost two-thirds of new science teachers (64 percent) taught at least one course outside of their field in their first five years in the classroom, while 40 percent taught mostly or entirely out of field during that period.
4) Performance Pay Law Not Paying Off for Top-Rated Teachers, According to Report  …the report argues that the discrepancy between salary awards for advanced degrees and “highly effective” ratings flies in the face of decades of research that has concluded that teachers with master’s degrees are no more effective than teachers without one.
5) Skip Coding, Teach Data Science  They find the certification processes deeply flawed and (not surprisingly) want a lot more certified CS teachers with multiple roots to the classroom.

Hechinger Report. Rising popularity of dual-language education could leave Latinos behind  … DCPS is competing with the rest of the nation to hire highly qualified teachers who are not only trained in specific subjects, but also capable of running a classroom in Spanish.

NYTimes. A Wakeup Call on Writing Instruction (Now, What’s an Adverb?)  The Common Core has provided a much-needed “wakeup call” on the importance of rigorous writing, said Lucy M. Calkins, founding director of the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University… But policy makers “blew it in the implementation,” she said. “We need massive teacher education.”

Tulsa World.
1) Oklahoma approves nearly 900 emergency teacher certificates
2) State of education in Tulsa draws Teach for America members and alums passionate about fixing schools

WNYC. Tens Of Thousands More Women And Minorities Are Taking Computer Science  The College Board, Code.org and other authorized providers are also training teachers to facilitate the course… “We are by far the largest player in creating new computer science teachers…

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Among NY students seeking new Excelsior scholarship, potentially many who aren’t qualified or could pay a price later  …TEACH, a federal grant program aimed at encouraging aspiring teachers to enter high-needs subject areas and schools. But, like Excelsior, it places restrictions on the jobs that prospective teachers can take once they leave school…

Education and Teacher Education Today. Letter from the SUNY Deans of Education to the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York  We, the Deans and Directors of Education Programs in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, write to strenuously object to the SUNY Charter Schools Institute’s recent action to virtually eliminate teacher certification requirements for charter school teachers. 

InsideSources. New York Has Nation’s Highest Per Pupil Expenditure; But Is it Enough?  Michael Rebell, …a professor at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University…at the time of the 2006 lawsuit, Rebell said that about 17 percent of teachers in the state were uncertified—now that number is down to under one percent, which he considers to be a major victory.

NYSED. Office of Higher Education Newsletter. The Office of Higher Education (OHE) is pleased to launch a monthly newsletter to inform the education community of current and upcoming activities related to higher education. To subscribe to our monthly newsletter, please sign up on the OHE website at https://listserv.nysed.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ohenewsletter&A=1%20.

NYSED Regents
1) July meeting. Higher Education Committee Consent Agenda
Selected items from the July 2017 Higher Education Committee Consent Agenda are below. To view the entire list and the items’ supporting materials, go to: http://www.regents.nysed.gov/node/8712

• RE: Establishment of a Residency Certificate for Students Enrolled in a Classroom Academy Residency Pilot Program
• RE: Pathways for Candidates to Pursue Transitional A, Initial, and/or Professional Career and Technical Education Certificates
• RE: Permanent Extension of the Option for Certain Out-of-State Candidates to be Eligible for a Conditional Initial Certificate

2) Arts Content Specialty Tests (CSTs) Test Development Experts Needed
Seeking educators to participate in test development activities for the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE) Content Specialty Tests (CSTs) in the Arts. These certification exams are for teacher candidates seeking certification in Dance, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. Certified educators, including those from higher education, who have extensive content expertise in the area of one or more of the four arts are encouraged to apply to participate in the test development process.

SUNY Charter School Institute. Proposal that SUNY charter schools be able to establish their own teacher preparation programs and “certification” system. The public comment period ends on September 9. Submit comments to: Ralph A. Rossi II, SUNY Charter Schools Institute, 41 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, New York 12207, (518) 455-4250. E-mail: [email protected]

TimesUnion. SUNY deans speak out against teacher hiring plan  The deans of education programs at 18 State University of New York schools are condemning a proposal they say would lead to unqualified teachers in New York classrooms.

 Washington Post. What’s the link between charter schools, political donations and teacher certification in New York?  SUNY’s requirements call for clinical experiences that are “diverse and immersive, ideally over a full school year.” The SUNY-proposed regulation for charter schools, in contrast, is less than three weeks (100 hours) of field experience under the supervision of an experienced teacher who may even be uncertified herself.

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College. NY Daily News. Manhattan principal builds successful high school with diverse students  [Kate Burch holds a master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in International Educational Development, with a focus on Peace Education]

GLOBAL
AACTE. JTE Authors Propose Inquiry-Oriented Standards to Capture Complexity of Teaching  This research was prompted by recommendations from a New Zealand Government Education Workforce Advisory Group. The group recommended, in 2010, a number of structural changes to improve the quality of initial teacher education and induction into the profession.

Blog on Learning Development. “Differential education is a competitive factor”  Finnish educator and author Pasi Sahlberg predicts a backlash against global standardization and says teachers need different training and skills to succeed. It’s not enough to have a “reform”. We need to change several things simultaneously and it starts with teacher training.

PRNewswire. Collaborative Effort Between Educators From Singapore and India to Build Capacity in Early Childhood Education in Mumbai  …through the following initiatives: A teacher resource guide which will be produced by both the SIVs and master trainers and used in teacher training programmes to teach pedagogy skills

UNESCO. Investigating Teacher Agency in Implementing the Early Primary Curriculum of Ugandan Schools  This study shows the potential of ICTs in supporting sustainable teacher training programmes whose potential is immense though not yet tapped fully in Uganda. 

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE Chapter Develops Statewide Student Teacher Observation Tool
2) Applying for Federal Research Funding? View On-Demand Webinars From IES for FY18

CAEP. Family Engagement: Practice that Empowers & Motivates  …family engagement is important – both conceptually and technically – for teacher candidates and inservice teachers alike.

Chalkbeat.
1) 6 problems the NAACP has with charter schools — and 5 of its ideas for how to reshape the sector  “Charter schools should not be permitted to waive any licensing requirements for teacher and leaders working in their schools,” the NAACP report says…
2) Schools near state lines perform worse — and rules discouraging teachers from moving may be to blame  …states that require prospective teachers to clear a high bar to become certified may worry that making it too easy for an out-of-state teacher to receive a license could reduce teacher quality.

Early Childhood Education Degrees. America’s Typical Teacher  42.5 years old, female, holds Masters degree or higher, underpaid, teaches 21-27 students per class, not allowed enough time to collaborate with other teachers…

Education Week.
1) Are Charter Schools Bad for Black Children? The NAACP Asked, Here’s What It Found  The group lays out a formula for improving charters that includes: Requiring all teachers be certified.
2) Betsy DeVos Is a K-12 Advocate. So Why All the Action in Higher Ed?   The feds have far more authority over colleges…than they do over K-12 schools…  And the Higher Education Act has been due for a facelift for several years now. DeVos, in fact, has said she’d like to scrap the HEA and start from zero.
3) Computer Science Teachers Needed. But Who Will Pay to Train Them?
4) Don’t Mourn or Applaud the End of $2 Billion in Teacher-Training Money Just Yet
5) To Attract Teachers, More Cities Eye Discounts on Housing  Memphis has a teacher residency program that provides teachers in training with free housing in the former Sears, Roebuck & Co. building, which is now a mixed-use high-rise.
6) The Many Ways We Are De-Professionalizing Teaching [Blog] …the professional preparation and advancement of teaching looked very different 25 years ago … The talk then was about full-year field experiences and paid internships for prospective teachers.
7) Two Years Is the Worst Amount of Time to Teach  Teach for America turned 25 last year and continues to treat teaching as more stepping stone than career. 

EdTech. As Connectivity Improves, The Digital Divide Persists in Teacher Tech Preparation

Education First. Transforming How We Prepare Our Teachers …new brief on how teacher preparation programs are innovating.

Marzano. Marzano Research to Support U of W’s Future Educator Development

NPR Ed. Teachers With Student Debt: These Are Their Stories  You need a bachelor’s degree …increasing pressure to get a master’s degree and the many ways to repay loans or apply for loan forgiveness.

Penn GSE. HBCU Schools of Education: at the Forefront of Teacher Education for a Diverse Teacher Workforce

Teaching/Math/Culture [Blog] Teacher Education In The New Economy

The Atlantic. Why the Myth of Meritocracy Hurts Kids of Color.  …the onus is also on teacher-prep programs to ensure aspiring educators know how to address these controversial topics.

Washington Post. NAACP report: Charter schools ‘not a substitute’ for traditional public schools and many need reform  The task force recommended … the following procedures: Require charter schools to hire certified teachers. Many states allow charters to hire the uncertified at far higher rates than traditional public schools.

NEW YORK STATE
The Atlantic. How Teachers Are Taught. But Dirck Roosevelt, a visiting associate professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, says … “To know mathematics sufficiently to design a bridge or to supervise the construction of a bridge is not remotely the same thing as to know it in such a way that you will know what your sophomore algebra student is going to find difficult,”

New York State Register. Governance, Structure and Operations of SUNY Authorized Charter Schools Pertaining to Teacher Compliance [p. 23 ff]
Public comment will be received until Sept. 9.
Ralph A. Rossi II, SUNY Charter Schools Institute, 41
State Street, Suite 700, Albany, New York 12207, (518) 455-4250, email: [email protected]
Current SUNY Charter Schools. 165 total, over 140 in NYC.

NYTimes. Proposal Would Let Charter Schools Certify Their Own Teachers  Kate Walsh, …said that charter schools are not set up to focus on the difficult work of training teachers, nor are they in a position to offer the kind of coursework even very talented teaching candidates need to receive.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. New York City has sent its first offer letters for 3-K for All. Here’s a look at the new pre-K initiative by the numbers  …the education department is also providing teacher training, social workers and other support for existing centers run by ACS.

NYCDOE. Application & Hiring Process  Our schools have high hiring needs for teachers in specific subject areas: Bilingual Education; Early Childhood Education; English as a New Language; Mathematics; Physical Education; Science (all subjects); Special Education

Teachers College.Some New York charter schools could soon be allowed to certify their own teachers. What could that look like?  Teachers College Visiting Associate Professor Dirck Roosevelt was quoted in the… story on regulations recently proposed by SUNY that would enable some charter schools to design alternative certification programs.

GLOBAL
Buriram Times. Thailand Still Lagging Behind Other Countries In Education  Large classes were commonplace and students who were not accepted into university were encouraged to apply for teacher training colleges.

NYTimes. A Solution When a Nation’s Schools Fail  “The status quo has failed,” George Werner, Liberia’s education minister, told me. “Teachers don’t show up, even though they’re paid by the government. There are no books. Training is very weak.

Times Higher Education. Netherlands and Singapore among leaders on education research

The Star Online. ‘Chinese education is for all’  …Dr Wee said there was a need to provide teachers with training to better teach the language.

UNITED STATES
Brainerd Dispatch. Franken introduces bill to fight teacher shortage  …encourage an earlier start to pathways for becoming a teacher and allow schools access to a broader range of funding to support dual-enrollment programs in education.

EdWeek.
1) Bill With More Than $2 Billion in Teacher-Training Cuts Advances in House
2) Here Are 10 Policy Lessons Teachers Should Know
3) If We Fix Student Teaching, Will We Fix Teacher Shortages?  The president of the National Council on Teacher Quality presented what she sarcastically called a “radical” solution for both improving the pipeline of new teachers and filling specific teacher shortages: “Fix student teaching.”
4) Tennessee education coalition focuses on teacher diversity  A new report released by a group of Tennessee educator preparation programs focuses on eliminating the barriers preventing diverse candidates from choosing teaching as a career.
5) Unable to Solve Teacher Pay Issue, Oklahoma Will Promote Recruitment, Retention  … outline what programs exist to help teachers, namely state-funded loan forgiveness and tuition assistance…
6) What Should Special Education Teachers Know and Be Able to Do?  Teacher-education programs have already started to shift their training to embrace the high-leverage practices…

Hechinger Report. Advocating for rural students and teachers – in frozen, fly-in-only territory  I think we need to look at how we train teachers, [and] the general public, about our history and what has happened with our indigenous community, because most people don’t really know the history.

NCTR. Recommendations for State Support for Effective Teacher Residencies

NPR Ed. Teachers With Student Debt: The Struggle, The Causes And What Comes Next  Public school teachers traditionally have had undergraduate degrees in education. But over the past decade, K-12 teachers have had a growing economic incentive to earn master’s degrees. In some cases, they’re actually required to do so.

The74. House Committee Rejects Democrats’ Bid to Restore Education Funding, Protect Teacher Training

USNews. Democrats Protest Cuts to Teacher Prep and Pell Grants

Vanderbilt Univ. Teach for America service leads to empathy  TFA is a national service program that puts college graduates into low-income communities as volunteers for two years to help disadvantaged students. It was founded in 1989, based on founder Wendy Kopp’s Princeton University undergraduate thesis.

WashingtonPost. A teacher’s anti-solution to a big problem  So if colleges aren’t preparing students for the jobs that students really want and for the employers who need to hire them, then K-12 schools must. 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. State education officials question another batch of Success Academy charter renewals  The board is not scheduled to discuss SUNY’s recent proposal to allow some of its charter schools to certify their own teachers, though that announcement drew criticism from State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa earlier this month.

Network for Public Education. Action Alert: Every Child Deserves a Well-Prepared Teacher

NYSED. ESSA July Draft  [Preparation, Recruitment, and Placement:  p. 140 ff.]

Politico. Excelsior effect: Application period for scholarship ends

NEW YORK CITY
EdWeek.A Fine Line on ‘Forced Placement’ of Teachers in New York City  Daniel Weisberg, the CEO of TNTP, a teacher training and advocacy group, and former NYC education department official, recently wrote in Time magazine, “Breaking that promise now would have only one possible result: Schools across the city would face an influx of teachers with records of poor performance.

Teachers College. Preparing and Supporting Teachers of Color: The relaunch of a program aimed at recruiting more teachers from underrepresented groups  The Office of Teacher Education at Teachers College has been awarded a five year TOC II grant by the New York State Education Department.

 

INTERNATIONAL
Hechinger Report. When it comes to teacher training, the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada

NYTimes. Spyware Sold to Mexican Government Targeted International Officials  The mystery began on Sept. 26, 2014, when about 100 students from a teachers’ college in the town of Ayotzinapa struck out to commandeer some buses. 

NZHerald. More than half of Auckland schools up to four teachers short  “I don’t know what the future holds but we’re potentially looking at babysitters in classrooms because we do not have the teachers to fill those vacancies.”

South China Morning Post. Hong Kong teachers oppose appointment of pro-Beijing educator as undersecretary  Cheng Kai-ming, emeritus professor of education at the University of Hong Kong, said it was “a very bad starting point” to pre-screen candidates for administrative positions for their political views…

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Federal Task Force Identifies Over 150 Ed. Regulations for Review; Comments Due Aug. 21
2) House Hearing Witnesses Stress Privacy Protections for Student Data While Ensuring Researchers Maintain Access

DeansForImpact. Showdown in Texas teacher preparation  Acting collectively, advocates for students and teachers stopped the legislation that would have weakened the quality of teachers entering Texas classrooms.

EdSurge. Does the Word ‘Teacher’ Still Describe What Educators Do in the Classroom?  “There is a thought that because people went to school, that they know what school is [and] how teachers should teach and how students [should] learn,” explains Fuhrman. “It is like having a housing secretary who lived in a house. It is not the preparation that you need. It is a great disservice to the knowledge base underlying education.” 

EdWeek.
1) Five Big Tasks for Betsy DeVos  One former state leader who was considering a post balked after seeing the president’s budget request, which would eliminate money for teacher training and slash career and technical education funding.
2) How Teacher Prep Programs Can Help Teachers Teach Math Conceptually
3) Like Trump Budget, House Funding Bill Strips Out $2 Billion for Teacher Training
4) Most Republicans Have Negative View of Higher Education, Poll Finds
5) Teachers Trained Through Fast-Track Program No Better or Worse Than Their Peers  TNTP, formerly The New Teacher Project, has trained and placed about 35,000 teachers in urban areas over nearly two decades… The teachers get on-the-job coaching and support throughout their first year.
6) Watch This Refresher on Trump’s Education Budget in Under 60 Seconds  How will Title II money for teacher training and after-school spending, which together amount to over $3 billion but which Trump wants to eliminate, fare in the House spending bill?

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Bill would allow gun education curricula in Wisconsin high schools  The bill also would require the classes to be taught by people who have proof of previous training in firearm safety.

NEA. As More Schools Look to Personalized Learning, Teaching May Be About to Change

NYTimes. DeVos’s Hard Line on New Education Law Surprises States  This feedback was widely criticized by academic groups, including the National Science Teachers Association, who said the department was interpreting the law too literally.

Raise Your Hand Texas. Foundation Launches $50 Million Raising Texas Teachers Program To Elevate Teaching Profession  …a program to provide $50 million over the next 10 years in scholarship funding for students committed to a career in teaching, and technical support for premier Texas teacher preparation programs. 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Some New York charter schools could soon be allowed to certify their own teachers. What could that look like?  But Dirck Roosevelt, a visiting associate professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, says professional success doesn’t always translate into the ability to lead a classroom.

cIcu. Summary of June 22 Independent Sector Schools of Education Mtg w/Regent Cashin & Deputy Commissioner John D’Agati [attached]

HuffPost. Politics And Campaign Dollars Shape New York Charter School Policies  Politicians and wealthy business leaders with ties to Cuomo are behind the push to exempt some of the state’s charter schools from hiring certified teachers.

Inside Higher Ed. Zimpher to lead center on education pipelines  Early on, the center will focus on efforts including the creation of a statewide education data system and a “train the trainer” certification program.

Money. 711 Best Colleges For Your Money  [77 IHEs in NYS, highest of 50 US states]

NPR. SUNY charter schools committee considers their own teacher certification  New York’s public schools are grappling with a teacher shortage which many blame on the stringent requirements to become certified in the state.

NYPost. New rules for who can teach are a big win for New York kids  Sadly, most education degrees are practically worthless: Teaching is an art best learned from a master on the job, not a science to be picked up by studying theory.

NYSED Regents. July meeting agenda

Politico. Hochman leaves as Cuomo’s deputy education secretary  Hochman [TC EdD. 1990], a former Westchester County school superintendent and longtime critic of the Common Core learning standards, was appointed to the position in October 2015.

SUNY Board of Trustees
1) Archived Meetings. Proposed Teacher Cert Regs Resolution
2) Proposed Regulations of the Charter Schools Committee

TimesUnion. NY teachers with 30 hours of experience? Charter school proposal stirs debate  The proposal, which would allow high-achieving charter schools to develop their own teacher certification requirements, was quietly floated in the last hours of the 2017 legislative session…

Univ. of Buffalo. UB’s virtual reality expertise creates simulated classroom environment for aspiring teachers  The virtual reality teaching environment created by Lamb and Etopio differs from other teaching simulation platforms in that actual footage of student behaviors occurring within real classrooms will be used…

NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street Sustainable Funding Project. ESSA and Quality Teacher Preparation

NYDaily News.
1) Corporate lawyer traded high-paying gig for calling to educate low-income NYC students  So Russell quit his corporate job and applied for training at Success Academy, the first step in eventually becoming a teacher …
2) Technology teacher offers every student chance at coding, computer science classes in Queens school  She cashed in her retirement savings and enrolled in graduate school, earning a master’s degree in education and a teaching certification.

NYTimes. De Blasio’s Concessions on Charter Schools Are Disclosed  Another potentially significant change for the charter sector came in the form of proposed rules, released last month, that would create different ways for teachers at certain charter schools to earn certification and start teaching before the process is complete.

 

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CPRE. Strategies for Strengthening the Technical Workforce: A Review of International Evidence  …UNESCO (2013) found that a main concern in the implementation of ICT in TVET was that teachers were often not prepared to use ICTs in teaching

New South Wales Teachers Federation. Commercialisation in Public Schooling  “Commercial producers have a place in the resource market for teachers but must never be considered as a substitute for quality teaching — this is what we are trained to do and we must remain the experts in this regard”.

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AACTE. New edTPA Resource for the 2017-2018 Program Year  Handbooks and Templates 2017-2018 – No changes, except for Classical Languages, Elementary Education, Elementary Literacy, Literacy Specialist, Special Education, and World Language. [login required]

Brookings Inst. Stemming the tide: Are public school districts keeping the best and brightest teachers?  If an English teacher has more peer teachers with more experience, advanced degrees, and professional certification, this English teacher is less likely to move to another school across town. 

CAEP. Board of Director appointments

Chalkbeat. Has the charter school movement gone awry? A new book says yes, and it’s causing a stir  …recommendations that include expanding the number and type of charter authorizers, ensuring charters are not bound by teacher certification rules, and reducing charter school regulations.

CT Mirror. Education Commissioner Wentzell: ‘Our English Learners Need More Support’  I am really proud that our education preparation institutions are doing a much better job with this.

Deans for Impact. Why mythbusting fails: A guide to influencing education with science  Experiment after experiment has shown that matching the form of instruction to a student’s preferred “style” of learning – such as auditory or visual – does not improve a student’s understanding. 

EdWeek.
1) ‘Course-Choice’ Efforts Grow to Give Students More Options  “No matter what Secretary DeVos does, the focus needs to be on investing in our public schools, especially in training and retaining good teachers and educating students of all abilities,”…
2) Program aims to help teachers stay in profession  The News Journal of Wilmington reports that the state is creating a new academy for high schoolers considering a career in education. 

NPR. 18 States Sue Betsy DeVos And Education Dept. Over Delay Of Borrower Defense Rule

NYTimes. DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective  Bridgepoint Education, a publicly traded for-profit college corporation, offers an online associate degree in early education through Ashford University that costs almost $34,000 in tuition, fees and supplies, most of which students finance with debt. Fewer than half of students finish on time, and the median graduate earns less than $16,000 per year. 

Stories from School. Educators Rising: Start ‘Em While They’re Young  Basically, Educators Rising works with secondary teachers to identify black, brown, and white young people–as young as 13– who have potential as future educators.

Wall Street Journal. Exclusive Test Data: Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills

Washington Post. What should students know about religion? New guidance on teaching it in public schools.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Some charter school teachers could become certified without a master’s under proposed new SUNY rules

InsideHigherEd. New State Aid, With Strings Attached  Private colleges in New York State criticized Governor Cuomo’s plan to give some of their students much more aid in return for limits on tuition increases and more money from institutions. 

NYSED. Statement from Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa, the Board of Regents & State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on SUNY Charter Proposal   …ensuring that strong and effective teachers with the proper training, experience and credentials are educating New York’s children in every public school – including charter schools. SUNY’s teacher certification proposal is cause for concern…

NYS United Teachers.
1) NYSUT blasts charter school industry’s attempt to bypass teaching standards  …regulations proposed by the charter school industry that would allow some charter networks to bypass state certification standards and set up their own training programs for teachers — meaning students in publicly funded charters could be taught by individuals with as little as 30 hours of classroom instruction.
2) Stop Backdoor Teacher Certification for SUNY-Authorized Charters!

Politico. Charters move closer to new teacher-certification rules, worrying education schools

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MotherJones. How Income Inequality Is Messing With Kids’ Brains  Dr. Kimberly Noble’s laboratory at Columbia University looks like your typical day care center—save for the team of cognitive neuroscientists observing kids from behind a large two-way mirror. The Neurocognition, Early Experience, and Development Lab…

Teachers College. Affirming Their Choice: Admitted Students Day at TC  “Whenever I worked in a school whose curriculum was inspired by TC, I loved it,” says Nassau, who will earn her master’s degree in the Department of Curriculum & Teaching, possibly with an additional focus on teaching art.

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EduInternational. Education International puts teachers’ needs at the centre of sustainable development  These include a system approach, a strong teaching profession, and a properly developed curriculum.

EqualTimes. As Liberia outsources its education, teachers’ rights are under siege

NYTimes.
1) Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World?  Kenya has many high-school-educated, unskilled workers who are looking for jobs, and initially, Bridge’s low-cost model depended on that labor pool for staffing schools. Instructors receive three to six weeks of training on pedagogy, classroom management and education technology.
2) Turkey Drops Evolution From Curriculum, Angering Secularists Removing evolution from the curriculum, Ms. Aydogan said, puts Turkey in the same league as ultraconservative Saudi Arabia, where the concept is briefly mentioned in the curriculum but strongly criticized.

StanfordScope. Learning to Teach in Practice: Finland’s Teacher Training Schools

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AACTE.  The Wisdom of Crowds: Collaborative Student Teaching Instrument Development

Cal State Univ. CSU’s teacher preparation program is the largest in the nation … prepares more of California’s P-12 teachers than all other institutions combined — and nearly 8 percent of the nation’s teachers

Center for American Progress. Learning Mindsets and Skills  Revamp teacher preparation and professional development programs using the new science on learning mindsets and skills. 

Chalkbeat. Year-long residencies for teachers are the hot new thing in teacher prep. But do they work?

EdWeek.
1) At One Houston School, Teaching Job Candidates Must ‘Escape the Interview’  … surely some prospective teachers would find this game a nightmare.
2) Chan-Zuckerberg to Push Ambitious New Vision for Personalized Learning  … even the best-funded improvement efforts are often stymied by institutional barriers to changing how teachers teach and children learn.
3) Dozens of Arizona Teachers Lack Bachelor’s Degrees
4) In Planning Lessons, Math Teachers Rely on What They Learned During Preservice
5) Mentors for New Teachers Found to Boost Student Achievement—by a Lot  A recent federal report that analyzed a cohort of 1,990 first-year teachers found that after five years, 86 percent of teachers who had first-year mentors were still teaching, compared with 71 percent without mentors.
6) Project-Based Learning’s Next Project: Understanding When It Works  Students whose teachers used the project-based-learning curriculum made gains that were 63 percent higher than their peers in the control group in social studies and 23 percent higher in informational reading.

Hechinger Report. TEACHER VOICE: What if instead of the voucher battle, we gave all of the nation’s children a top STEM education  Better-prepared students can learn more thoroughly by helping to bring their peers up to speed…

HuffPost.
1) Arizona’s Alt-Cert Law Replaces ‘Teachers’ With ‘Persons’ In Its Classrooms [A. Singer blog] Senate Bill 1042 signed into law in May by Republican Governor Doug Ducey permits “persons” with a college degree to bypass Arizona’s regular teacher certification process to obtain grades 6-12 teaching certificates.
2) United States History: What is Important to Know and Why? [A. Singer blog]  …as a teacher educator I always begin thinking about teaching with the same question. What is important to know and why

Inside Higher Ed. Report on Growth of Early Education Requirements  …examines the growth of college degree requirements for early childhood education workers.

The74. How Trump’s Budget Would Gut Innovations in Teacher Training — Just as Things Are Getting Better

NYTimes. How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms  Code.org … pushes for education policy changes, develops curriculums, offers online coding lessons and trains teachers…

Washington Post. Undergraduate education is broken. Solutions start with faculty and rigor.  Indeed, there is a growing separation between faculty who teach and faculty who research at too many colleges, especially large research universities…

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Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities. [cIcu]
1) Independent Sector Schools of Education meeting,  June 21 [ppt attached]
2) Legislative Priorities  Expand the Masters-in-Education Teacher Incentive Scholarship Program

NYSED, Office of Cultural Education. Classroom Resources

Politico NY. Charter sector secures win in Albany, clearing a path for deal on mayoral control  SUNY is now planning to create “an alternative teacher certification pathway to charter schools.”

SUNY Charter Schools Institute. Regulations To Be Proposed for Certification of Teachers in SUNY Authorized Charter Schools

NEW YORK CITY
AACTE. Wrapping Up the Spotlight on the St. John’s RISE Program  …the Residential Internship for St. John’s Educators (RISE) of St. John’s University has generated a strong sense of identity and mission among professors, interns, and PK-12 partners alike.

Chalkbeat. New York City’s racial disparities spill into gym class, according to new report  A 2015 report from the city comptroller’s office found … about one-third of schools did not have a full-time certified PE teacher… The city has also committed to adding 500 PE teachers by 2019…

NYDailyNews. Turnover, a charter school plague   For all but the Teach for America types who intend to log a few years and switch tracks, the union jobs are better jobs, where educators build careers.

NYTimes. Preaching the Value of Social Studies, in a Second Career  Adaptations of some of these units are available through the new online Success Academy Education Institute, where the network has posted its elementary school literacy curriculum.

Politico. After years of torment, de Blasio sees hope in mayoral-control deal That stand-off became slightly less heated last week, after charters won new regulations that created alternative paths to certification for charter teachers. The regulations help solve an existential problem for growing charter networks that have struggled to hire enough certified teachers…

Teachers College. Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Public Education …”it’s hard to find freedom of decision in classrooms” and thus to educate others to be free thinkers and citizens.

The74. Analysis: The Fierce Fight Over Mayoral Control Reflects De Blasio’s Weakness on Education  …more teacher preparation and time set aside for parents…    …Jeff Henig, professor of political science and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, believes political chest-pounding is not just forgivable; it can be necessary.

Village Voice. Integrating NYC Schools Will Take More Than A ‘Diversity Plan’  “The irony of mayoral control in my mind is that after centralizing standards, the curriculum, the assessments, what it left decentralized was student access to schools,” said Amy Stuart Wells, a professor of sociology and education at Columbia University’s Teachers College…

 

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AACTE. Internationalization Survey, Self-Reflection Tool Developed for Deans/Directors of Teacher Education  Have you ever wondered what it takes to develop a teacher education program that prepares teachers to teach for global competence?

NYTimes. ‘Our Phones Are Being Monitored’: How a Hacking Story Unfurled  Mr. Patrón went on to explain that he and two other lawyers on his staff at Centro Prodh, including the one representing the families of 43 students missing from a teachers college in Ayotzinapa, had been targeted by highly sophisticated spyware that could take over a cellphone…

TC NCSPE. Colombian Charter School Management  …teachers can begin to work in public schools (up to grade eight) with only a high school degree, though teaching in high school (grades 10 and 11) and beyond requires that the teacher has graduated from a teacher training or technical college or has obtained a bachelor’s degree.

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AACTE. Member-Exclusive Federal Update Webinars

AMLE. Annual Conference for Middle Level Education [Philadelphia, PA • November 6–8, 2017]

EdWeek.
1) Are Confederate-Statue Controversies Teachable Moments?  And while many curricula now reflect contemporary historiography about the war, the falsehood that it wasn’t primarily fought over slavery remains influential, even among some who set classroom standards.
2) Can These 11 States Make Their Teaching Forces More Diverse by 2040?  Saroja Warner, the director of educator preparation initiatives at CCSSO, said this work aligns with both CCSSO’s strategic plan and the Every Student Succeeds Act…
3) Leading School Accreditor Sees Expansion Opportunity Under ESSA  AdvancED…suite of new online classroom-observation tools, consultant services, and teacher and leadership training is independent of the nonprofit’s bread-and-butter work of awarding or withholding its seal of approval for 27,000 of the nation’s elementary, middle, and high schools.
4) The War on Teachers and the End of Public Education  I would argue that we have genuinely reached a tipping point, one where we’re struggling to get young people to go into teaching as professional career (as opposed to two-year adventure before law school). 

Hartford Business Journal. $4.8M for UHart, Montessori degree  …$4.8 million from the Walton Family Foundation to establish an undergraduate Montessori education degree by 2022.

Hechinger Report. TEACHER VOICE: “I realized that my education had occurred within a racist system that privileged Eurocentric achievements”

HuffPost. Florida Teachers take State Ed and Pearson to Court [Alan Singer blog] In 2010, as part of its application for a federal Race to the Top grant, Florida proposed making teacher certification exams more difficult, supposedly to raise standards.

Montanta State Univ. MSU Troops to Teachers regional program receives federal grant to reinstate services

Southern Regional Education Board.  Teacher Preparation Commission

The Atlantic. Can Scientists Help End the Teacher Shortage?: Technology and math professionals are leaving the laboratory to lead the classroom.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED. Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa and State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia Statement on End of Session Legislative Actions  Both Houses also passed legislation that will enable the Education Department to continue to serve as a national institutional accrediting agency… Enactment of this appropriation, sponsored by Senator LaValle and Assemblymember Glick, will allow the Department to continue to offer this service to colleges and universities in New York…

NEW YORK CITY
NYTimes. No Deal, Just Blame, on Mayoral Control of New York City Schools

Chalkbeat.
1) Chancellor Fariña on why losing mayoral control ‘would mean chaos, gridlock and corruption’  Under the old system, entire districts did not have well-trained teachers or necessary materials. This isn’t just speculation – again, I was there.
2) Do struggling schools in New York City’s Renewal turnaround program outperform those left out? A new analysis suggests no  The new findings come from Aaron Pallas, a Teachers College professor who conducted a review of test score and graduation rate data comparing Renewal schools with others that were similarly low-performing when the program started but did not get the extra resources.
3) Mayor Bill de Blasio has made many education promises. Here’s what he’s delivered so far — and what he hasn’t  We looked in depth at the school system’s organization, struggling schools left out of the city’s main improvement programs, and the state of teacher training under Fariña, who is passionate about it.

Politico. Mayoral ambitions on hold, Eva Moskowitz aims for national prominence  The Success Academy Education Institute, a vast online compendium of the network’s literacy curriculum, will function like a virtual teachers’ college.

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Education International. Increasing workloads taking a toll on Scottish teachers  … fewer than half of those surveyed would currently recommend teaching as a career choice – this is far worse than in our previous survey.

NEA. The Secret to High-Performing Nations’ Success? A Respected, Professionalized Teaching Force   “Strong teachers means strong education,” said A. Lin Goodwin of Columbia University who examined Singapore’s system. “And teachers need to stay in the system so that the system benefits from their wisdom.”

NYDailyNews.  Brooklyn teacher helps Chinese immigrant students overcome language barrier via cooking, film lessons  Dong graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and education from Shanxi University in 1985 and taught psychology at Xinjiang University, before obtaining her master’s in education from Beijing Normal University in 1999.

Total Croatia News. While Croatia Argues over Education, Finland Abolishes All School Subjects

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EdWeek.
1) A Teacher’s Viral Video Explains Why Teaching Is Tiring
2) Betsy DeVos Warns Charter Schools Against Becoming ‘The Man’  …  slash other programs that charters benefit from… $2.4 billion in money for teacher quality... but some teachers clearly weren’t convinced by her sales pitch.
3) Poor Students Face Digital Divide in How Teachers Learn to Use Tech  There’s widespread agreement that teachers aren’t coming out of college well-prepared to navigate this new digital environment.
4) Pro-Accountability Ed School Dean to Take on Bigger Role in Teacher-Accreditation Group  CAEP, has elected her [Gallager] to lead its board of directors…she expressed wariness of unregulated programs, saying ed. schools won’t hold themselves accountable for the teachers they prepare if they don’t have to. 

Hechinger Report. Good news: There is an answer to the shortage of black and brown teachers  The proportion of teachers who are female (predominately white) grew from 67 percent in 1980-81 to more than 76 percent in 2011-12, according to the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)…

NEA Today. Experts Discuss How to Find – and Keep – Teachers of Color  Margartia Bianco is a professor at the University of Denver and founder of Pathway2Teaching…The program encourages students to attend college and then return to their communities as culturally responsive teachers.

NYTimes.
1) Decades-Old Work-Study Program Faces Major Cuts Judith Scott-Clayton, associate professor of economics and education at Columbia University Teachers’ College, said work study has shown to have a positive effect on college persistence and completion, especially for low-income students…
2) Trump Will Allow ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S., Reversing Campaign Promise  … immigrants enrolled in the 2012 program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “will continue to be eligible” to renew every two years and notes that “no work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.”
3) To Understand Betsy DeVos’s Educational Views, View Her Education  Mr. Booy, a self-described “radical idealist,” … thought he could change the world after college by moving to a low-income neighborhood and becoming a public school teacher. 

NPR Ed. Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching?  A lot of our K-12 teachers didn’t come out of college with that depth of knowledge of the science they’re supposed to be teaching.

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NBC New York. Looming NY Teacher Shortage Showcases Urgent Need to Recruit New Ones: Union Traditionally, local SUNY colleges provided a steady pipeline of new teachers, but that’s no longer the case. At SUNY Potsdam, for example, the number of education majors dropped sharply from over 700 in 2010 to just about 200 in the fall of 2016. 

NYS Assembly.  A.3676 (Glick)/S.2487 (LaValle) passed both Chambers of the Legislature; now awaits Governors’ signature.  Amends section 210-a of the education law to provide that the graduate record examination (GRE) or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement will not apply to certified teachers and school administrators who already hold a graduate degree when applying for a graduate-level teacher program.

NYS Higher Ed Srvcs Corp. New Excelsior (public IHE ) and Enhanced Tuition (private IHE) award applications available with new regulations

NYSED Regents.
1) Proposed Amendment to Add a New Section 80-5.23 to the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education to Establish a Residency Certificate for Students Enrolled in a Classroom Academy Residency Pilot Program
2) NEW PERMANENT RULE: Proposed Amendments to Part 80 of the Commissioner’s Regulations Related to the Elimination of the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST) for Teacher Certification and to Remove Unnecessary References to the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST)
3) NEW PERMANENT RULE: Proposed Amendment to Section 80-1.5 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Establishment of a Multiple Measures Review Process for the edTPA
4) Appointments and Reappointments to the State Professional Standards and Practices Board 

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New School Center for New York City Affairs. What’s Needed for ‘3-K for All’ and Child Care Centers to Work and Play Well Together?   These disparities make it nearly impossible for some EarlyLearn centers to hold on to certified teachers, creating what the New York City Public Advocate’s office has described as a “troublesome hierarchy in which the teachers who work with the youngest and poorest children are paid the least.”

NYDailyNews
1) Eva Moskowitz’s urgent lessons   For years, New York City’s “balanced literacy” pedagogy encouraged teachers to base literacy lessons on reading and writing that reflected the lives of students. Success Academy’s version of balanced literacy mostly directs students’ attention not in the mirror, but out the window.
2) Success Academy boss Eva Moskowitz tells in video why the charter school is great  Moskowitz gave some details in a YouTube video showing a web-based menu of lesson plans and other material the network uses to teach reading.

NYTimes.
1) Ending the Curse of Remedial Math  And a group of New York City high school teachers are, in a pilot program, being trained in CUNY Start’s model of teaching.
2) For Children With Autism, No More Being Hushed  To devise it, she teamed up with Shirley Cohen, a professor of special education at Hunter College. (Nest teachers are required to take two graduate-level courses at Hunter focused on teaching children with autism.)

The74. Success Academy Launches Online ‘Education Institute’ to Share Curriculum, Professional Development  In the fall, the network plans to open a teacher-training facility at Hudson Yards in Manhattan with a lab school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.