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CBC. Ford government revokes seniority rule for Ontario teacher hiring   Some school boards have suggested the rule makes it harder for younger applicants straight out of their education degree to break into the system and constrains boards from diversifying the teaching workforce. 

Marino Institute of Education (Trinity College Dublin). Virtual International Winter School: Building your Professional Identity for the Classroom [2-13 November]

Teachers College. ‘A Crisis Within a Crisis’: TC’s Mary Mendenhall and Lena Verdeli address the pandemic’s impact on efforts to support refugee education and mental health   Mendenhall, Associate Professor of Practice in TC’s Department of International & Transcultural Studies, has spent years shaping new methods to prepare teachers who work with displaced populations. She lamented the pandemic’s impact on such efforts.

Voice of America News. Schools in Northern Cameroon Close as Boko Haram Steps Up Attacks  …some troops have also been deployed to teach displaced students in safer areas less susceptible to Boko Haram attacks.

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AACTE.
1)  2020 Teacher Quality Partnership Grantees Announced   The Department of Education has awarded 23 grants administered as a of part of a pool of funding created to benefit programs including the Teaching Quality Partnership Program (TQP).  Of the 10 grants awarded under Teacher Quality Partnerships program—totaling $7.3 million—six of the grantees are AACTE members.
2) Issue Brief: How Do Education Students Pay for College?  There is a growing body of research suggesting that concerns about compensation generally—and about being able to repay student loans in particular—are dissuading college students from entering teaching. 

Education Week. Are Aspiring Teachers Learning Classroom Management? It Varies   …the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington-based group that advocates for more rigorous teacher preparation, has found that just 14 percent of traditional teacher-preparation programs require candidates to demonstrate their ability in five research-based classroom management strategies… NCTQ scored 979 traditional teacher-prep programs and 40 alternative programs on their approaches to classroom management. The analysis found that a third of non-traditional programs required candidates to demonstrate their ability in all five strategies.

InsideHigherEd. Is It Time for All Students to Take Ethnic Studies?  With funding from the National Science Foundation, Goffney developed a rubric for assessing whether teachers are employing equitable teaching practices in their classrooms. She also developed a curriculum entitled Mathematical Knowledge for Equitable Teaching (MKET) that is used as the elementary mathematics methods course in the elementary teacher certification program focused on equity and justice.

Learning Policy Institute. Webinar—Closing California’s Opportunity Gap: Ensuring All Students Have Access to Fully-Prepared Teachers [10:30 am PT, Nov. 12]

NEA Today.
1) Local Union Steps Up Effort to Diversify Teaching Force: A grant from NEA’s EdSummer program supported a team of Connecticut educators working to recruit and retain more educators of color.  CEA has a number of initiatives to help diversify the teaching profession, including awarding scholarships to students of color pursuing teaching careers and building upon the Future Educators of Diversity Clubs across the state that encourage high school students to examine teaching as a profession.
2) ‘Why is Our Expertise Not Treated the Same?’: Depending on the state, educators make between 2% and 33% less than other comparable college-educated workers.   The erosion of educator pay over the years coupled with the marginalization of the profession has led to an alarming teacher shortage, Pringle said. “Overall, fewer people are entering the profession and more are leaving”.

New York Times. After the Pandemic, a Revolution in Education and Work Awaits.  …the Industrial Revolution produced a world in which there were sharp distinctions between employers and employees, between educators and employers and between governments and employers and educators, “but now you’re going to see a blurring of all these lines.”.. The most critical role for K-12 educators, therefore, will be to equip young people with the curiosity and passion to be lifelong learners who feel ownership over their education.

U.S. Dept. of Education. 2020 Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Recipients.  To improve student achievement; improve the quality of new and prospective teachers by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities for new teachers; hold teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) accountable for preparing highly qualified teachers; and recruit highly qualified individuals, including minorities and individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.

Washington Post.
1) D.C. middle and high school employees asked to staff elementary classrooms in reopening plans   Seven thousand of these students would receive in-person instruction from teachers. The remaining 14,000 students would participate in virtual learning from their classrooms under the supervision of an adult who is not a teacher. The school system is calling these “CARE classrooms.”
2) Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?  In a report published in May, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended districts eliminate tracking in middle school math.

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AACTE. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Teacher Residency Pilot at the College of Staten Island   In Summer 2019, CSI welcomed the first cohort of residents into a pilot Teacher Residency program hosted at PS 45 in Staten Island. The pilot program was the outgrowth of longstanding conversations between CSI and its P-12 partners about how to create deeper, more meaningful clinical experiences for aspiring teachers that could also serve real needs inside public schools…

NYSED Board of Regents. October meeting.
Board of Regents Acts on Sixth Series of Emergency Regulations to Ease Burdens on Educators, Students and Professionals in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Emergency Regulations Part VI and Further Regulatory Flexibility for the Reopening of Schools

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Education Week. Lucy Calkins Says Balanced Literacy Needs ‘Rebalancing’   Early reading teachers and researchers are reacting with surprise, frustration, and optimism after the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, the organization that designs one of the most popular reading programs in the country, outlined a new approach to teaching children how to read. 

Teachers College. Education for the Times: Alumnus Nick Stone Is Part of a Corps of Teachers Creating Nationwide Curricula   “The New York Times and Washington Post are basically my textbooks,” says Stone, a Social Studies teacher at Millennium High School in Lower Manhattan… Stone, who earned his TC degree in Social Studies Education, acknowledges that young people for the most part do not use the sources that sustained their parents and grandparents: newspapers, magazines and network news broadcasts.

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CNA [Singapore]. More support for early childhood educators, outdoor learning to be enhanced: ECDA   … organising peer sharing session for educators to share experiences in conducting outdoor learning, as well as advanced training courses for educators and trainers who attended training sessions in outdoor learning in 2019.

Education Business (UK). DfE cuts and cancels some teacher training bursaries. The government has cut some teacher training bursaries as well as scrapping others altogether, it has been revealed in new guidance on initial teacher training funding for the 2021-22 academic year.

Florida State University News. USAID-Florida State University partnership set to boost teacher training systems in Zambia.  Over the five-year period, the “USAID Transforming Teacher Education Program” will give more than 60 Zambian teacher educators the skills to deliver effective instruction to 9,000 college and university students studying to become primary grade teachers.

GMA News Online. PRC exec: ‘Open enrollment’ behind low LET passing rate among teachers; CHED disagrees   The lack of strict admission rules for aspiring teachers is one of the reasons behind the low passing rate among education graduates who take the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) in the Philippines, an official from the Professional Regulation Commission on Monday. During a Senate committee on basic education hearing on quality of teacher education and training, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian asked why only an average of 30% and 48% of elementary and secondary education graduates who take the LET have passed in recent years.

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AACTE.
1) Issue Brief Explores Financial Challenges Facing Future Teachers   The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) released today its latest issue brief, How Do Education Students Pay for College? The report provides colleges of education a closer look at the financial pressures impacting education students..
2) Registration open. 73^rd Annual meeting: Resisting Hate, Restoring Hope: Engaging in Courageous Action [Virtual Conf. Feb. 24-26, 2021]
3) Strengthening Teacher Preparation: Transforming Clinical Practice   Back in 2015, a group of department chairs, administrative leadership, program directors and faculty at Jackson State University formed a task force to write a plan for transforming our teacher preparation program. In that plan, we identified areas of strength and areas we needed to improve.

Chalkbeat. How do you create a more diverse teacher force? Hire your own graduates, Chicago says.   The district is partnering with City Colleges of Chicago and Illinois State University to offer scholarships, financial and career counseling, and eventually preferential hiring to district graduates… The program will also encourage more men to become teachers. My Brother’s Keeper, created by former President Barack Obama to address racial disparities facing young men of color, also will partner with the district.

Education Week.
1) To Root Out Racism in Schools, Start With Who You Hire.  Brooks-DeCosta’s [TC EdD ‘17] doctoral leadership program at Teachers College focused on anti-racist leadership, and part of it required her to write a racial autobiography identifying the first time she became racially aware or the first time she became aware of her race, who she is, and how she identified…
2) Yes, Teachers Are Still Being Evaluated. Many Say It’s Unfair   … the Illinois Education Association and the Illinois Federation of Teachers issued a joint statement along with state administrators’ associations warning that “teachers are not primarily trained to provide remote instruction and qualified evaluators are not trained to evaluate remote instruction.” Districts should focus on evaluations on “formative feedback and support” instead of summative ratings, the groups said. 

Hechinger Report.
1) Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class   “I have gone to a lot of conferences about educational diversity that were held during the weekday during the school year,” said Amy Stuart Wells, professor of education at Teachers College… “There were no teachers at these conferences. There was a lot of talk about moving kids around. There were a lot of recommendations thrown out there. But when it came to how they’d really work, the attitude was, ‘Let’s let the teachers worry about it.’ ”
2) Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked: Is it even possible to make a concept that has racist origins more equitable?   And testing only students whose teachers or parents are aware of the program and request it; few teachers get trained in gifted education, so their recommendations are often based on stereotypes… 
3) Why we need a new generation of special education teachers   To ameliorate shortages, districts and programs may depend on teachers who have been certified in alternative ways, via fast-tracked models, or rely on part-timers. This means that teachers step into the classroom with less preparation. 

InsideHigherEd. Graduate Enrollment Grew in 2019   Other fields with year-over-year increases in first-time graduate enrollment include engineering (+5 percent), health sciences (+3.5 percent)… and education (+0.4 percent).

Learning Policy Institute. Sharpening the Divide: How California’s Teacher Shortages Expand Inequality.  Analysis of statewide teacher supply and demand factors indicates that there are three main factors driving shortages in California: the decline in teacher preparation enrollments, increased demand for teachers, and teacher attrition and turnover. However, the relative weight of supply and demand factors can vary from district to district.

New York Times. School Is (Whisper It) a Form of Child Care: And child care, at its best, fosters children’s development. So how did we come to treat them so differently?   In the 1800s, school was transformed state by state from a few weeks of instruction by a teenage girl in a one-room house into a system of formal classrooms with grades and professional teachers.

University Business. Navigating the COVID-19 maze.  Teachers have needed to adapt their pedagogy for online instruction. States have been necessitated to implement flexible licensure requirements. And EPPs have been asked to provide innovative solutions that ensure teacher candidates are qualified to meet state licensure and certification requirements.

USNews. Amid Shortage, WVa College Students Can Substitute Teach   West Virginia education officials will let college seniors who are studying to become educators apply for immediate substitute teaching jobs in public schools due to a critical shortage.

Washington Post.
1) How ‘good’ parenting can make for ‘bad’ democracy   Resource availability for highly qualified teachers, engaging curriculums and suitable facilities are a function of the school-financing schemes states adopt… Administrators and teachers can be taught how to create school environments that minimize marginalizing student experiences on account of race.
2) In new memoir, the father of ‘multiple intelligences’ explains how he conceived his famous theory – and why he exhausted family and friends  The theory became highly popular with K-12 educators — though is now often misunderstood as wrongly equating “multiple intelligences” with the concept of different “learning styles.” Gardner never said that, though debunkers of his theory have claimed he did.
3) School reading classes still in a slump without more social studies   “Social studies has long been neglected in American primary school,” the authors say. “Elementary teachers are often taught that students should ‘first learn to read, so they can read to learn,’ even though youngsters can learn a lot about the world before they can decode.” 

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LOHUD. For new teacher, 21, remote learning means connecting with students she hasn’t met   Zepeda, who grew up in New Rochelle and graduated from New Rochelle High School in 2016, was hired by the district last year for a one-year spot at Isaac Young Middle School… She stayed close to home for college, graduating from the College of New Rochelle in only three years… Maria Gomez, a guidance counselor at New Rochelle High School who was Zepeda’s counselor, said Zepeda was “laser focused” on math and later on becoming a teacher.

NYSATE/NYACTE. Discussion with NYSED Leaders. The New York State Association of Teacher Educators and the New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education are pleased to host a discussion and question and answer session with New York State Education Department Leaders [Wed. Oct. 21 4pm]

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Urban Teacher Residency at the American Museum of Natural History   “We wanted to create a program that addressed the shortage of middle and high school Earth Science teachers and embodied AMNH’s mission of research, education, and the dissemination of knowledge about the natural world,” says Maritza MacDonald [TC EdD ‘95], senior director of education and policy emeritus… The result was the American Museum of Natural History Richard Gilder Graduate School’s Earth Science Residency Program—the only museum-based residency model for teacher preparation in the world.

Teachers College.
1) Beyond the Grid: The Untold Story of Harlem’s Fight for Quality Education   …the number of teachers of color in Harlem rose sharply from 1972 on — particularly in District 5 schools. White and Rogers attribute that increase to several factors, including the de facto segregating of black teachers to black neighborhoods, the emergence of alternate routes to teaching, the development of new models of school governance, and “curricular and pedagogical priorities tied to accountability and market-based competition charter schools.” There are positives and negatives to each of these trends, but, the authors conclude, “one outcome that has remained elusive through these years is the development of a stable, diverse, cadre of teachers who are well-prepared to teach District 5 students.”
2) Paul D. Coverdell Fellows 35th Anniversary Video  On January 20, 1985, the Peace Corps Director, Lorette Miller Ruppe signed an agreement establishing the first Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program at Teachers College, Columbia University. The TC Peace Corps Fellows Program was the first Fellows USA (now Coverdell Program).
3) The Roads Not Taken? There aren’t many for aspiring researcher, administrator and teacher Catherine Cheng Stahl   She volunteered as an aide teaching reading to third- and fourth-graders, and it felt so right that she stayed on at Wellesley for a fifth year, taking additional education classes before leaving to teach biology and chemistry at a rural Connecticut high school.

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All Africa. Africa: Teachers Shoulder the Burden – Improving Support in Crisis Contexts  [co-authored by TC Assoc. Prof. M. Mendenhall]  To respond to teachers’ needs, our organizations, Education Cannot Wait and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) have forged a new partnership to build a toolkit that focuses on teacher well-being, particularly in emergency settings – a resource that will be developed in collaboration with teachers…Enable teachers to support all learners by continuously investing in and dramatically improving the nature and quality of teacher preparation, continuous professional development, and sustained support.

University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education. Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education (ALiTE) International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship and Knowledge Exchange. Lecture by Prof. M. Cochran-Smith, Boston College: Global Trends and Challenges in Teacher Education and The Place of Teacher Inquiry [via Zoom, Oct. 15 6pm HK SAR]

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AACTE.  Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs   Even teacher prep programs that are offered via online courses don’t necessarily instruct teacher candidates how to educate students remotely, says Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

Artesia Daily Press. New Mexico offers scholarships for advanced teacher training   New Mexico offers scholarships for advanced teacher training.  State officials say they’re making funds available to mid-level public school teachers to cover the cost of continuing education certifications that can lead to a significant salary increase.

Chalkbeat. Harper Lee’s love letter to teaching” Before ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Lee wrote about why people become educators.  She never taught, but her first job when she moved to New York City from a small town in Alabama involved editing an education trade magazine… Lee was writing up a survey of some 57 people who all answered the question: “Why did you enter the teaching profession?” … Some were inspired by memories of teachers who had changed their lives, others by a love of children and young people. Some felt a patriotic calling to help educate good citizens, including a young veteran of World War II. In another sign of the times, some had taken aptitude and interests tests that suggested they would be good at teaching.

Colorado Sun. Colorado’s substitute teacher shortage, worsened by coronavirus, could force some schools to close. Again.: Districts are finding creative ways to fill the gap, leaning on their own teachers, administrators and even parents to sub   Subs who have a bachelor’s degree and are licensed teachers or have a substitute teaching license receive $100 per day, and subs who have a high school diploma and their substitute teaching license are paid $90 per day.

Council on the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).  Public Comment Page.   The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to the CAEP Standards for Educator Preparation. The CAEP Board of Directors received recommendations from a task force charged with reviewing the standards and has approved a public comment period through November 2,2020.   

EdWeek.
1) Gates Foundation Unveils Grants to Make Algebra More Culturally Relevant   In Seattle last year, the school district created a new framework designed to “rehumanize” math… The move received acclaim from some educators and scholars of mathematics education, but also faced pushback from conservative commentators. 
2) How to Make Science Class Relevant During the Pandemic.  … fewer than half of all science teachers surveyed in Horizon Research’s “2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education” report responded that they feel “very well prepared” to encourage students’ interest in science and/or engineering. Among elementary teachers, that figure is just 26 percent.

National Education Association. How Did an NEA Member Get $103,000 in Student Debt Erased? With the help of NEA, music teacher Sean Ichiro Manes [TC MA, ’01 EdM ‘04] navigated federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a program that needs improving.

NYTimes.
1) Making Remote Schooling a Family Affair: Parents are more crucial then ever to their children’s education. Here are two programs, thousands of miles apart, that have helped get them involved. [OpEd by T. Rosenberg] When Covid-19 hit, Springboard ramped up. The group trained 3,000 incoming Teach for America members. Freed from geographical constraints, Springboard went from working in 62 schools to 667. 
2) Resources for Teachers.
3) What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in 2020 America.  In 2018, the starting salary for a public-school teacher averaged $38,000. In more than 1,000 districts, even the highest paid public-school teachers with advanced degrees and decades of experience earn less than $50,000. 

SFGate. Top teacher hopes more equitable system follows pandemic   John Arthur, Utah’s Teacher of the Year…credits his teachers for taking a personal interest in him and supporting him after his grandmother, who lived with his family, died…After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Utah, Arthur worked as a substitute teacher and discovered his passion for working with children. He returned to college to earn a masters degrees in elementary education and special education from Westminster College.

Washington Post.
1) Former D.C. Public Schools chancellor: Black cultural education ‘could change the entire calculus’ for children   Q: much of your prior work—DCPS, New Teacher Project, Teach for America, Chan Zuckerberg—focused on improving schools, education systems A: Well I think this is a systemic play I’m making now… the content we’re developing is as important for non-African Americans to learn as it is for African Americans. 
2) It’s been a week for Trump conspiracy theories. Here’s how to teach students to identify them — and more news literacy lessons.
3) Pandemic teaching, in their words   As crazy as this sounds, I feel like I can relate to my students more than I ever have in my entire career. I’m learning with them. I’m growing with them.

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AACTE. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Early Childhood Urban Education Initiative at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education.  One of Bank Street’s newest programs—the Early Childhood Urban Education Initiative—helps uncredentialed early childhood educators in under-resourced New York City neighborhoods complete their certification and earn master’s degrees while remaining employed in their existing early childhood classrooms.

New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE). Sharing Educational Goals In These Challenging Times. [Oct. 7 4pm Via Zoom]

NYSED. Memo: Extension of Distance Education Flexibility for the Spring 2021 Semester NYS Education Department guidance for NYS Colleges and Universities related to distance education and the Spring 2021 semester.

Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching (PSPB). Meeting Minutes May 2020

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Teachers College.
1) A New Vision for American Education: A book co-authored by TC’s Sonya Douglass Horsford wins a Critics’ Choice Book Award. It analyzes policies long in the making and charts a new future for school leadership.  They trace how market-driven approaches to education reform have ensured that “teachers, administrators, and students will be more mobile, leading to less stability and a weakening of professional expertise and organizational capacity.” They demonstrate that “a new generation of teachers and administrators is being socialized into a very different workplace with a different conception of teaching and leading.” And they lament a diminished faith in public education and the government’s ability to administer it..
2) On World Teachers Day, A Call to Recognize and Support Those Working in Emergency Conditions.  Mendenhall has been one of the world’s driving forces in refugee education. During the past several years, as part of INEE’s Teachers in Crisis Contexts Collaborative, she has spearheaded Teachers for Teachers, a research-based teacher professional development initiative operating in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, that delivers teacher training, coaching, and mobile mentoring. 
3) Teaching Residents @ Teachers College. October 2020 I TR@TC Induction Newsletter
4) Walking the Curriculum Walk: For Jacqueline Simmons, Online Course Design is a Standing Invitation to Rewrite the Script   I’m always interested in helping students expand upon the ways they view curricula — whether that’s in education, pop culture or public spaces. This course is designed to do so in a digital format, yet prepare students to teach these concepts in the classroom.

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Daily News. Reinventing the concept of teacher education. What is the teacher development policy in Sri Lanka?… There is an ongoing debate in many parts of the world including European countries whether teacher education must be done by universities or professionals with the expertise in the field of education. Those who argue for the notion that it must be handled by the universities argue that teacher development is more academic and therefore it must be undertaken by the universities whereas others point out that it is the professional teachers in the field who can produce better teachers.

Phys,org. Research concludes that remote learning might not be a bad thing.  Remote and blended approaches to teacher education can be as effective as face-to-face approaches concludes a new study from the University of Birmingham. The new report by Dr. Thomas Perry from the University of Birmingham’s School of Education highlights how in March 2020 many teacher educators were forced to expand their remote learning provision and, in some cases, get to grips with remote teacher education for the first time.

UNESCO.
1) Survey of teachers in pre-primary education (STEPP): lessons from the implementation of the pilot study and field trial of international survey instruments.  Good teacher training and support, recognition and working conditions are proven to have positive impact on their capacity, motivation and practice with young children, and therefore constitute a critical policy issue (UNESCO, 2006; OECD, 2006). As a fundamental condition for guaranteeing quality education (UNESCO, 2016), increasing the supply of qualified teachers at all levels has been designated as one of ten global education targets (SDG target 4.c).
2) Towards inclusion in education: status, trends and challenges: the UNESCO Salamanca Statement 25 years on. Drawing on international research and on good practice related to equity and inclusion in education systems, the guide was developed with the advice and support of a group of international experts, including policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, teacher educators, curriculum developers and representatives of various international agencies.
3) Training manual on gender mainstreaming in teacher education in Myanmar.  The manual is designed for the education policy makers and  planners for their better understanding in gender issues and assess how they affects gender inequality in teacher education and trainers.

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Education Next. The Rise of Dual Credit: More and more students take college classes while still in high school. That is boosting degree attainment but also raising doubts about rigor.    For dual credit to continue to grow, and thrive, states and schools will need to find ways to train more teachers… They’ll also need to tackle the persistent racial, socioeconomic and geographic gaps that undermine the programs’ goals. Simply expanding the programs, without confronting the causes of those gaps, “could actually exacerbate them,” warned John Fink, a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center.

Education Week.
1) Before We Can Have Anti-Racist Classrooms, Teacher Preparation Needs an Overhaul.   I almost quit my teacher-preparation program midway through after observing a lesson in African American history taught by a young white educator in a Philadelphia high school…I was angry—and inspired to become what Bettina Love, a professor at the University of Georgia, calls an “abolitionist teacher.” Abolitionist teaching, Love says, is steeped in community organizing and informed by critical race theory—the understanding that race is a social construct used by white people for their own political and financial gain. 
2) How to Thwart ‘Zoombombing’ in the Remote Classroom: 10 Tips
3) Teachers Can Take on Anti-Racist Teaching. But Not Alone   “If [teachers] do not have a level of consciousness, they’re not going to talk about race because they don’t think it belongs” in the classroom, Sealey-Ruiz said. “Deciding we’re not talking about issues that impact millions of children . . . it’s unfair to the teachers and to the students who they’re teaching.”

NewsStar. Grambling State’s education department recruits Black men to teaching profession.  Grambling State University’s Black Male Teacher Initiative has joined forces with Clemson University’s nationally known Call Me MiSTER® program to aid in the recruiting and development of more Black men into the teaching profession.

WalletHub. 2020’s Best & Worst States for Teachers   Education jobs are among the lowest-paying occupations requiring a bachelor’s degree…

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EdPrepMatters. Clinically Rich Programs in New York: Western New York Teacher Residency at Canisius College Rich.  In the fall of 2018, Canisius College developed the Western New York Teacher Residency Program (WNYTR).  The two-year, graduate level program is designed to prepare skilled teachers who are committed to teaching in Buffalo schools, especially schools with high poverty rates and few resources.

NYSATE/NYACTE.  Webinar: Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz of Teachers College, Columbia University will share anti-racist teaching and teacher education pedagogies [Thursday, October 1^st 4pm].

NYSED. Statement of Interim Commissioner of Education & President of the University of the State of New York, Betty A. Rosa Assembly Committee on Higher Education & Assembly Subcommittee on Tuition Assistance Program   …the Teacher Opportunity Corps or TOC II program aims to increase the pipeline of individuals from historically underrepresented and economically disadvantaged populations who seek out teaching careers. This program also bolsters the retention of highly qualified individuals who value equity and reflect the diversity both inside and outside of our classrooms. TOC II serves approximately 550 undergraduate and graduate students through 16 colleges and universities who have partnered with more than 50 districts and/or schools.

NYSED Office of Curriculum and Instruction. Curriculum Bridge.  To help educators best prepare their students for the 2020-2021 school year, we have created documents listing all the Common Core Learning Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics.

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Chalkbeat.
1) How a staffing crunch months in the making threw NYC’s school reopening plans into chaos    De Blasio pledged Thursday to fill staffing gaps by deploying 4,500 educators — including education department staffers with teaching licenses, substitutes, adjunct professors, and aspiring teachers pursuing education degrees. That number will only get the city through its first phase of reopening, said Mark Cannizzaro, president of the CSA.
2) NYC’s next ‘gargantuan’ school reopening task: hire thousands of new teachers in little over a week.  Starting in August, Education Department officials touted a developing partnership with CUNY to recruit out-of-work adjuncts and graduating education students to fill vacant DOE positions… Mulgrew said only teachers with valid K-12 teaching licenses would be considered for city schools… One reliable teacher hiring pipeline, the New York City Teaching Fellows program — which trains and places nearly 500 new public school teachers each year — axed most of its 2020 class in May amid the city hiring freeze.

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Hindustan Times. A blueprint for teacher recruitment and training   The real impact on teacher training through the National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement/Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching could be carried on in these tough times as teachers were able to modify their lesson plans to conduct classes through digital means — such as Google Meet, Zoom, mobile phone, television, or radio broadcast.

ICET/MESH International Symposium. Teacher Experience and Practices in the time of Covid-19 [8th October 3pm London time; Thursday 15th October 2pm Tokyo time]

Tes [The Times Educational Supplement].
1) Ofsted: All initial teacher training ‘good’ or better  Figures for 2019-20 show all Ofsted teacher training inspections resulted in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ judgements for the first time
2) Should Rosenshine really be teachers’ definitive guide?   The renowned researcher’s 10 principles have permeated education, from teacher training courses to SLT observations. But although they have come to be seen as the definitive framework for “good teaching”, their context and evidence base are poorly understood…

The Straits Times [Singapore]. More avenues for progression and training for teachers in special education schools.   To get more practical experience, new Sped teachers will also go through a contract teaching stint that will last from six to 12 months, before undergoing a diploma course in special education (DISE) at NIE. Currently, there is no such practice stint for Sped teachers.

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Chronicle. Martin Smith, an assistant professor of practice and director of the Secondary Teacher Preparation Program at Duke University, has been named dean of academic affairs at the university’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

EdPrepLab. Blog: Educator Preparation During COVID-19: Lessons Learned for Fall.  Depending on the context, candidates continue to work with cooperating teachers, supporting lesson planning and implementation. They’re also taking on new roles such as working with small groups of students through remote settings, bringing knowledge of technology to bear in supporting virtual instruction, and making unique contributions even as they are learning and adapting to the new environment.

EdPrepMatters. Online Teaching Curricula in Ed Prep.  If teacher candidates only experience one course with technology, and it is compartmentalized, then they are not being trained to use technology in context. With the recent challenges of online teaching during the pandemic, many educator preparation programs are now re-evaluating their curricula to integrate technology across the entire program, including courses on online teaching.

Hechinger Report. When schools reopen, we may not have enough teachers: Large numbers of teachers fear returning to the classroom, traditional solutions for filling vacancies are falling short and the pink slips on the horizon may lead to teacher shortages the likes of whi  …many protested that high barriers for entering teacher preparation programs made it harder for states to recruit and train new teachers — especially people of color who are more likely to have graduated from high schools that did not offer challenging opportunities like advanced placement courses, or even have enough certified teachers for the classroom. The lack of strong instruction can derail candidates later as they try to pass exams required for entry to certain teacher prep programs.

NYTimes.
1) A Teacher and Congresswoman Confronts School Reopenings: Representative Jahana Hayes, a former National Teacher of the Year, says that she has many concerns — and that parents need to make their voices heard.   …being an educator is a profession and people train a lifetime to do this, that you have to work hard and practice to get good at it and teaching remotely is a very different skill set.
2) Teaching Resources for Middle School Using The New York Times   Activities and lessons that can be employed by English, social studies, math and science educators, using Times photos, illustrations, graphs, videos, podcasts and articles.
3) The New York Times is available to high school students and teachers across the United States — free.  Free digital access continues through September 1, 2021.

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NYSED Office of Higher Education. August Newsletter
*New USED Grant Program
*NYSTCE Tests Becoming Operational
*Fingerprinting for International Applicants
*edTPA Webinars
*Transitional B, Transitional C, And Internship Certificate Information

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Chalkbeat. NYC’s reopening plans leave behind students who aren’t fluent in English, educators say.  In normal times, English learners receive extra support, depending on their needs, from co-teachers certified to teach English as a new language. These teachers also pull some children out of the classroom to give them extra language support individually or in small groups, but that seems to run counter to city health guidance, which says students should stay in their classrooms as much as possible… The department has offered no clear instructions on how schools without enough certified teachers will provide these services for the students who are fully remote.

New York Times. After 90 Years, Columbia Takes Slave Owner’s Name Off a Dorm: Samuel Bard was George Washington’s doctor and delivered Alexander Hamilton’s first son. He was also a “pretty significant slave owner.”   The move was the second one in recent weeks involving a Columbia-affiliated school shedding a name over racist or other offensive ideas and actions. Teachers College at Columbia University, which has its own board of trustees, voted in July to remove the name of Edward L. Thorndike, who promoted eugenics and sexist and anti-Semitic ideas, from a building there.

Teaching Residents @ Teachers College. Induction and Beyond September 2020 I Beginning of School Year Newsletter