Tag: Teaching Residencies

GLOBAL
BBC News. Coronavirus: ‘Teacher training application rise’ during lockdown   In recent years numbers training to become secondary school teachers in Wales have fallen, with some schools struggling to fill posts. But figures from the higher education admissions service Ucas show numbers applying increased during the pandemic.

Content Duniya. NEP-2020: A needed change in 21st century Education System of India
*A new National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education, NCFTE 2021, will be formulated by the NCTE in consultation with NCERT.
*By 2030, the minimum degree qualification for teaching will be a 4-year integrated B.Ed. degree. Stringent action will be taken against substandard stand-alone Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs).

 

UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat.
1) Education department grants buoy remote instruction, even as Trump and DeVos push for campuses to reopen   The funds appear to be predominantly going to support remote instruction, including through virtual programs, teacher training, and technology access.
2) Indiana back-to-school teacher training: First, how are you?   Connor O’Day, who student taught in Wayne Township last spring during his final semester of college, will teach completely online this fall. He said he feels comfortable with the assignment now that he’s familiar with the district’s online system…. In addition to coordinating with his fellow sixth grade teachers, O’Day is seeking advice from people with experience teaching online.
3) I’m a teacher who survived COVID-19. I’m not ready to return to the classroom.   But it’s important to remember that our training as teachers focuses on providing students with an education, not all of the other roles we’ve taken on over the years. We are not child care workers or health care workers. The service we are trained to offer can and should be provided remotely until it is safe to enter school buildings.

EdWeek
1) Bitmoji Classrooms: Why Teachers Are Buzzing About Them
2) Map: Where Are Schools Open?

InsideHigherEd. New International Students Barred From All-Online Classes  New U.S. immigration guidance clarifies that new international students — unlike continuing international students — cannot come to American colleges to take a “100 percent” online course load this fall.

NYTimes.
1) $25,000 Pod Schools: How Well-to-Do Children Will Weather the Pandemic   But as part of its fee, the Hudson Lab School will help with the paperwork, mediate parent interaction with the teacher, and align pod curriculums to state standards.
2) More Than 6,300 Coronavirus Cases Have Been Linked to U.S. Colleges

Univ. of Washington, College of Ed. Geneva Gay: A legacy of elevating multicultural education to prominence   This July, Gay will retire following a 29-year career at the University of Washington College of Education in which her internationally-recognized scholarship has advanced the field in profound ways — while making clear the essential role of multicultural education in an increasingly diverse and interconnected world…“Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice,” [pub. TC Press]…now in its third edition, includes examples of culturally diverse curriculum content, programs and techniques that exemplify culturally responsive teaching, and an emphasis on positive, action-driven possibilities in student-teacher relationships.

 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. State’s interim education commissioner resigns, latest in string of departures   But on Friday, after this was story published, department spokesperson Emily DeSantis said the Regents’ search will now continue through at least Oct. 1, citing “paramount tasks ahead.” …The board will hold an executive session — a closed-door meeting — on July 31 to discuss “personnel matters,” DeSantis said, but she did not immediately say whether Regents would discuss Tahoe’s temporary replacement or the search for a permanent commissioner.

NYSED.
New York Schools Awarded Nearly $20 Million In Critical Federal Funding To Address Covid-19 Crisis   This will provide more than 190,000 teachers and educational leaders across this State with a combined 450,000 hours of professional support to implement effective practices in remote/hybrid teaching and learning which, in turn, will reach an estimated two million students. 

 

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Most teaching will remain virtual this fall. Is NYC working fast enough to improve it?   To help handle students who will be learning remotely, city officials are planning to deploy teachers who are granted medical accommodations to work from home, as well as administrators across the system who have teaching licenses but are not currently working in schools.

Teachers College.
1) A Call for Reality Pedagogy: In The Atlantic, TC’s Christopher Emdin urges teachers to learn from students and embrace the chaos of the world beyond the classroom   …“the best teachers use their pedagogy as protest” to “disrupt teaching norms that harm vulnerable students.” They also view students as “co-teachers” who “can see what teachers have been trained to ignore.”
2) A Grant Getter Who Can Mentor Others: Carol Scheffner Hammer is TC’s first Vice Dean for Research   … boosting our track record of winning large, multimillion grants, not just among big centers like CCRC [Community College Research Center] and TR@TC [a federally funded residency program, now in its third five-year iteration, that prepares highly qualified teachers to teach in New York City public schools]

GLOBAL
Equitable Education Conference 2020. The International Conference on Equitable Education: All for Education  [10-11 July 2020]

Forum for Africa Women Educationists (FAWE). Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference on Girls’ Education in Africa[deadline 24 July]

GhanaWeb. Flashback: We never took anybody’s allowance, we even fed trainee teachers for free – Opoku-Agyemang   Former Education Minister Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has denied withdrawing the allowances of trainee teachers and nurses during her tenure… She said apart from “replacing” the allowance with the student loan access so as to increase enrolment into the colleges of education, the government ensured that the trainee teachers were fed for free.

RNZ. Principals want foreign teachers exempted from border restrictions   Foreign-trained teachers have been a key part of official efforts to relieve the shortage and last year nearly 1000 overseas teachers gained visas to work in New Zealand… We’ve compiled much better data now about a number of qualified and registered teachers we have in New Zealand, the number we think we’re going to need in future years and the numbers coming out of training.”

Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Dene pilot project aims to spark language among young speakers   … the school hires eight graduates from the Dene Teacher Education Program… In 2016, Statistics Canada reported 13,005 people spoke Dene, about 70 per cent of whom lived in Saskatchewan.

 

UNITED STATES
EdSurge. SEL Skills Are More Vital Than Ever. Here’s How to Choose the Right Tools.   Most of today’s teachers are in a similar situation; SEL was not an explicit part of their school experience. The research backs this up: explicit teacher education is often crucial to the success of new SEL programs. 

Forbes. Here’s What The Next School Year Will Look Like At U.S. Colleges   Fall policy. Columbia University has not announced a university-wide learning plan, but individual colleges have recently begun publicizing their approaches. The school’s teacher-training institution, Teachers College, for instance, will operate primarily online.

InsideHigherEd. Central Carolina Community College is starting an associate of science and an associate of arts in teacher education.

New America. Mississippi’s Multifaceted Approach to Tackling Teacher Shortages.  Mississippi stands out for taking a creative approach to addressing critical shortages by piloting three initiatives: Grow Your Own programs to develop local teachers, a state-run teacher residency program, and a pilot program exploring the possibility for teachers to earn a license based on their performance.

NYTimes. Over 100 Lesson Plans Based on New York Times Articles

The Atlantic. Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought: Americans found out the hard way that education is essential infrastructure. …inviting idle recent college graduates to sign on as teaching assistants—might sound easy on paper; in reality, the regulations meant to ensure that adults in classrooms are appropriately trained and vetted to work with children are also impediments to making rapid personnel moves in a crisis.

University of Connecticut. Centering Justice and Anti-Racism in Teacher Education  Monday, July 13, 4-5 pm EST, a virtual panel discussion on anti-racist teacher education scholarship and practice [incl. TC Prof. M. Souto-Manning]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). COVID-19 and Fall 2020   Students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States. The U.S. Department of State will not issue visas to students enrolled in schools and/or programs that are fully online for the fall semester nor will U.S. Customs and Border Protection permit these students to enter the United States. Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status or potentially face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.

Washington Post.
1) International students must take classes in person to stay in the country legally this fall, ICE announces   “Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status,” the announcement said. “If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings. ”
2) Just how little U.S. students learn about African American history — and five steps to start to change that [by L. T. Fenwick and C. Akua]    5. Work to revise teacher preparation programs to include coursework in African and African American history.
3) Why calls to ‘reinvent schooling’ in response to the pandemic are wrong [by D. Willingham & B. Riley]  … data suggests educators are unfamiliar with most principles of cognitive science. Recently, we tested more than 1,000 teachers-in-training and found that fewer than half could identify these principles, and when they knew them, they often couldn’t say how they applied in classrooms. 

 

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Board of Regents. July 13 Meeting Agenda.  Please note: In response to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the July Meeting will be held by video conference, which will be live-streamed. 

 

NEW YORK CITY
ArtNet News. New York City’s 2021 Budget Slashes Already Modest Funding for Public-School Arts Education by 70 Percent   Just six years ago, the city comptroller issued a comprehensive report about the shortcomings of art education in New York City schools. New York State Education Law requires students in grades seven through 12 to receive core arts instruction from certified teachers, but the report found that many schools do not meet this requirement—especially in lower income neighborhoods.

Chalkbeat. NYC may overhaul how one-third of its high schools are supervised, upsetting some principals   The schools are supported by deep relationships with nonprofit or university partners, such as New Visions, Outward Bound, Urban Assembly and CUNY, giving the schools the ability to collaborate on curriculum, teacher training, and share best practices.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer. Strong Schools for All: A Plan Forward for New York City   Work with existing teacher training programs to expand in-classroom experience for teacher candidates. Many current graduate programs already place student teachers in classrooms to gain practical experience. These programs could be adjusted to extend the length of time student teachers are working in classrooms. Teaching residency programs – where aspiring teachers are placed in classrooms for a full year prior to being certified – should be immediately expanded.

NYTimes. New York City’s Biggest Decision: How to Safely Reopen Schools: The plan now emerging could have an enormous impact because the local economy may not fully recover until working parents can send children to school.   … any Department of Education employee with a teaching certificate, even members of the central office staff, should prepare to teach in-person or remotely come September.

Patch. Here’s How Reopened NYC Schools Could Look: Safely reopening New York City schools means requiring students and teachers to wear masks, smaller classes and staggered schedules.   Hiring more teachers and school staff to maintain quality of education. This could be accomplished by creating a hiring pipeline with CUNY, working with educational non-profits and reassigning DOE employees in central offices to schools.

 

GLOBAL
International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET). Call for Nominations to the ICET Board of Directors

Microsoft News. Iran’s Sa’adi Foundation runs virtual course on Persian language teacher training   Sa’adi Foundation said the virtual training course is aimed at promoting the Persian language, supporting the Persian language centers across the world, enhancing the quality of Persian language teaching and facilitating teachers and enthusiasts’ access to such course.

The Educator Australia. Teacher taskforce to tackle education challenges   New data released by UNESCO’s Teacher Task Force shows that 9.1 million teachers across the world who have been impacted by coronavirus school closures (out of 63 million affected teachers in total) are untrained.

 

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE Survey Captures Members’ Coronavirus Experience and Response
Field Placements and Licensure 
*Most states have waived clinical requirements, but almost 40% of respondents report that their state has not adjusted its assessment policy.
*Numerous respondents cited access to tests required for licensure as a significant challenge.
*Nearly half of respondents indicated that field placements have been discontinued for at least some of their students.
*Uncertainties regarding field placements for the fall was a significant concern of respondents.
*Simulation is not yet a widespread option for students whose placements have been cancelled; one-third of respondents offer it….
2) Finding the Best Approximations of Practice in the Era of COVID-19: Video Analysis and FAVSTE  [authors incl. TC Sr. Lect. J. Riccio]  A group of science teacher educators from across the country has been using the ATLAS library as our main video case resource and the Framework for Analyzing Video in Science Teacher Education (FAVSTE) as our tool for maximizing the learning from these cases.
3) Moving Educator Preparation Forward During the Pandemic   To address clinical practice challenges, AACTE is collaborating with Mursion, a provider of experiential learning through simulations. The virtual reality technology offers access to field-tested classroom simulations, which provide evidence-based results for improving skills essential to working with human development. 

AACTE/SCALE. edTPA Assessment Materials for the 2020-21 Program Year Now Available   SCALE is pleased to announce that the edTPA assessment materials for the 2020-21 program year are now available in the edTPA Resource Library. The materials are available for faculty preview in advance of the upcoming program year. 

Atlanta Journal Constitution. Professor says Educators’ Teacher Performance Assessment hasn’t proven valuable or effective   One major hurdle in Georgia which prospective teachers face is the Georgia Professional Standards Commission’s requirement that all teacher candidates complete the edTPA… Now the coronavirus has prompted the PSC to consider removing the edTPA as a program completion and certification requirement effective July 1, 2020.

Chalkbeat.
1) Proposal to revamp Tennessee reading instruction halted amid economic crisis and legislative power struggle   It means the state won’t begin a systematic training this year of current and future teachers on reading instruction that is rooted in phonics.
2) Up next in Colorado’s bid to help struggling readers: New training for thousands of teachers   Officials have also cracked down on teacher preparation programs to ensure their literacy courses adhere to state standards. And starting next year, the state will require schools to use reading curriculum backed by science in kindergarten through third grade.

Chronicle. What Does Trauma-Informed Teaching Look Like?   While face-to-face teaching will heighten some stressors, learning remotely will also remain a challenge for many students, teaching experts note. So these same suggestions can apply to teaching online in the fall.

EdSource. Governor suspends California teacher testing requirements for candidates impacted by coronavirus closures   The order allows eligible teacher candidates to earn preliminary credentials without taking either the California Teaching Performance Assessment or the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment. It also allows students to enter teacher preparation programs without passing the California Basic Education Skills Test and teacher candidates to enter internship programs without passing required tests in the California Subject Examinations for Teachers because testing centers were closed. 

EdWeek. 15 Classroom Resources for Discussing Racism, Policing, and Protest

Hechinger Report.
1) Coronavirus is making it easier to become a teacher in a state with severe shortage of educators   Enrollment in the state’s teacher prep programs, Mississippi’s main pipeline for new teachers, could swell thanks to the new rule freezing gateway tests for teacher recruits.
2) Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to “microcredentials”: Americans seek educations that take months, not years, to help them find new jobs fast     Teachers used to need to finish master’s degrees to get that bump in pay… By comparison, workers who finish a certificate make up to a comparatively modest $2,960 a year more, on average, than those with a high school diploma, according to the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Mursion. TeachForward, Massachusetts Case Studies and Classroom Simulation on Introducing Content to Upper Elementary[recording of June 2nd webinar]

NYTimes.
1) Live Webinar: Teaching With Graphs From The New York Times   Join us on June 11 as The Learning Network explores how to teach and learn with the award-winning graphics from The New York Times.
2) Teaching Ideas and Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the George Floyd Protests

Teaching Tolerance. What White Colleagues Need to Understand: White supremacy doesn’t stop at the teachers’ lounge door.

U.S. Federal Register. Applications for New Awards; Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program [Deadline for Notice of Intent June 17]

Washington Post.
1) ‘Teaching for Black Lives’ — a handbook to fight America’s ferocious racism in (virtual or face-to-face) classrooms
2) Trump stands with DeVos, vetoes measure to overturn her controversial student loan forgiveness rule   President Trump on Friday vetoed a bipartisan resolution to overturn a policy that makes it tougher for students who say they were defrauded by colleges to have their federal education loans canceled.

 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Who should lead the reopening of schools in New York? The governor’s office and the Board of Regents both want the job   Cuomo then doubled down on education. In his next move, he announced a special panel to “reimagine” education and virtual schooling for the future… it does not include students, parents or any educators from New York City, the state and nation’s largest district — again angering city teachers and even the mayor’s office.

New York State Education Department Board of Regents. Meeting Agenda for June 8, 2020   [Virtual Meeting Live-Stream 9:15 am – 12: 45 pm]

New York State Education Department Interim Commissioner. State Education Department Appoints Dr. William Johnson as Monitor for the Hempstead Union Free School District   Dr. Johnson holds a Ed. D. [TC ‘51] and an M. Ed. from Columbia University… [Ed.D. Dissertation: “Russia’s Educational Heritage; Teacher Education In The Russian Empire, 1600-1917”]

New York State Education Department Office of Higher Education. May 2020 Educator Preparation Newsletter
*Guidance for Educator Preparation Programs In Response To COVID-19
*Emergency Covid-19 Certificate Information for Candidates
*New York State Teacher Certification Examinations (NYSTCE) Tests Becoming Operational

New York State Education Department Office of Teaching Initiatives.  Full Refunds and Replacement Vouchers for Candidates Who are Eligible for the edTPA Safety Net   The following information is for candidates who are eligible for the edTPA safety net, now plan to take the ATS-W in lieu of the edTPA, and either 1) are seeking a full refund of their edTPA registration, or 2) hold or have used an edTPA voucher.

Times Union. SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson to resign   State University of New York Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson plans to leave her job for a role at Ohio State University… She is leaving in the wake of a global health crisis and during a period of financial uncertainty for SUNY’s 64 campuses. In March, the COVID-19 pandemic forced SUNY buildings to close and Johnson oversaw a system-wide transition to remote learning.

 

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Here’s how to help young readers, according to literacy experts from the new TV show ‘Let’s Learn NYC!’   Chalkbeat spoke with Fletcher and one of the show’s stars, Anna Scretching-Cole [TC EdM ‘11], a literacy coach at P.S. 11 in the Bronx, for tips on how to help emerging readers stay on track during a critical time for their learning… Given the array of approaches to reading instruction in each of New York City’s schools, Fletcher says the show takes an “agnostic” approach when it comes to curriculum, focusing on where kids should be and providing opportunities for review. 

Teaching Residents at Teachers College. June 2020 End of School Year Newsletter: Induction and Beyond
*Raising Consciousness
*Upcoming Events and Professional Learning
*Curriculum Resources
*Teacher Wellness

GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe. ATEE Webinar 15 May, 4 PM CET – Online Teacher Education, Good Practices And Challenges [register by 13 May]

International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030. April Newsletter

Journal of Education for Teaching. CFP Special Issue Teacher Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic: a Global Snapshot [intention to submit by 15, May 2020]

UNESCO. How a young teacher is making gender equality a reality in Ethiopia   Tigist participated in a training about gender-responsive pedagogy (GRP) as part of a UNESCO project in Ethiopia. The training built teachers’ capacity to establish teaching and learning processes that encourage equal participation and involvement of boys and girls, and take into account boys’ and girls’ specific interests, learning styles and needs.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Beware the Solution That Is Not About the Problem: Reflections on Education and the COVID-19 Shock   Kline offers the post-Katrina charterization of New Orleans schools as a case in point… All of the teachers were fired. A teacher workforce that had been predominately black was replaced with one that was predominately white, young, and barely trained. 
2) Revolutionizing Education AACTE DEI Video: Promoting Equal Access to Quality Teachers   In celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 4-8, AACTE spotlights “Promoting Equal Access to Quality Teachers,” as the next segment in its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion video series

Education News. Correcting Carter’s Mistake: Removing Cabinet Status from the U.S. Department of Education   At the turn of the century, the nation’s largest teachers’ union began advocating for a federal agency in order to train teachers and improve literacy rates.

Education Week. Map: Coronavirus and School Closures

Hechinger Report. The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline   Summit’s summer training is full of evangelists for the platform — teachers, like Villegas, who have become “fellows” to help train their colleagues around the country on the model, and administrators who are back for the second or third year with new teachers. They share impressive results.

Mursion. May 5^th webinar Recording: Let’s test drive classroom simulations: Introducing Content for Upper Elementary

NJ.com. Fewer people are studying to become teachers in N.J. Could higher pay, appreciation reverse the trend?   Researchers attribute those losses to an onslaught of issues. They include low pay in comparison to other college graduates, benefits changes, high costs to become a teacher and several statewide policy changes that both added barriers to receiving a certification and made the job more difficult.

U.S. News. Missouri Teachers Virtually Educate Students About Pandemic   Pat Friedrichsen, a professor of science education at MU, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help create a coronavirus curriculum aimed at informing Missouri high schoolers the science of the pandemic and its effects on everyday life.

Washington Post.
1) Navient reaches settlement in teachers’ loan forgiveness lawsuit   Ten educators, backed by the American Federation of Teachers union, accused Navient of misleading them about Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The program encourages people to work in the public sector with the promise of canceling the balance of their federal student debt after a decade of payments.
2) The profound civics lesson kids are getting from the U.S. government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic   The coronavirus pandemic lays bare two major weaknesses in traditional approaches to teaching civics and history — what students are expected to learn and how we measure that learning. 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Cuomo taps Gates Foundation to ‘reimagine’ what schooling looks like in NY   While praising educators for their work over the past seven weeks, he also said schools are still working to get computers and tablets to students, and that some teachers lacked the right training in the technology they would use to teach students at home.

NYS Board of Regents invites applications & nominations for Commissioner of Education & President of the University of the State of New York. The search is being assisted by ABG Search. Applications & nominations should be received by June 8, 2020.

New York State Education Department Office of Teaching Initiatives.
1) Emergency COVID-19 Certificate   Candidates who are seeking certain certificates and extensions that require exam(s) may be eligible for the Emergency COVID-19 certificate, allowing them to work in New York State public schools or districts for one year while taking and passing the required exam(s) for the certificate or extension sought.
2) Extension of Certain Certificates Expiring on August 31, 2020   …educators who hold an Initial certificate, Initial Reissuance, Provisional certificate, or Provisional Renewal with an expiration date of August 31, 2020 will have the expiration date extended to January 31, 2021 in order to provide them with the time needed to complete the requirements for the next level certificate.
3) edTPA Safety Net for Candidates Who Are Enrolled in a New York State Registered Educator Preparation Program During the COVID-19 Crisis in the Spring 2020 and/or Summer 2020 Terms   …take the ATS-W appropriate for the certificate title sought (Elementary or Secondary). Candidates seeking an “All Grades” certificate could take either the Elementary or Secondary ATS-W.
4) Acceptance of “Pass” Grades, or its Equivalent, in the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification During the Spring, Summer, or Fall 2020 Terms  …the Department will allow any undergraduate or graduate level content core or pedagogical core course, completed during the Spring, Summer, or Fall 2020 terms with a “pass” grade, or its equivalent, to count towards the content core or pedagogical core semester hour requirements for certification through the Individual Evaluation pathway.

New York State Education Department Office Of Higher Education.  Educator Preparation April Newsletter
Guidance For Educator Preparation Programs In Response To Covid-19
Board Of Regents Items
Graduation Measures Regional Meetings

NEW YORK CITY
Teaching Residents at Teachers College.
1) MAY 2020 Spring Edition Newsletter
2) Updated Production Report, 2012-2020  19 peer-reviewed publications, 57 global conference presentations and counting!

 

GLOBAL
Education International. COVID-19 tracker   As governments worldwide step up to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, educators and their unions are doing their part to support each other, their students and their communities.

The Guardian. Don’t ‘celebrate’ gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row   Now Moffat is enjoying his new role at the Excelsior trust, and already this year has visited 12 schools to train them and delivered 16 conference speeches and workshops, plus teacher training at universities.

UNESCO. Teacher Task Force calls to support 63 million teachers touched by the COVID-19 crisis   Others are dealing with the stress of delivering quality learning with tools for which they have received little or no training or support… Such support is particularly urgent in some of the world’s poorest countries, which are already struggling to meet education needs because of critical shortages of trained teachers.

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) AACTE Adjusts Events in Response to COVID-19   AACTE has made the decision to move its  June meetings to later in the year.
2) Third Federal Stimulus Package: Education Provisions   … the measure modifies the Teacher Loan Forgiveness program to permit that during a qualifying emergency the interrupted service is considered consecutive as long as the individual resumes teaching and completes the 5 year requirement. (This program requires 5 consecutive years of service to be eligible for loan forgiveness.)

Chalkbeat. Why do so many Colorado students struggle to read? Flawed curriculum is part of the problem.   While the state has recently cracked down on how teacher preparation programs cover reading and will soon require current teachers to prove they’ve completed training on reading instruction, it remains to be seen how vigorously the state will use its new authority over curriculum.

Education Week.
1) The K-12 Educator’s Guide to Safe and Effective Videoconferencing
2) What Happens to Student-Teachers Now? A Guide for Teachers   School closures have sidelined many promising student-teachers, leaving mentor teachers to figure out distance learning on their own. Although these policy decisions might be causing you some ambivalence about how to proceed with your student-teacher, you might be his only lifeline as the details of social isolation get sorted out.

Hechinger Report. Her daycare center was already on the brink — then coronavirus struck: The child care system is failing the very workers it relies on. And it’s about to get worse.   Even with at least a bachelor’s degree, wages for early childhood teachers are extremely low. The mean annual salary for an early childhood educator with a degree working with children from birth to age 3 is only $27,248. 

InsideHigherEd.
1) Education Department Releases Stimulus Distribution List  The department said the $6.28 billion for emergency aid is available today.
2) How Much Stimulus Will Your College Receive?: A searchable chart of how much each college can expect to receive.

OPEID	College or University	Total Allocation ($)	Minimum for Emergency Grants to Students ($)
00397900	Teachers College, Columbia	1,118,534	559,267.00

LPI. Preparing Educators for Deeper Learning and Equity During COVID-19  [Webinar 3pm April 23]

NYDaily News. Online learning: crisis and opportunity [By E. Feistritzer, founder and CEO of TEACH-NOW Graduate School of Education, D.C.]   No student graduates from my teacher education program without learning about virtual instruction and how to be a resource-rich problem-solver, regardless of the venue they are teaching in. I have found that when teachers start using the internet as a primary resource, it changes the way that they teach not just online, but in their classrooms. 

Pearson Education. Guidance for Candidates Impacted by School Closures  With many educator preparation programs (EPPs) and P–12 school districts impacted by COVID-19, the following guidance is provided to programs and teacher candidates in need of options for successfully preparing and submitting an edTPA portfolio.

Southern Regional Education Board. State Policy Flexibilities In Response To COVID-19: Avoid Failing the Next Cohort of New Teachers

NEW YORK STATE
NYSATE/NYACTE. Extended Call for Proposals for Fall 2020 Conference  The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended to May 1st, 2020. [Saratoga Springs, NY October 14-16, 2020]

NYSED. Board of Regents Acts on Series of Emergency Regulations to Ease the Burdens on Educators, Students and Professionals in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic  Higher Education: The Department amends the Commissioner’s regulations to:

• permit the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) training to be conducted entirely online during the time period of the State of emergency declared by the Governor pursuant to an Executive Order for the COVID-19 crisis;
• create an edTPA safety net for candidates in registered educator preparation programs whose student teaching or similar clinical experience in spring 2020 was impacted by COVID-19;
• extend the Statement of Continued Eligibility (SOCE) application deadline for special education teachers who teach a special class in grades 7-12 from June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021; and
• extend the time period by which full-time, acceptable teaching experience must be completed for the SOCE or limited extension from June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021.

Politico New York. State Ed Hires Search Firm for Next Commissioner   The State Education Department has enlisted headhunter firm AGB Search to help find its next permanent leader…

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. NYC forbids schools from using Zoom for remote learning due to privacy and security concerns   Department officials did not answer questions about whether Zoom could be used for purposes that don’t involve students, such as teacher training, or how much money is being spent to transition to Microsoft Teams.

QNS. NYC colleges offer competitive teaching programs in large job market   In addition to their coursework, student teaching and examination prep, education students must complete the certification program, where a recommendation from a university’s certification officer can make a difference. Most schools will not automatically recommend students, so students seeking an education degree may want to contact their university’s officer to ensure they get their recommendation

Teaching Residents at Teachers College. April 2020, Spring Edition Newsletter

GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe.  2020 Spring Conference, 20-22 May, Florence, Italy. Postponed.

Parenting and Education in Ireland. UNESCO Mobilizes Education Ministers in COVID-19 Crisis   UNESCO’s expertise in open and distance learning spans teacher training platforms, the design of e-learning school models, online communities of practice and the development of national ICT in education policies…

Times Educational Supplement (tes).  Coronavirus: New teachers will qualify despite shutdown   Education secretary Gavin Williamson confirmed that trainee teachers who miss out on their full complement of school training hours because of school closures will still qualify as teachers.

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Education Funding and HEA Reauthorization in Play on Capitol Hill   Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the Senate HELP Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the HELP Committee, have issued somewhat dueling statements about the likelihood of a long-awaited bipartisan deal on a Higher Education Act reauthorization bill…

Chalkbeat. Literacy bill on the move in Tennessee Legislature, minus the phrase ‘science of reading’   Currently, the state has 44 teacher training programs, but no common requirements when it comes to literacy instruction. That’s going to stop, said Mike Krause, executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. 

CT Mirror. Would we evaluate a lawyer or doctor from a three-minute video clip?   On Friday, March 6, the Education Committee held a hearing on House Bill 5376, a bill that proposes the elimination of edTPA as a requirement for teacher certification.

Education Week.
1) National Education Policy Center, Deans’ Group Take Aim at the ‘Reading Wars’   “The overall body of high quality research in the teaching of early reading counsels us to make sure that our teachers have a complete toolbox, and are professionally prepared to use that full toolbox because different students have different needs,” said Kevin G. Welner, the director of NEPC, in an interview with Education Week. “The rejection of this idea of balanced literacy is potentially dangerous if we are removing tools from that toolbox.”
2) Teachers Share Resources for Teaching Online During Coronavirus School Closures

First STEP, Fulton County Schools (GA). On a Mission to Help Student-Teachers Thrive—and Stay in the Profession [new YouTube video]

Forbes. Learning In The Time Of COVID-19 [by L. Darling-Hammond]  Among these resources are many targeted to social and emotional learning as well as content learning, to English learners and to students with disabilities, to teachers who are learning new on-line pedagogies, and to parents who are learning to support their children’s education at home.

Hechinger Report. Ready or not, a new era of homeschooling has begun   In addition, most schools and teachers are unprepared to take their lessons online, and the education they can offer over the internet, on the fly, could be rough and wildly uneven.

National Education Policy Center and Education Deans for Justice and Equity. Policy Statement on the “Science of Reading” This “balanced literacy” approach, which stresses the importance of phonics and of authentic reading – and which stresses the importance of teachers who are professionally prepared to teach reading using a full toolbox of instructional approaches and understandings – is now strongly supported in the scholarly community and is grounded in a large research base.

NYTimes.
1) Coronavirus Resource Page for Students
2) Teachers Deserve More Respect [OpEd]  President Trump and his education secretary, Betsy DeVos… have also fought to eliminate civil rights protections in schools; to cut funding to reduce class size, teacher training and support; to make it easier for students to get away with sexual assault and harassment; and to put guns in schools…. 

NCEE. NCEE Statement on Passage of the Blueprint For Maryland’s Future by the Maryland Legislature  It raises the pay of teachers and requires them to meet higher standards to become educators. It establishes careers in teaching and makes advancement in those careers contingent on a teachers’ [sic] skills.

Washington Post.
1) Senate Democrats propose bailout for student loan borrowers   The Democrats are calling for at least $10,000 in tax-free debt cancellation for all federal student loan borrowers. They want the Education Department to assume loan payments for the duration of the national emergency and then institute a three-month grace period during which borrowers can forgo their payments without penalty. Payments made by the department would still count toward loan forgiveness for borrowers in public service jobs.
2) Trump suspends interest on all federal student loans to ease financial impact of coronavirus   Suspending payments, she said, could have been disruptive for people working toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a federal program that cancels the remaining balance of a borrower’s debt after 120 on-time monthly payments. 

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Schools to close across New York state, governor says

NYSED.
1) NYSED Coronavirus Guidance Colleges and Universities Professional licensure or certification clinical experience courses must meet regulatory requirements. If present emergency circumstances create challenges associated with meeting clinical experience requirements, institutions should contact NYSED concerning appropriate alternatives to meet requirements, such as clinical simulation options.
2) The public comment period is open: proposed regulatory amendments to revise the composition of the Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching, including adding practicing, certified administrators to the Board & increasing membership to 30

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. NYC schools to close Monday for at least 4 weeks amid coronavirus pandemic

GLOBAL
International Council on Education for Teaching  Due to the coronavirus epidemic we are postponing the ICET2020 World Assembly at Bath Spa University. Subject to confirmation, we are hoping to host the conference on the equivalent dates next year – the ICET Board Meeting on Monday 21st June, 2021 and the World Assembly on Tuesday-Thursday 22-24 June, 2021. 

UNESCO.
1) Distance learning solutions
2) With one in five learners kept out of school, UNESCO mobilizes education ministers to face the COVID-19 crisis   UNESCO’s expertise in open and distance learning spans teacher training platforms, the design of e-learning school models, online communities of practice and the development of national ICT in education policies, with a priority focus on Africa.

UNITED STATES
AACTE/SCALE. edTPA COVID-19 State Outreach and Support    … candidates may submit edTPA portfolios within 18 months from their registration dates for both initial submissions and retakes… As necessary, Pearson will extend registrations for candidates impacted by COVID-19 without any change fee.  

American Educational Research Association. AERA 2020 ANNUAL MEETING FACT SHEET  In the coming weeks, AERA will provide detailed information on the AERA website about the virtual meeting.

EdWeek. 
1) Map: Coronavirus and School Closures
2) Culturally Responsive Teaching Is Promising. But There’s a Pressing Need for More Research   Many teachers feel uncomfortable discussing ethnicity and social equity, and many do not themselves have deep knowledge of nondominant political and cultural histories.
3) Future Teachers Are Unfamiliar With Basic ‘Learning Science,’ Report Finds  Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact.
4) Teaching About Coronavirus: 3 Lesson Plans for Science, Math, and Media Literacy
5) What Happens to Student Teachers When Schools and Colleges Close Due to Coronavirus?   Teacher-preparation programs in 18 states are required to use the edTPA, which is administered by Pearson. In a statement, Pearson spokesman Scott Overland said edTPA registrations are valid for 18 months, and candidates can submit their portfolios for both initial submissions and retakes at any point during that time. 

George Mason University. Mason heads effort to recruit more teachers for the visually impaired and blind   … few U.S. colleges offer programs that prepare teachers to educate students who are visually impaired, according to Kimberly Avila, professor-in-charge of the teacher preparation program in blindness and vision impairment within the College of Education and Human Development.

Inside Higher Education. So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online

The Verge. The Smithsonian has released more than 2.8 million images you can use for free   Included are images from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo

Ukiah Daily Journal. California K-12 schools prepare for coronavirus-related closures   “I think it would be a mistake for school districts, including PAUSD, to prematurely commit to online instruction for all students,” said Palo Alto Unified superintendent Don Austin. “I would be concerned about teacher training, student access to connectivity and devices…

WFAE. UNC Charlotte Changes How It Trains Student Teachers   Real-time coaching is part of a national trend – some schools call it “bug in the ear coaching,” referring to an earpiece that can be used to relay messages from the veteran teacher to the rookie. McIntyre is a member of Deans For Impact, a Texas-based coalition of almost two dozen university officials trying to improve teacher preparation.

WTOK. Teacher licensure bill clears Mississippi Senate   Senate Bill 2511 would allow college students to enter a School of Education if they have achieved a 21 ACT score, 3.0 grade point average on pre-major coursework, or a passing score on the Praxis Core, the test traditionally used in teacher certification programs.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Coronavirus live updates: CUNY and SUNY move to remote learning   Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state and city university systems  — SUNY and CUNY — would begin a “distance learning model” on March 19 — following the footsteps of several other universities across the country.

NYSED. Guidance for Colleges and Universities on Addressing the Needs of Students Impacted by the Coronavirus   Professional licensure or certification clinical experience courses must meet regulatory requirements. If present emergency circumstances create challenges associated with meeting clinical experience requirements, institutions should contact NYSED concerning appropriate alternatives to meet requirements, such as clinical simulation options.

NEW YORK CITY
Bklyner. A New School Focused On Raising Global, Urban Citizens To Open In Brooklyn   … in terms of the non-Chinese faculty, we’re looking particularly for people with training and experience with Reggio Emilia. Reggio is a very important prerequisite, and experiential learning is a very big part of our program even as early as preschool. 

Chalkbeat. NYC reluctantly readies for online learning if the coronavirus forces school closures    “It’s going to be highly contextual. It might be really difficult to say, ‘Everyone is going to do this one thing.’ It might be more like a buffet,” said Detra Price-Dennis, an associate professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, who is focused on digital learning and digital literacy in K-8 classrooms.

Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC). March 2020|Winter Edition Newsletter.  Raising Consciousness, Induction Spotlight, Teacher Grant Resources…

GLOBAL
India Education Diary.
1) Chile teacher training programme brings green science to life in indigenous regions   A teaching programme in one of the poorest and most densely populated rural regions of Chile is leveraging indigenous knowledge to use science and education for sustainable development (ESD) to improve lives.
2) IIM Kashipur launches an Innovative 2-week Madrasa Teacher Training programme    In tandem with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision for the development of Muslim youths to hold the Quran in one hand and computer in other, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur launched an innovative two-week Madrasa Teacher Training Programme today. 

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
1) How can education systems better understand teachers’ well-being?   … governments need to support teachers in meeting these new demands, from integrating new technologies and developing new teaching practices, to managing increasingly diverse classrooms. This is even more true in a world where teaching as a career is losing its appeal and teacher shortages are common. 
2) Initial Teacher Preparation (Itp)  Study  Promoting policies and practices for a stronger teaching profession – from initial teacher education to the first years of teaching

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Call for Proposals, Reviewers for 2021 AACTE Annual Meeting: “Resisting Hate, Restoring Hope: Engaging in Courageous Actions”

Chalkbeat.
1) Colorado State Board calls for more teacher training on reading, not less   Some board members raised concerns about that change, noting that inadequate college classes on reading instruction have contributed to low reading proficiency rates and shouldn’t get a pass on the front end of the process.
2) Dyslexia just got its first mention in Michigan law. Will it make a difference for struggling readers?   What’s more, teacher training programs in Michigan, like others across the country, aren’t doing enough to prepare educators to work with struggling readers, including dyslexic students. Only three out of 24 teacher prep programs statewide received an “A” rating for early literacy from the National Council on Teacher Quality, while eight were rated “F.”

Education Week.
1) 9 Things Educators Need to Know About Coronavirus
2) Teacher-Candidates Get a Safe Space to Air Touchy Issues of Identity   …there’s a lot of value in meeting with others who have a shared experience, Emdin said. Teachers College’s Reimagining Education Summer Institute, which is an annual conference for classroom teachers focused on integrated schools, has the opportunity for attendees to participate in affinity groups
3) Teachers in These States Have to Pass a Rigorous Test on ‘Science of Reading‘   Which 19 states, you ask? The list is here, in a newly updated database built by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The NCTQ has been monitoring state policies on teacher preparation for many years.
4) When Teaching Media Literacy, Which News Sources Are Credible? Even Teachers Don’t Agree   The findings suggest a few different things. First, teaching programs probably need to help teachers recognize that they come into their classrooms with particular ideological perspectives, and that they need to reflect on that as they design learning experiences.

Forbes. 5 Reasons School Districts Should Consider Developing Their Own Teachers   … if we can bring a sense of community back, develop and grow our best educators, we might be able to help lower teacher attrition rates and raise the bar for youth—in a place where everyone can empathize with one another.

Inside Higher Ed.
1) Blunt: No Cuts to Work-Study   Democrats on the committee also assailed a number of the president’s other proposed cuts, including to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
2) Higher Ed Deal in the Works?  Senator Lamar Alexander says a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act should pass the education committee in about a month, to give it time to get through Congress this year.

JTE Insider. Author Interview: Roegman & Kolman  …insights from Rachel Roegman [TC EdD ‘14] and Joni S. Kolman [TC EdD ‘13], co-authors of the article “Cascading, Colliding, and Mediating: How Teacher Preparation and K-12 Education Contexts Influence Mentor Teachers’ Work.” What consistently emerged, and we had yet to fully describe in our previous writing (both with A. Lin Goodwin [TC Evenden Prof. of Ed.]), was how mentor teachers are navigating the pressures asserted by two different contexts—teacher preparation and K-12 education—as they work with teacher candidates. 

Library of Congress. Education Resources from the Library of Congress

Philadelphia Enquirer. This Camden principal was once a homeless, single, teenage mom. Now, her story inspires young girls.  With a leap of faith, she eventually packed up her daughters, Charity and Cheyanna, in 2001 and moved to Huntsville, Ala., where she graduated cum laude from Oakwood University in 2006 with a bachelor’s in elementary education. She returned to Camden and landed a teaching position at Parkside Elementary, and later was selected by her colleagues as Teacher of the Year for five straight years.

USA Today. Math scores stink in America. Other countries teach it differently – and see higher achievement.   “Math phobia is real. Math anxiety is real,” said DeAnn Huinker, a professor of mathematics education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who teaches future elementary and middle school teachers. New research suggests that when teachers improve their attitude toward math, it can help to raise student test scores.

NEW YORK STATE
LOHUD. Frances Wills, former schools chief in Briarcliff Manor, Putnam Valley, chosen for Board of Regents   Wills served in education for more than 50 years. She retired on July 1, 2019, as Putnam Valley superintendent after six years on the job. She previously served as Briarcliff Manor’s schools chief for 16 years. Before that, she worked in Maine for 25 years.

NYSED Board of Regents. Statement from Chancellor Betty A. Rosa and Interim State Education Commissioner Shannon Tahoe on Board of Regents Appointments    We are thrilled to congratulate Regents Cashin, Collins, Ouderkirk, Tilles and Young on their re-elections to the Board of Regents….We are also delighted to welcome Dr. Frances Wills to the Board of Regents and look forward to working with her to raise the knowledge, skill, and opportunity of all the people in New York.  

NYSED Board of Regents Meetings.
Early Childhood Education Blue Ribbon Committee Recommendations:

• Strengthen New York State’s Early Childhood Teachers and Leaders
• Birth to Grade 3: Consider expanding Early Childhood Education certification to include Grade 3 to align with Board of Regents policy.
• Preservice Teacher and Leader Preparation
• Teaching Assistant Certification

Proposed Amendments to …Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to the Eligibility Requirements for Loan Forgiveness and Grant Programs

NEW YORK CITY
EdSurge. This Program Is Building a Pipeline of Special Education Teachers   …Terrero enrolled in our Grow Your Own Workforce Development Program (GYO), which is designed to recruit and retain new early childhood educators in New York City. The program exposed her to strategies for working with children with special needs, which she is now applying both at home and in her new role as a certified teacher assistant at the Kennedy Children’s Center, a public special education preschool in New York City. 

Teachers College Human Resources. edTPA Video Services Assistant. Apply now Job no: 505620 Position type: Staff Location: New York City Categories: Information Systems/Technology

GLOBAL
ABC Radio News and Current Affairs   Researchers propose overhaul of teacher training   Australia’s failing to make the most of its best teachers. That’s the finding of a new report from the Grattan Institute on the way experienced teachers are used to train their more junior colleagues. To fix the problem, the researchers are suggesting a professional training model more like that used in Singapore and China.

AhramOnline. Egypt, US discuss cooperation in student scholarships, teacher training   Egypt’s Minister of Education Tarek Shawky discussed on Thursday with US Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce boosting cooperation in the various fields, especially in education and training.

Human Rights Watch. Vietnam: LGBT Youth Unprotected   Teachers are often untrained and ill-equipped to handle cases of anti-LGBT discrimination, and their lessons frequently uphold the widespread myth in Vietnam that same-sex attraction is a disease…

The Star. Why teacher training programme for UEC holders discontinued, asks MCA   The Education Ministry must explain why there are no UEC (Unified Examination Certificate) holders entering the Bachelor of Education teacher training programme (PISMP) this year, says Datuk Chong Sin Woon… “This is the first step towards having UEC recognised in Malaysia,” he said, adding MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong was instrumental in drawing the policy when he served as deputy education minister a decade ago. Chong said this in response to concerns raised by Chinese stakeholders following the Education Ministry’s “calculation” that there were sufficient Chinese language teachers, thus resulting in zero allocation of seats for UEC holders to undergo the teacher training programme this year.

Winrock International. Educating Girls, Changing Lives: Against fierce odds, a village bands together to protect a school for girls in rural Mali   A former university student, Camara says her education provided the opportunity to pursue a life of greater independence. “I’ve been to school, and it’s because of that I can be a teacher today,” she says. “If I hadn’t been to school, today I would be married and cooking for my husband.”

 

UNITED STATES
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.  The President Recommends Big Cuts for Education: Will the Congress Agree?
Higher Education

• Student loan programs take a $190.8 Billion cut over 10 years,
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is eliminated,
• Subsidized student loans are eliminated.
• Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need is eliminated.
• Teacher Quality Partnership Grants are eliminated and considered for inclusion in the “Elementary and Secondary Education for the Disadvantaged Block Grant” noted above.

Association of Teacher Educators. 2020 100th ATE Annual Meeting [Atlantic City, NJ February 15-19]

Chalkbeat. Well-meaning white teachers: it’s time to disrupt your language around Black History Month

Education Week.
1) An Unorthodox Strategy Closes Academic Gaps   In the last few years, Molloy faculty have worked closely with Baldwin to help develop their academies in new-media studies and teacher education. Bogner also singled out the teacher education academy for praise because part of the district’s goal is attracting a more diverse group of potential teachers at a younger age.
2) Principals Say They Need Help to Support Students With Disabilities  The report results parallel findings from a 2019 survey, from the National Center for Learning Disabilities and Understood.org, that found many teachers consider themselves unprepared to meet the needs of millions of children with disabilities in the nation’s public schools.

Forbes. This Entrepreneur Already Is Where Education Will Be   Elangovan has three Masters degrees – one each in public health (Boston University), business (University of Iowa) and elementary education (Teachers College at Columbia University). She taught science at a public school in the Bronx, was a teacher and instructional leader at a private school in Iowa and worked as a director for the National Center for Teacher Residencies…As a result, Elangovan started to think about what it meant to support and develop teachers, and how to do that at scale.

Hechinger Report.
1) Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future: Academic labs test artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other innovations to boost learning, lower costs   …less sophisticated simulations are being used in schools of education, where trainee teachers practice coping with simulated schoolchildren in computer-generated classrooms. 
2) ‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South   In recent years, the state has pushed “grow your own” efforts to shore up the local teaching force in rural areas. In 2019, the state education department launched teacher residency programs in four districts… The approach has limitations, beyond the difficulty of convincing students to come back to communities devastated by poverty. Some aspiring teachers educated in under-resourced schools struggle to pass the tests required to enroll in the state’s teacher prep programs. In several Delta districts, the education department is piloting an alternative license program for teachers with temporary licenses who have difficulty passing certification exams, but show promising talent in the classroom.

InsideHigherEd.
1) 41% of Recent Grads Work in Jobs Not Requiring a Degree   Recent graduates of programs in education, engineering and nursing have among the lowest unemployment and underemployment rates…
2) Hardin-Simmons Cuts 22 Academic Programs   President Eric Bruntmyer said the Christian institution is cutting a doctor of ministry program, as well as several master’s programs in education… and two teacher certification programs.
3) Title IX Complicates Hill Negotiations on Higher Ed   Any deal to update the law governing federal student aid would have to overcome concerns about the highly charged new rule U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is about to release on what colleges are required do about allegations of sexual assault or harassment on campuses… a stumbling block toward reauthorizing the Higher Education Act.

LPI.
1) California’s Special Education Teacher Shortage   California’s worsening shortage of special education teachers is a “five-alarm fire,” with two of every three new recruits entering without having completed preparation programs.
2) Inequitable Opportunity to Learn: Student Access to Certified and Experienced Teachers   Nationally, urban schools have the largest percentages of uncertified and inexperienced teachers, but CRDC data show that in all kinds of schools—rural, suburban, and urban—students in schools with high enrollment of students of color have less access to certified and experienced teachers than their white peers.

NYTimes.
1) Bringing a New Vibe to the Classroom: Some educators are experimenting with their approaches to teaching to make course materials more relevant to various cultures and communities.   At the forefront are teachers like Christopher Emdin, 40, a science educator and the author of “For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood … and the Rest of Y’all Too.” He has been a leader in the #HipHopEd initiative, which integrates urban youth culture with learning. The Science Genius program, for example, uses hip-hop music and rhymes in teaching science.
2) An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics   … findings have pushed some states and school districts to make big changes in how teachers are trained and students are taught… Even some leading researchers in the science of reading, including Professor Seidenberg, acknowledge that studies do not yet point toward specific curriculum materials that will be most effective at teaching phonics.

University of St. Thomas. Key Partnerships Help School of Education Diversify Minnesota’s Teaching Workforce   In a partnership with St. Thomas through school residencies (including the St. Paul Public Schools Urban Teacher Residency Program and the Minneapolis Special Education Teacher Residency) and the Work and Learn program, districts “grow their own” educators by investing in people already working for them. 

 

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College.
1) TC Dance Educator Barbara Bashaw is Featured on the Cover of Dance Teacher Magazine   Bashaw (Ed.D. ’11, M.A. ’96) is the Arnhold Professor of Practice in Dance Education… “a pioneer” in dance education and “an inspiring force in teacher training” who uses her past experience as a public school teacher as “a touchstone”…
2) TC’s Felicia Mensah Teams with a Former Student to Write about Teaching Science and Technology to Girls   Mensah’s research addresses issues of diversity, equity and identity in science teacher preparation and teacher professional development.