Tag: Teaching Residencies

GLOBAL
Manila Standard. Poor teacher training  …the quality of education that future teachers are getting needs much improvement as half of the schools training them perform poorly in the annual licensure exams for educators.

Medical Press [Norway]. Researcher builds kit designed to make our brain’s activity easier for students to understand   Pål Kvello, an associate professor at NTNU’s Department of Teacher Education…creating a building kit of neurons that shows how the nervous system works in a simple way came up while he was working on his doctorate in neurobiology… Kvello received a good response to this idea in his new teacher education position…

The Tribune [India]. GNDU gets nod for teacher education programmes   Northern Regional Committee, National Council for Teacher Education, New Delhi, has approved Integrated Teacher Education Programmes (ITEP) vis-a-vis BA-B.Ed, BSc-B.Ed and B.Com-B.Ed for secondary stage teachers to the Department of Education, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), from the session 2023-24. The intake capacity of these courses is 50 students each…

UNITED STATES
AACTE
1) Annual Meeting Keynote. Revolutionizing the Future: Emerging Scholars Consider the Impact of Academic Censorship [Sat., Feb. 25, 3:45 – 5:15 p.m Indianapolis]
2) Tips for Supporting Teachers at Every Phase of Their Career   A webinar discussion on teacher support featuring Lynn M. Gangone, Machel Mills-Miles, Ann Stark, and Brent Raby [Wed. Feb,15, 4:00 pm EST]

Chalkbeat.
1) Gov. Lee aims to raise minimum salary for Tennessee teachers to $50,000 by 2027   Lee’s education chief, Penny Schwinn, told Chalkbeat that a large jump in base pay would transform efforts to recruit educators to the profession — and retain them in subsequent years.
2) Pre-K for all Michigan 4-year-olds sounds good. But will there be enough teachers?   A certified early childhood educator can make $20,000 more per year working with K-3 students rather than 4-year-olds… Certified preschool teachers are among the highest paid early educators in Michigan; most child care workers make far less.
3) Teacher apprenticeships among solutions lawmakers consider for educator shortages   A teacher apprenticeship program, stipends and loan forgiveness for student teachers, and the ability for out-of-state teachers to more easily qualify to work in Colorado. Those are the ideas Colorado lawmakers have proposed this year… 
4) Whitmer wants to extend help for future educators, but drops teacher retention bonus plan   …plan to continue the MI Future Educator incentive program …It provides $50 million in stipends for student teachers and $25 million in scholarships for education majors. Her new budget proposal would maintain those spending levels and add $25 million to “ensure sustainability of the program,”… 

Education Week.
1) Gholdy Muhammad Champions ‘Unearthing Joy’ in Her New Book   As I continue to teach young people, preservice teachers, and scholars, while working with school leaders, I find that we need joy more than ever.
2) Pennsylvania School Funding Is Unconstitutional, Judge Says. Here’s What Could Happen Next   … the judge provided such a detailed analysis tackling the question of whether Pennsylvania students actually receive the education the state constitution entitles them to, said Michael Rebell, executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at the Columbia University Teachers College, which tracks legal cases on school funding nationwide.
3) Teacher-Prep Programs Miss Chances to Build Teachers’ Content Knowledge, Report Says   The analysis, released today, comes from the National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy group that advocates for more rigorous teacher preparation. The organization has previously reviewed preparation requirements in other elementary subjects including early reading and math.
4) Why Recruiting Bilingual Educators Works   Aside from having the language skills or certification, I want someone who believes in these students. We’re not going to force you to become a bilingual teacher, even if you have the right certification.

FiveThirtyEight. Why More States Don’t Have Universal Pre-K   In general, as with other levels of education, the advocates and researchers I spoke with defined high-quality as having: *Teachers who are educated at least through college;… 

Hechinger Report. Is a ‘DARPA for education’ finally happening?: Advocates say new government funding is a down payment on long-awaited research and development arm of DOE   Education experts say the new unit could help seed advancements in how students learn and teachers teach in a rapidly evolving digital age, in which the education field can be caught off guard by the latest developments, such as AI’s explosion on the market.

InsideHigherEd.
1) Education Department Hints at Possible Delay of FAFSA   Overhauling the federal financial system and simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid is a significant undertaking for the Education Department. Although the agency is making progress on the project, officials said this week the application might not be ready by Oct. 1. 
2) Making Sure a Degree Is Worth More Than a Diploma: In Colorado, falling enrollment and growing skepticism of higher ed’s worth prompted a proposal to measure the “economic value” of academic programs at public colleges.   Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers… placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

Learning Policy Institute. State of the Union 2023: Education Edition “Let’s give public school teachers a raise.”  …compensation is just one piece of the puzzle. This comprehensive plan for strengthening the profession outlines additional evidence-based strategies for making teaching an affordable, sustainable, and fulfilling career.

Miami Herald. Florida is keeping students from creating a stable, prosperous and socially cohesive future   …we got to hear from a high-ranking Florida public-school official… he assured us that his administration cared about cultivating character and training students to be virtuous citizens who engage in reasoned dialogue. As an educator of educators in Florida, that surprised me. I’m hearing from my students who are on the ground in the schools that the current climate feels constraining.

New York Times.
1) Education Issues Vault to Top of the G.O.P.’s Presidential Race   Democratic strategists, pointing to the midterm results and to polling, said voters viewed cultural issues in education as far less important than school funding, teacher shortages….
2) Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies   Intersectionality, for example, is an influential theory first laid out by the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. It posits that race, class, gender, sexuality and other forms of identity intersect in ways that shape individuals’ experience of the world… In a written statement to The Times, Professor Crenshaw said, “People need to pay very close attention to this story — not just Black studies educators and K-12 teachers, but everyone who worries that the slide to authoritarianism is real. This is how it happens.”
3) Lesson Plan: The Devastating Earthquake in Turkey and Syria   Ways to help students understand the crisis and how they can make a difference.

Washington Post. Thanks to covid, half of kids were below grade level in at least one subject   According to the federal definition, high-dosage tutoring is done at least three times a week, one-on-one or in small groups, for at least 30 minutes per session; it is provided by educators or well-trained tutors and aligned with an evidence-based core curriculum or program.

NEW YORK STATE
New York State Board of Regents. February 13-14, 2023 Meeting Higher Education: Proposed Amendment …Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification

News 10. The College of Saint Rose sees encouraging progress in teaching initiative   The program aims to increase enrollment in education programs, something the college believes is a key contributor to the nationwide teacher shortage… The full initiative launches in the fall. Registration for the virtual courses can be found here, they will also be posted on the college’s Youtube page in the coming weeks.

The Buffalo News. Buffalo State Urban Teacher Pipeline helps teacher aides, assistants become teachers   …residency program is a conduit to help teacher aides and assistants in Buffalo city schools earn teaching certification while continuing to work in their schools. It offers teacher education classes in evenings, on weekends and in summer, provides free tuition for two courses a semester and covers fees and books.

The Education Trust-New York. Representation Matters: A look at the state of teacher diversity in New York    Districts and the state can use the significant new funding from the American Rescue Plan Act and increases in state Foundation Aid to support programs and initiatives to advance these key priorities including: Strengthen the teacher preparation pipeline for future teachers and school leaders of color by:
>  Requiring diversity data collection and transparency for teacher preparation programs;
>  Requiring teacher preparation programs to improve diversity and strengthen program components that prepare all teaching and administrator candidates to educate all groups of students;
>  Expanding the Teacher Opportunity Corps grant program, which recruits and supports historically underrepresented and low-income teaching candidates;
>  Strengthening relationships between school districts and teacher preparation programs, including the expansion of “Grow Your Own” initiatives;…

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. Anticipating challenges to NYC class size law, Banks will launch ‘working group’   The education department anticipates the need to hire 7,000 new teachers to comply with the law, according to Banks. 

Education Week. Want to Recruit Male Teachers of Color? Look to This New York City Leader   Chimere Stephens, the director of NYC Men Teach at the NYC Department of Education… Now, the pipeline he’s helped build to bring men of color into the teaching force stretches all the way back to high schoolers, continues with college students, and includes on-ramps for those already working as paraprofessionals and in similar positions throughout the city’s schools.

New York Post. Black and Latino educators support lawmakers’ push for more minority-led charter schools in NY  … create a new state charter school commission and attempt to dramatically increase the pool of minority teachers by … providing college loan forgiveness and allowing charter schools to offer alternative licensing.

Pix11News. Program aims to increase teacher diversity at NYC schools   A local program is working to bring more men of color to teach students in New York City classrooms. The partnership between the City University of New York, City Hall, and the Department of Education to increase the number of men of color teaching is already making a difference in children’s lives… NYC Men Teach initiative…

Spectrum News. City schools to expand dyslexia reading pilot program   Banks said he and the mayor are now expanding programs like the Structured Literacy Schools pilot from two schools to four. “At these schools, educators across subjects were trained in evidence-based literacy practices…” 

GLOBAL
Evening Standard. London public and state schools unite to find science teacher amid hiring ‘crisis’   Mary Bousted, president of the National Education Union, whose members were on strike on Wednesday, said the Government missed its secondary school teacher training targets by 41 per cent this year, meaning only three out of 17 subjects have enough teachers.

Hindustan Times. Union Budget: National digital library to be set up; focus on teacher training   The government will re-envision teachers’ training and develop institutes of excellence at the district level for the purpose and set up a national digital library to make available quality books digitally to help children and adolescents overcome learning losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

UNESCO.
1) 2023 SDG4 scorecard on progress towards national SDG 4 benchmarks: key findings   So far three in four countries have submitted benchmarks, or national targets, to be achieved by 2030 for at least one of seven key education indicators: early childhood education attendance; out-of-school rates; completion rates; gender gaps in completion rates; minimum proficiency rates in reading and mathematics; trained teachers; and public education expenditure…
2) SDG4 scorecard progress report on national benchmarks: focus on early childhood   Another case is highlighted by the percentage of primary school trained teachers (global indicator 4.c.1b)… A particular aspect of this indicator is that throughout the range of observed values, the bottom 25% of countries in each starting point range has negative change, which means that their percentage of trained teachers has been declining.
3) Webinar. Learning from PEER country profiles: The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education [Feb 15, 2023 02:00 PM Paris time]

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Ball State University to Play Major Role in Apprenticeship Supporting Indiana Educator Pipeline   Ball State University will play a major role in a first-of-its-kind program in the nation centered on special education after the recent federal approval of a state registered apprenticeship supporting the educator pipeline. 

ABC 13News. VDOE application approved to create registered teacher apprentice program in Virginia   The Virginia Department of Education and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry signed an agreement approving VDOE’s application to create a registered teacher apprentice program in the state. Virginia’s newly approved program is one of only a handful of teacher apprentice programs nationwide that meet U.S. Department of Labor and Industry standards and are eligible for funding through several federal workforce-development grants…

American Experiment. What the new teacher licensing standards mean for teacher preparation providers   Gov. Tim Walz’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) proposed amendments to the rules governing teacher licensure in Minnesota. These changes are expected to be formally adopted later this winter or early spring and then go into effect on July 1, 2024. Unfortunately, the approved changes politicize teacher training requirements.

Arizona State Univ. Fulton Teachers College. Next Education Workforce Summit Teacher Residencies: A Promising Approach to Enhancing a High-Quality, Sustainable Workforce [Wed Feb 08, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM MST]

Austin Peay State Univ. APSU Conference on Teacher Shortage Registration  [Tuesday, February 28, 2023 virtually via Zoom]

Chalkbeat. Tony Sanders named next Illinois State Superintendent of Education  While the state had a teacher shortage prior to COVID-19, the pandemic exacerbated the need for more teachers in classrooms. The state launched initiatives to get more bilingual teachers into classrooms and increase the number of students of color in teacher preparation programs. Some school districts have invested in Grow Your Own programs that support new educators while they are getting licensure. 

Education Trust. It’s Time to Invest in High-Quality Teacher Preparation   Research demonstrates that the quality of a teacher’s preparation directly correlates with their classroom performance a classroom filled with our children, our neighbors, and our future leaders.

Education Week.
1) 4 Actions Districts and States Can Take to Increase Staff Diversity    Working with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions, and nonprofits that prepare educators of color or educators of any race focused on equity, change management, and identity can draw a wider pool of qualified candidates… States have additional ways to make a difference, according to the report. When renewing program licenses, for example, they can require the preparation programs to provide data on their commitment and track record of educating and placing leaders of color and the outcomes for those graduates. 
2) A Bilingual Aide Explains the Value of Representation for English Learners   Reach University partners with school districts in Alabama, Arkansas, California, and Louisiana to offer online bachelor’s degree programs, helping paraprofessionals become teachers while still working in a school.
3) Black History Belongs in Early Elementary School: Grades K-2 are a particularly fertile time to nurture students’ creativity   Elementary teachers must be willing—and trained—to suspend the conventional notions of knowledge building and content mastery, sincerely appreciate the brilliance Black students bring to the classroom, and be willing to continue learning themselves. 
4) How to Teach Black History: A Resource List
5) Once Resistant, An Alabama Town Now Sees Its English Learners as Its Future   He found faculty with limited or no training on English learners frustrated at being unable to effectively teach around language barriers. Students, in turn, showed little engagement in the classroom. Teachers failed English learners almost as a default… To change hearts and minds, Grimes got more training into schools and brought in more ESL staff. 
6) Students Want Climate Change Education. Most Teachers Don’t Get Enough Training   Among science teachers specifically, a significant subset of the nationally representative sample, a third have never received any professional training or education on climate change. Another third said they had pursued training or research on climate change and/or how to teach it, but on their own time. Mostly, this happened outside of their preparation to teach.

Fox News.
1) Lawmakers in 10 states push to eliminate relicensing restrictions for teachers moving across state lines   The idea for an Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact was first proposed by the U.S. Department of Defense and is designed, in part, to support military spouses. It would effectively allow teaching licenses to be viable across members of the compact, cutting through the current 50-state patchwork of disparate requirements.
2) Minnesota licensing board using ‘mafia tactics’ on new teachers to accept critical race theory: Experts   She claimed that the entire board that came up with this Minnesota teacher licensing is politicized, being funded and promoted and lobbied by the very people that put them into office or put into office the people who appointed them, while teachers are ignored. “This is called bullying. These are mafia tactics. This is being run by a cartel,” Friedrichs said.

InsideHigherEd. A Subtle Subterfuge, an Outrage or Both?: Florida College System presidents signed a statement promising not to support any effort that “compels belief” in critical race theory on their campuses.   Some professors saw the statement as a baffling and infuriating capitulation to Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who’s made no secret of his plans to purge the teaching of critical race theory—or anything that may be mistaken for critical race theory—from Florida public education. 

K-12 Dive. Momentum grows for family engagement in teacher prep: A framework developed by the National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement aims for greater integration.   Released in December, the framework suggests educator preparation programs dedicate courses and fieldwork to family and community engagement. This work should be embedded throughout a teacher candidate’s coursework and not just in one standalone class, the guidance said.

Washington Post.
1) College enrollment stabilizing after years of steep declines, data show   Business and education programs are also losing steam, with declines of 5.3 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively.
2) DeSantis aims to cut college diversity efforts; New College ousts president   The governor’s proposals feed into a larger culture war he is waging across Florida, where DeSantis has signed a law limiting what professors can teach about race…

NEW YORK STATE
Center for Educational Equity. Center for Educational Equity Files Amicus Brief Supporting New Regulations on Substantial Equivalency in New York’s Nonpublic Schools   The Court’s reasoning in upholding the educational regulations at issue in Jokinen deserve special attention. In that case, the regulations required that non-public kindergartens must, among other things, have “teachers whose training is substantially equivalent to that of public school teachers”; an “adequate curriculum and teacher-pupil ratio;”…

NYSED Office of Higher Education  January Newsletter
* Board Of Regents January Items: a) Certification for College Professors, b) Reciprocity.
* Teacher Performance Assessment Submission Process
* SWD (All Grades) Certificate Application Posted
* NYSATE/NYACTE Virtual Question and Answer Panel
* Intent to Reissue the Teaching in Remote/Hybrid Learning Environments (TRLE) Request For Proposals

Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching.
1) November Minutes
2) New York State Mentoring Standards: An Overview
3) NYS Program Guidance and Standards for Mentoring 2022

NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College Prepared to Teach. A Strong Momentum for 2023    Prepared To Teach and our partners have been busy the last two months with a ton of engagements around advancing quality teacher preparation throughout the country. 

Teachers College.
1) Navigating the Risks and Rewards of ChatGPT: Both beloved and banned, the new artificial intelligence software is making waves in school districts across the county   “The danger is that [educators] start relying on those tools before they have the in-depth knowledge about teaching and classroom management and lesson planning design,” TC’s Paulo Blikstein, … notes Vasudevan … Educators may not need to work against ChatGPT, but rather learn how to minimize the risks it introduces and welcome the opportunity to be critical of its use in education.
2) Studying While Black During the Jim Crow Era: A look back on how northern schools like Teachers College welcomed Black graduate students blocked from attending schools in the segregationist South   Nearly 100 years later, McAllister’s trailblazing career is set to be celebrated in a forthcoming museum… “One of her sayings was that ‘Poorly prepared teachers teach poorly prepared students to become poorly prepared teachers,’” remembers cousin Bettye Gardner. “And that’s why she ultimately chose to go to Teachers College.”

GLOBAL
Forbes. 50 Over 50: Europe, Middle East And Africa 2023   Ursula Nold: In 2019, at 50, Nold was elected as chair of the board of Migros, Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain… Up until last 2022, she served as a lecturer at the institute for further education and media education at the University of Teacher Education in Bern.

New York Times. Inside India’s Cram City: In Kota, students from across the country pay steep fees to be tutored for elite-college admissions exams — which most of them will fail.   Bansal’s teaching style was rooted in the Kumon method, which was invented by a Japanese high school teacher named Toru Kumon in the 1950s. It was predicated on mastering one topic before moving onto the next.… new coaching institutes … cropped up. They mimicked his teaching style in an attempt to capitalize on the growing demand. So many instructors were being poached or leaving to start their own centers that Bansal created a reserve of roughly 200 teachers and trainees. 

Teachers College. How the TC Tunisia Project Makes an Impact: The program, led by TC’s ZhaoHong Han, is training English language teachers critical to a developing economy   “Knowing English would give [Tunisians] better access to today’s global economy,” explains Han, noting that the demand for English teachers is part of a broader trend throughout the region. “We’re training teachers who are training the next workforce.”

UNITED STATES
AACTE. Biden-Harris Administration Proposes New Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) Plan   The Biden-Harris Administration today announced a new proposal to reduce the cost of federal student loan payments, especially for low- and middle-income borrowers. While AACTE is generally supportive of the proposal, which according to a fact sheet will make college more affordable for perspective educators, additional steps must be taken to address the nationwide shortage of highly qualified, diverse teachers in our classrooms. 

AL.com. Alabama wants to launch teacher apprenticeships for college students   Alabama will be the latest state to add teaching to the list of registered apprenticeships, thanks to an executive order from Gov. Kay Ivey issued Wednesday. College students working on a bachelor’s degree to teach will be able to lead their own classroom during their final year of college, instead of student teaching under the guidance of a credentialed teacher.

Aljazeera. American schooling is broken if six-year-olds are now threats: That students and teachers must fear guns in first-grade classrooms reflects on a failed school system.   As a teacher educator for those pursuing their K-12 licenses, I’ve yet to figure out how to incorporate lessons on dodging bullets into my curriculum or how to view young children as potentially dangerous. The very idea that my work requires this shift in thinking is repulsive and maddening.

Chalkbeat.
1) Departing State Superintendent Carmen Ayala looks back at her tenure, COVID challenges   To help get more teachers in certain fields, we started the career and technical education pathways where you provide grants and give designation on students’ diplomas that they have completed a particular pathway. This program provides students with dual credit and early teaching experiences to help them move on towards getting a teacher license. We’re preparing for potentially more than 10,000 teachers across Illinois.  
2) I recruit future teachers. I’m not always sure I’m doing the right thing.   My conviction comes from piles of research showing that students are uniquely inspired when they see themselves in their teacher. But my conflict and concern come from other things we know are true about teaching. One is the sad reality that, for college students, there is greater potential for economic mobility in choosing a profession other than teaching.
3) Pa. high schools could start offering students K-12 education training next school year   Starting next school year, Pennsylvania schools will have a new career and technical education option to offer students: K-12 education… the goal of the program is to expose young people to careers in education… the state Department of Education is working with the state Department of Labor and Industry to make teaching a registered apprenticeship in Pennsylvania. 

ClickOrlando.com. Osceola school district hiring teachers abroad to help with teacher shortage: District is implementing certification program to help get more teachers in classrooms   Aside from using the international teacher program to help bridge the gap, the school district is hoping a new initiative will help them get more teachers. “We are looking toward alternative certification teachers now, so anybody that may have a journalist degree, language arts degree, something that’s not in education, we have a great program to help them to learn how to be a great teacher with us,” Otterson said.

Education Week.
1) 19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom
2) English Teachers Should Teach More Nonfiction, National Group Says. Here’s How   The NCTE statement posits that teachers are unaware of the vast body of nonfiction literature—which can encompass memoirs, essays, informational texts, literary or narrative journalism, and more—because many states don’t require prospective teachers to take courses in children’s and young adult literature in their teacher-preparation programs. 
3) How Does Writing Fit Into the ‘Science of Reading’?      …teaching writing is hard. Few studies document what preparation teachers receive to teach writing, but in surveys, many teachers say they received little training in their college education courses…
4) Teachers Are Not Meant to Be Martyrs: Why we need to give educators more power to shape policy   Nothing in my teacher-preparation program was geared toward engaging with policy. This, too, needs to change. Teachers should not have to leave the classroom to feel like they can interact with policy. It should be part and parcel of the work of teaching.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania. IUP Receives Funding from Pennsylvania Department of Education for Program to Address Teacher Shortage, Diversity in Teacher Workforce   Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been selected to receive $72,049 from the Pennsylvania Department of Education through its Teacher Prep 2 Practice grant program. IUP’s funding will be used to design a culturally relevant teaching academy to diversify the teacher workforce and address the national teacher shortage. This work will take place in partnership with the Gateway School District in Monroeville, Allegheny County.

InsideHigherEd. State Budgets Are Booming. How Will Higher Ed Fare?  Last year, the Iowa state Legislature considered a proposal to tie some higher education appropriations directly to workforce preparation and in-state retention… the new model would create a Workforce Grant and Incentive Program to dole out grant money to individual students on a path toward a career deemed “high-demand” by the state, like teaching, nursing or engineering.

Learning Policy Institute (LPI). Educator Preparation Laboratory Third Annual Policy Summit Building the Teacher Pipeline: Emerging Models for High-Quality Educator Preparation   [Tuesday, January 24 1:30–3:00 p.m. ET]

National Center for Grow Your Own (NCGYO). National Registered Apprenticeship in Teaching Network  …the National Center for Grow Your Own (NCGYO) announces the launch of the National Registered Apprenticeship in Teaching Network. This network consists of states from around the country innovating with registered apprenticeships in teaching to address educator shortages. The network will meet to discuss the design and implementation of registered apprenticeships in teaching, inform policy and practice on the national stage and provide feedback to the U.S. Department of Labor.

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Position Statement on the Role of Nonfiction Literature (K-12)   Perhaps these circumstances remain relatively unchanged because many states no longer require courses in children’s and young adult literature as part of their teacher preparation programs, denying teachers the opportunity to learn about this essential body of work

The 74.
1) A New Playbook to Recruit Tutors: Tap Teachers in Training   Amid labor shortages, hiring from teacher prep programs could ‘unlock’ up to a half million new tutor candidates nationwide, experts say
2) Inside the Incubator Using Apprenticeships to Redesign Teacher Preparation: Federally approved apprenticeships in teaching are less than a year old. These states are working together to roll out the nation’s first programs   Being an approved apprenticeship program unlocks both state and federal dollars… How to build financially sustainable models is a recurring conversation topic at the monthly meet ups, Donaldson said. 

WALB. Valdosta State University receives $750K to tackle teacher shortage   Valdosta State University has received $750,000 in federal funding to address the teacher shortage in rural areas… VSU started as a teacher-training college in 1913. So, they say the fact that they’re still able to provide and support that mission in 2023 is truly amazing for them and their students.

Washington Post. The geometry teacher is a recording. The chemistry students often teach themselves: Teacher shortages are getting renewed attention this year. But in Mississippi and other Southern states, this crisis dates back more than a decade.   Mississippi’s teacher shortage is long-standing, dating back to at least 1998, when state legislators passed a law that offered college scholarships for teachers-in-training in exchange for a commitment to teach in a community with a shortage. It has tried a number of initiatives to recruit teachers, including residencies where the state pays the tuition of a prospective teacher and a stipend for them to do long-term student teaching.

WDRB. Simmons College furthers resurgence, announces partnership with University of Kentucky   The agreement announced Tuesday morning creates a new pre-law and teacher education program at Simmons and gives opportunities for students and staff to visit for special events and speakers at the two schools.

WIBW. Western Governors launches scholarship in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.   Western Governors University has launched a scholarship in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. in hopes of supporting those who have struggled to achieve educational goals… the “I Have a Dream” Scholarships are open to new and returning students in any of its 80+ undergraduate and graduate degree programs in information technology, business, K-12 teacher education and health professions.

NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. New York’s PE teacher of the year has a big YouTube following for kid fitness videos   How and when did you decide to become a teacher? I was studying exercise science at Manhattan College, playing soccer for their team, while working at a children’s gymnastics studio on the side, running classes and hosting parties… I spoke to my Manhattan College career counselor Dr. Shawn Ladda. We discussed my job at the time, and that is when the lightbulb went off, and Dr. Ladda said elementary physical education! You can combine your passion and your talent for your career! 

New York State United Teachers (NYSUT). Call for Article Proposals for Educator’s Voice, Vol. XV Post-Pandemic Shifts: Learning and Growing through Change [proposal deadline Apr. 1]

NEW YORK CITY
Columbia University. Columbia University Names Minouche Shafik 20th President   For Shafik, teaching and research are synergistic. She believes that teaching at a top-tier university like Columbia “is informed by and imbued with research,” and that students should be thought of as “future scholars who themselves will have to develop the skills of creating knowledge and advancing their own arguments.” 

New York Times. Columbia Names Nemat Shafik as President, the First Woman to Lead the University: The economist, who runs the London School of Economics, takes over as higher education faces tumult — over free speech, costs and the likely end of affirmative action.

GLOBAL
Pulse.com. GES delays vacation of basic schools, re-opening date remains the same   … about 44,000 teachers have failed the mandatory Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination (GTLE). The Registrar for the National Teaching Council, Dr Christian Addai-Poku disclosed this at the 2022/23 Cohort …He lamented that the results of the examinations were worrying, considering the poor performance of the teachers who were supposed to be imparting knowledge to children.

Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC). Production Report: Teaching Residents at Teachers College (TR@TC) 2022 – Present  Research presentations in Armenia and Turkey

The Conversation. We asked 900 Australian teachers if evidence informs how they teach – and found most use it, but there are key gaps   Our survey also suggests teachers do not get enough support and training to access research-based approaches.

The Guardian. Teacher shortage could worsen after DfE rejects dozens of training courses  England’s teacher shortage could worsen after the government rejected appeals by dozens of established providers to gain official accreditation for their initial teacher training courses… Only 179 out of 240 existing teacher training courses have been accredited under DfE’s new standards from 2024

UNITED STATES
AACTE. New Board Members Elected for 2023

ABC News. Lawmakers propose raising teachers’ minimum salaries to $60K to stem ‘mass exodus’   Wilson said she’s seen firsthand how other teachers can feel undervalued, weakening the workforce as a whole. She said that her son Paul became a teacher to follow in her footsteps, but his college professors attempted to dissuade him because they said teachers weren’t paid enough… The American Teacher Act would be one remedy to those concerns. The bill, co-led by Wilson and Bowman, was drafted in collaboration with the nonprofit, nonpartisan Teacher Salary Project.

Burlington County Times. NJ task force on public school staff shortages gets final 23 members   In an attempt to help alleviate the shortage, Murphy in September eliminated a key teacher licensing test from state requirements. The educative Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA, will nonetheless have to be replaced with another benchmark to ensure teacher quality, according to state records.

Chalkbeat. Her students were babies during lockdown. Here’s how that’s changed her approach.   What advice would you give someone considering a career in early childhood education? First, see if this is the right fit for you. Visit and observe all types of schools and all ages, birth to five. Learn about Maria Montessori, Emilia Reggio, and play-based schools. Visit a Head Start, charter, or traditional public school, or one of the academically focused centers. 

Chronicle. The Pandemic Accelerates a Decline in Campus-Based Child Care   Many day cares are operating at reduced capacity because of health restrictions or staff shortages… The larger of Amarillo College’s two centers is licensed to serve 135 students, but currently has only 78 because of staffing shortages, according to Dennis Sarine, director of teacher preparation and early childhood education. 

EdWeek.
1) The Biden Administration’s New STEM Initiative: What Will It Mean for K-12 Schools?   Micron, a semiconductor, memory, and storage manufacturer, and the National Science Foundation plan to invest $10 million to accelerate training of new STEMM teachers, support the retention of existing STEMM educators, and advance diversity and equity in the STEMM teacher workforce.
2) Teachers Would Make at Least $60K Under New Federal Bill   The bill also would dedicate funds to a national campaign that would expand awareness of the value of teaching and encourage secondary and college students to consider the career. 
3) Virtual Career Fair for Teachers and K-12 Staff [January 26, 2023; 2:00 to 6:00 PM EST]

Forbes. New Bill Aims To End The Teacher Shortage With Higher Pay   Aiming to drastically increase the number and quality of people entering the teaching profession, the bill includes not only raises, but also national campaigns on the value of teaching. These campaigns may help to attract new talent and strengthen the weak teacher pipeline.

Hechinger Report. Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic: Analysis of 7 million students across the country sounds alarm for younger learners    Teachers in older grades don’t necessarily have the specialized training to backfill what students missed.  A second grade teacher, for example, would likely not know much about teaching students how to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words, an important step in learning to read called “phonemic awareness,” because it’s a skill that is the province of kindergarten and first grade teachers, Shanahan explained. 

Jersey Journal. This New Jersey university is laying off 30 professors, eliminating 37% of academic programs   Cash-strapped New Jersey City University is taking a sharpened axe to its list of academic programs and roster of professors… The programs eliminated include numerous science degrees from Environmental Science, Physics, and concentrations in Biology, Early Childhood and Elementary teaching degrees…

Learning Policy Institute (LPI).
1) The Road to Recovery in Learning: How California Points the Way   …efforts have left no aspect of education untouched, including: * investing $3 billion in teacher recruitment and retention through service scholarships, supports for preparation and mentoring, and new program models like teacher residencies… Los Angeles was also able to open school with all of its vacancies filled this year, while many districts were experiencing severe shortages, in part because it was …reaping the benefits of its several teacher residency programs that produced a well-prepared supply of teachers in shortage areas who have been staying in the classroom. 
2) Webinar: Educator Preparation Laboratory Second Annual Policy Summit [Jan 24, 2023 01:30 PM in Eastern Time]

NYTimes.
1) There’s a Reason There Aren’t Enough Teachers in America. Many Reasons, Actually.   Here are just a few of the longstanding problems plaguing American education: a generalized decline in literacy; the faltering international performance of American students; an inability to recruit enough qualified college graduates into the teaching profession… both intended and unintended consequences for teacher accountability reforms mandating tougher licensing rules, evaluations and skill testing….
2) Thousands of Teens Are Being Pushed Into Military’s Junior R.O.T.C.   J.R.O.T.C. programs, taught by military veterans at some 3,500 high schools across the country, are supposed to be elective…
3) Why Some Hasidic Children Can’t Leave Failing Schools   Recently, Ms. Weber said, Aaron’s teacher told him that the planets revolve around the Earth.

Washington Post. Study: Public schools paid teachers more than private ones in 2020-21   Public school teachers earned more than their counterparts in private schools in 2020-21, extending a longtime trend linked to licensing requirements…

NEW YORK STATE
Board of Regents. December Meetings
Proposed Amendment … Relating to Extensions for Coordinators of Work-Based Learning Programs  The proposed extension will also have the same base certificate, coursework, and experience requirements as the Coordinator of Work-Based Learning Programs for Career Awareness extension, with some revisions. The revisions include removing references to Provisional teaching certificates that no longer exist and adding Initial and Professional School Counselor certificates that become effective February 2, 2023, as eligible certificates for the base certificate requirement

WKBW Buffalo. Lack of teachers of color in classrooms   …Buff State’s effort goes even deeper, reaching students in high school. The college operates two urban teacher academies in the Buffalo Public School District — McKinley and International Prep.

NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. This virtual learning program has ‘changed the game’ for NYC’s small high schools  “Pretty quickly I was like, wow this is very different,” said Ellis-Lee, who is teaching AP US History and AP Human Geography virtually this year. “The kids are in a classroom in their school, they’re not sitting in their bed. There’s none of that trauma that we had to go through, thank God. And they also have a live, certified teacher that they already know in the room with them.”

NYPost. NYC parents scramble for kindergarten Gifted & Talented entry   …Adams said. “I’ve also had pre-K teachers tell me, ‘I haven’t been trained to assess whether or not a child is gifted. If a parent asks me for a nomination, I am going to give it.’” 

Teachers College. 5 Must-Read Books on Race & Inclusion for Teachers   To help support and challenge educators at the start of the school year, we asked Teachers College faculty members to share their recommendations of thoughtful, anti-racist works to inspire you professionally and beyond

GLOBAL
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Educators as Soldiers on the Global Education Battlefield   Utilizing the network of colleagues through the international educational collaboration between GCUE (Global Community uniting for Equity) and its affiliate in Ukraine, CEUJE (Community of Educators Uniting for Justice and Equity), Rochonda Nenonene and Novea McIntosh,  from the University of Dayton — a Marianist community educating for justice, service, and peace across the world — collaborated with Ukrainian future teachers to teach them culturally responsive assessment and social-emotional learning strategies. 

ERR (Estonia). State provides extensive subsidies for transition to education in Estonian   “We will raise the number of teacher training places at universities, offer more flexible modes of study, provide language training for educators and encourage teachers to enter and remain in the profession in order to increase the number of teachers with strong Estonian language skills,” Lukas explained.

Ministers of the Education Portfolio. Draft National Teacher Workforce Action Plan released   Actions the Australian Government will fund include: * $159 million to train more teachers,…

News18 (India). HP Education Regulator Impose Rs 34 Lakh Fine on NCFSE Group   A hefty penalty of nearly Rs 34.05 lakh has been imposed on the NCFSE group of institutions by the state’s educational commission for violating the regulations of a teacher education programme… Seventeen institutions have admitted students in the two-year Diploma in Nursery Teacher Training (DNTT) and the one-year Nursery Teacher Training (NTT) courses after getting affiliation from the NCFSE in violation of regulations of the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE), the officials said.

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AACTE. Using COVID Funds to Support Apprenticeships   The Department of Education issued a Dear Colleague letter to states and local educational agencies (LEAs) to remind them that they can continue to respond to the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic by using funds Congress appropriated in response to the pandemic to, among other things, expand opportunities for high-quality work-based learning, often referred to as “apprenticeships.”

Chalkbeat.
1) Changes to Illinois’ early childhood education funding needed to fix pay disparities, advocates say   …the study compared salaries based on credentials that educators in K-12 and early childhood both have — such as college degrees and professional licenses… The results align with national findings that show early childhood educators in Illinois are paid about 30% less than public elementary school teachers in kindergarten through eighth grade despite having the same degree and license. 
2) Philadelphia gathering focuses on increasing numbers of Black male educators   El-Mekki, who started his career as a middle school teacher in 1993, has created a Black Teacher Pipeline Project, which started out awarding four fellowships to aspiring Black male teachers each year. Now, there are 26 fellows annually and $1 million in the Future Black Teachers of Excellence Fund… A new Pennsylvania law, SB99, allows high school courses on education and teaching to be eligible for Career and Technical Education credits.

EdWeek.
1) A Media Literacy Requirement That Starts in Kindergarten? New Jersey May Start the Trend   An earlier version of the bill would’ve required the department of education to provide in-service training and teacher preparation programming on media literacy. The final version doesn’t include those requirements.
2) As Head Start Quality Push Continues, Advocates Raise Red Flag on Equity   But efforts to improve quality increased the cost of local programs, Barnett said. For example, teachers with bachelors degrees may require higher salaries than their peers without them.
3) Linda Darling-Hammond Wins International Prize for Education Research: The $3.9 million Yidan Prize is arguably the world’s most prestigious education award   When I met some extraordinary teachers and began to study how they had learned to teach, and conducted research on teacher preparation at RAND and, later, at Teachers College, Columbia University, I discovered a deep knowledge base that few teachers could access. I determined then to work on understanding high-quality preparation for teachers and figuring out how it could become widespread.
4) The Architects of the Standards Movement Say They Missed a Big Piece   “Coherence is the next piece of the agenda,” said Laura Slover, the chief executive of the nonprofit CenterPoint Education Solutions and the former CEO of PARCC …teachers in the state didn’t always have the training they needed to implement these materials well, said John B. King, the former New York state education commissioner… Panelists highlighted examples of states that have bolstered support for curriculum implementation…

Government Technology. How Are Teacher Prep Programs Adapting to Virtual Learning?   Teacher preparation programs like the one at the University of Texas have overhauled their curricula to incorporate digital tools for remote learning, as well as training to respond to students’ mental health needs.

Hechinger Report. Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators: Only about 7 percent of America’s public school teachers were Black, according to the most recent data, while Black children make up 15 percent of the student population   Clemson University’s Call Me MiSTER program has been around for about two decades. The concept behind the program is recruiting, training and certifying minority men to become elementary school teachers in South Carolina.

KSHB. Kansas City Teacher Residency receives $5 million donation to support teacher recruitment, diversity   Kansas City Teacher Residency (KCTR), an organization that works to recruit, prepare, place and retain teachers in the Kansas City area, has received a $5 million donation from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

Lansing State Journal. Michigan State shortens teaching prep program from five to four years to address teacher shortages   The teacher preparation program will retain core elements, including a one-year internship and curriculum that focuses on social justice and equity, according to the press release, while making the program shorter and helping students save about $16,700 in tuition, not including thousands of dollars more in travel and living expenses.

ProPublica. At Washington State Special Education Schools, Years of Abuse Complaints and Lack of Academics   A special education director observed uncertified teachers struggling with no curriculum and urged the state to step in to protect “these extremely high-risk students.”… Washington also doesn’t demand state inspections and has vague staffing obligations. It requires an unspecified number of certified teachers and only one special education teacher per school. 

U.S. Dept. of Education FSA. 4 Loan Forgiveness Programs for Teachers   1. Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program 2. Teacher Loan Forgiveness (TLF) 3. Perkins Loan Cancellation for Teachers 4. State-Sponsored Student Loan Forgiveness Programs

Washington Post.
1) Another big right vs. left learning standards debate. Who cares?   Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, was less pessimistic. “It’s true that state academic standards themselves don’t teach anybody anything,” he said, but “in the long run they affect curriculum, teacher prep, assessments, accountability and more.”
2) Student loan-payment freeze extended as courts weigh debt relief

WHYY. Pa. releases anti-racist guidelines as part of teacher-prep overhaul   This is the first time the state has included what educators refer to as “culturally-relevant and sustaining education” guidelines as part of its requirements for teacher-preparation programs.

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InsideHigherEd. SUNY Sees Massive Increase in Applications   SUNY has seen a more than 110 percent year-over-year increase—from 97,257 to 204,437—in fall 2023 applications.

NYSED
1) Office of Higher Education Educator Preparation Newsletter
* Teacher Performance Assessment FAQs
* Board of Regents November Items.  a) School Building Leader: The Department proposed a regulatory amendment to revise the experience requirements for Professional School Building Leader (SBL) certification by removing the requirement that at least one of the three years of experience in an educational leadership position be as a school building leader.  b) Special Application For School Building Leader Programs To Show Alignment With The PSELS
2) Public comment period on Proposed Amendment.. Relating to the Student Teaching Requirements for Registered Teacher Preparation Programs and Through the Individual Evaluation Pathway to Certification    Comments must be submitted by December 19, 2022, to William P. Murphy, Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Higher Education, Room 975, Education Building Annex, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234, or email [email protected]. 
3) Public comment period on Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Experience Requirement for Professional School Building Leader Certification    Comments must be submitted by January 30, 2023 to William P. Murphy, Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Higher Education, Room 975, Education Building Annex, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234, or email [email protected].

Syracuse University News. SUNY ESF Graduates Launch Their Science Teaching Careers Together at the School of Education   Syracuse University’s relationship with its close neighbor, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been a long and fruitful one. After all, SUNY ESF was founded as a unit of SU in 1911, and today the two universities share resources, their professors collaborate, and students mingle across the two campuses, take classes together, join cross-campus organizations, and—sometimes—graduate from one college and into the other. That last scenario is certainly the case for six SUNY ESF graduates who, in summer 2022, enrolled in the School of Education’s (SOE) 13-month master’s degree program in science education (Grades 7-12).

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Bank Street College. Recruiting for Residencies: Possibilities for Today & Tomorrow [Nov. 16^th Video Recording]

Chalkbeat. Computer science classes have an equity issue. Some NYC educators are trying to change that.   New York City is trying to address this through a program called “Computer Integrated Teacher Education” to help train more than 1,000 New York City teachers to integrate computing across subjects. The $14 million initiative, announced Monday, is funded through a public/private partnership with the education department, CUNY, Google, Robin Hood, and Gotham Gives…

Teachers College. What You May Not Know About TC Alum & Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm: In honor of what would have been the legend’s 98th birthday, a look at her life and lasting impact   “I enrolled in TC to follow a career in the classroom, because I felt then, as I feel now, that education is the only real passport out of poverty,… If teachers are valuable to society, the school that teaches the teachers bears enormous responsibility to the next generation,” Chisholm wrote. “TC must continue to make sure that it graduates a diverse and innovative pool of educators who believe every child has something to give and that we are at our best as a society when the doors of opportunity are open wide for them all.”

GLOBAL
Education International.
1) Ghana: Campaign against privatisation and commercialisation of education   The increased teacher training also led to the deployment of over 120,000 more teachers, reducing the student-teacher ratio from 35 to 27 at kindergarten level, from 34 to 26 at primary level and from 16 to 12 in junior high school.
2) Join us! Teach for the Planet at COP27   The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) is taking place in Egypt, from November 6th to the 18th…  Governments must finance and implement reforms to include quality climate change education in curricula across subjects and grades, as well as in initial teacher training courses and professional development opportunities.

Education Times. Private education has grown faster in South Asia than any other region, reveals UNESCO report   Tertiary education is increasingly private due to insufficient public supply… Teacher training institutions are also often private with teacher education only provided exclusively by the state in two countries, Bhutan and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, more than 90% of recognised pre-service teacher education institutions in India were privately funded through student fees.

New York Times. How an American Survived Hiding From the Russians in Kherson for 8 Months   But for Mr. Morales, 56, a former college professor, the worst was behind him — no more anxious cat-and-mouse games with the Russians. Raised in Banbury, England, he had lived for years in Oklahoma City teaching English literature, and had opened an English-language school in Kherson before the Russian invasion in February.

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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. AACTE and Education Community Urge Congress to Support EDUCATORS for America Act   This legislation would make critical investments in the federal government’s educator preparation programs, including the following: *Authorize $500 million annually to support educator preparation programs and partnerships including: *Update and expand the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program to focus on residency programs, strengthen the principal and school leader preparation programs, and enable partnerships to address the need for early childhood educators, school librarians, counselors, and other specialized support personnel…  

American Enterprise Institute. The critical race theory battle takes another turn   …a new report published by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education suggests, despite itself, that these laws did not go far enough. The report, titled “The State of Education Censorship in Institutions of Higher Ed and Implications for the Field,” … succeeds in dripping with self-righteous contempt for Republican legislators and the constituents they represent — raising the question of why any conservative policymaker would continue to grant a teacher-training monopoly to institutions captured by ideologues who hate them.

Chalkbeat.
1) Discipline and passion: How Colorado’s Teacher of Year makes magic   Was there a moment when you decided to become a teacher?  When I was studying music as an undergraduate at Tennessee State University, I took some courses that required practicums — we would go to a school and observe a teacher teach their class. These really ignited my passion for teaching instrumental music to middle school and high school students…
2) Teaching ‘world changers:’ Indiana’s 2023 Teacher of the Year applies history to today   How and when did you decide to become a teacher? Did you always want to teach in your hometown? I didn’t think about pursuing education as a career until my sophomore year of college. I interned for an awesome eighth grade history teacher and cadet taught for my former first grade teacher during my senior year of high school… People always told me I’d be a good teacher, but I didn’t think teaching was prestigious enough… In college, I had a professor who showed me that teaching could be a calling and a profession full of purpose. That changed my trajectory.

Education Week.
1) ‘Does Anyone Else Cry After Work?’: Teacher Reddit Is the Unfiltered Voice of Educators   A study unveiled this month found that the status of the teaching profession is at its lowest in five decades—teachers’ job satisfaction is the lowest its been in recent memory, public perception has soured, and fewer young people are interested in teaching as a career. 
2) From Hospice Work to 1st Grade: One Teacher’s Career-Changing Journey   Tennessee became the first state to be approved by the U.S. Department of Labor to establish a registered apprenticeship program for teachers. The state now has approved seven teacher-preparation providers to run apprenticeship programs… I started out as a teacher resident going back to school, getting my master’s level classes at Lipscomb. Last year, I taught 1st grade on a job-embedded license, [which allows candidates with at least a bachelor’s degree to work as a teacher while working toward full licensure]. Now that I graduated in the spring and got my degree and my licensure, I’m teaching independently.
3) The Status of the Teaching Profession Is at a 50-Year Low. What Can We Do About It?   Jeffrey Henig, a professor of political science and education at Teachers College … “We have a whole bunch of policies that come and go, but are linked by the fact that, ultimately, it’s teachers who are the ones who deliver those policies in classrooms…So, if in fact the working conditions for teachers are declining, so that teachers are becoming not just less happy but less able to do a good job, then that has implications.”

Hechinger Report. In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning: Play supporters point to improved literacy, fewer achievement gaps, and better motor skills for students   Before becoming a teacher, Oklahoma state Rep. Jacob Rosecrants, a Democrat, thought all students were taught lessons through play. “I became a teacher back in 2012 and I realized it’s [play] not even accepted anymore as a way to learn, even in the younger grades,” Rosecrants said. “Some schools do it great, but I’m talking about the way that I learned — going outside, playing, discovering — that type of thing was not something that was focused on in any of the public schools I went to [as a teacher].”

InsideHigherEd.
1) How Colleges Measure and Prove Their Value: With public doubts escalating about whether going to college is “worth it,” campus leaders and policy analysts discuss steps institutions are taking to show how they help students and society.   …we’re in a state that ranks 50th out of 50 in teacher pay. We’re going to shut down our teacher education program. It calls on us to think more strategically about the cost of those programs. That is something that NAU and Arizona as a state have been working on for the last several years. We have something called the Arizona Teachers Academy, which will provide students a tuition-free teacher-prep degree, provided they commit to staying in the state and teaching in a school in the state for the same number of years that they get this scholarship.
2) Pressure Builds for Biden to Extend Student Loan Payment Pause: Calls for the extension intensified after a federal appeals court ruled against the administration, dealing another blow to the loan-forgiveness plan.   The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found in an April report that many borrowers would struggle to make payments when the pause ended. That resumption of payments comes as the administration is overhauling debt-relief programs including income-driven repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. New regulations aimed at fixing Public Service Loan Forgiveness are going into effect July 1.

KTEN Oklahoma. Oklahoma teacher shortage, low pay linked to test score slump   The Oklahoma State School Boards Association reported more than 1,000 educator vacancies, with nearly 3,000 emergency teaching certificates at the beginning of the school year. The Oklahoma Education Association said teacher pay in the Sooner State ranks 34th in the nation. “That just has a residual effect on the number of teachers and programs you have,” said Madill Public Schools Superintendent Larry Case. “Which makes it even worse in today’s climate to where people aren’t going into education.”

NEA News. State Funding for Higher Education Still Lagging   A majority of state legislatures spent far less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than they did in 2008, an NEA analysis shows. This means colleges and universities must rely on students to pay the cost of college—and those students are borrowing to do it.

Pearson Education. edTPA® Community Newsletter November

Washington Post.
1) Biden administration asks Supreme Court to reinstate student loan forgiveness program   The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit decided 3-0 on Monday to side with a coalition of six Republican-led states that requested that the court table any debt cancellation amid its ongoing litigation. The injunction is to remain in place until further notice from the court or the Supreme Court, according to the order.
2) Virginia is changing the way it teaches history, social studies. Here’s how    Differences: The old guidelines call on teachers to dissect, compare and contrast the concepts of “colonialism,” “imperialism,” “nationalism” and “racism.” The new guidelines do not suggest this….

Western Michigan University. Results-oriented academic leader, public policy scholar will lead Western’s academic affairs division   Following a nationwide search, Western Michigan University has named Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig as its next Provost and Vice president for Academic Affairs… Vasquez Heilig currently serves about 3,000 students, staff and faculty as dean of the University of Kentucky’s College of Education…prioritized increasing diversity among teachers and recruiting more students to the teacher pipeline amid a growing shortage in the United States.

WMAR Baltimore. Aspiring teachers discuss the difficulties with the certification process   “Everyone should want high-quality teachers, but we shouldn’t have barriers to entry that don’t make sense, or to test the wrong thing,” said David Steiner, Professor and Executive Director for Johns Hopkins education policy.

NEW YORK STATE
NYSED Board of Regents. November Meetings
* Higher Education Committee. Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Experience Requirement for Professional School Building Leader Certification   …the Department proposes to amend the experience requirements for Professional School Building Leader certification by removing the requirement that at least one of the three years of experience in an educational leadership position be as a school building leader. This proposed amendment will provide school districts and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) with greater flexibility to assign administrators to the roles and responsibilities that are needed in their local education agencies.
* Consent Agenda P-12 Committee. Amendment…Relating to Universal Prekindergarten Program (UPK) Staffing Qualifications   …the proposed rule requires that staff of eligible agencies collaborating with the district to provide Pre-K services have a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or a teaching license or certificate valid for services in the childhood grades. If such staff lack these qualifications, the district must obtain a waiver from the Department as a condition of their employment.

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Chalkbeat. For this Brooklyn teacher, climate education can inspire students to help their communities   Slack became a teacher through the New York City Teaching Fellows program after running a nature center in southern Massachusetts, and she has always kept climate education at the forefront of her work. 

Gothamist. Bilingual teachers hard to find as thousands of migrant students enter NYC schools  …according to the United Federation of Teachers, fewer than 3,000 teachers are certified as bilingual instructors. That’s approximately one educator for 47 students, although these educators are not evenly distributed throughout the school system. There are also 3,455 educators certified to teach English as a New Language (ENL) but they are not necessarily bilingual themselves, and their classes are primarily in English, according to the UFT. Other teachers may be bilingual, but are not certified.

Teachers College. Take Action on Student Loan Forgiveness   A recent lawsuit is blocking the President Biden’s debt forgiveness plan which calls for us to take action. The TC Take Action Coalition is convening on November 30th to do just that–we are advocating for a payment pause extension and for the President to use all legal tools available to cancel student debt in light of the recent court decisions. [Wednesday, November 30, 2022 12:00 – 1:00 PM Hybrid/Grace Dodge 197C]

GLOBAL
Mid-day. Union slams Maharashtra govt affidavit on aspiring teachers’ hiring freeze   The Maharashtra Students Union (MASU) and the advocate representing it before the apex court has punctured holes in the affidavit submitted by deputy education officer Sandeep Sangave on behalf of the state of Maharashtra in the matter of the BMC freezing the recruitment of 253 teachers to civic primary and secondary schools, as the candidates had not done their schooling in English medium. 

Univ. of Auckland. Teacher Education in Schools expanding for 2023   After a successful first year, the University of Auckland is continuing and expanding the Teacher Education in Schools Programme for online students wanting to become secondary teachers in 2023.

World Socialist Web Site. Australian university union hails Labor’s cost-cutting budget   …the extra places are tied to vocational courses designed to funnel students into “skills shortages” areas identified by the government and employers, with the lion’s share going to teacher education, followed by nursing…. 

UNITED STATES
AACTE.
1) Board of Directors Election [vote by Nov. 30]
2) Real Classroom Experience and Real Pay: A Snapshot of a Teacher Preparation Program in America’s Most Diverse Small City   New Jersey City University, a minority serving institution, is home to the innovative “Teacher Intern Program” (TIP)… IP interns work anywhere from 10-30 hours/week, depending on their academic schedule and schools’ needs. They earn $20 an hour which is 54% above the New Jersey minimum wage. Substitute license fees and Praxis exam reimbursement are also provided by the program. Funding, provided by partner schools, is typically sourced through Title I budgets.

Education Week.
1) Election Guide 2022: Results on the Issues and Races Affecting K-12   Outside of raising teacher pay, some of the solutions Democrats and some Republicans proposed included establishing statewide “grow your own” and apprenticeship programs, recruiting teachers from rural areas, and partnering with colleges and universities to create more robust teacher preparation programs.
2) Lucy Calkins Revisits and Revises Her Reading Curriculum (by TC Prof. L. Calkins)   The message that has been pushed out by some phonics advocates, and that has trickled down to parents and even some educators, is an oversimplified one: If only teachers would teach phonics exclusively, then presto, all the reading problems in the world would vanish… To date, there is no evidence that a curriculum that gives sole attention to phonics and focuses especially on kids sounding out words—as important as that work is—will, on its own, prepare kids for mastery of rigorous state standards.

Forbes. How Bowie State University Is Diversifying The Teaching Profession   As teacher education programs across the nation cope with enrollment declines, Bowie State University, a historically Black university in Maryland, has been steadily increasing the number of students enrolled in bachelors’ education programs, growing from 221 students in 2018 to 319 in 2021, a substantial jump

InsideHigherEd. Moving Forward on FAFSA Simplification  Colleges and universities have to update their cost of attendance calculations now that the Education Department has said it is carrying out that change and others for the 2023–24 academic year.

New York Times. Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher   Mr. DeSantis taught at Darlington in the 2001-02 school year after graduating from Yale University and just before attending Harvard Law School… Like other first-year teachers, Mr. Wempe said, Mr. DeSantis was “drinking from a fire hose” and learning the job on the fly. 

The74. Breaking Down the Walls to Teaching: Alternative Pipelines Boom   Residencies, fellowships, and grow-your-own programs bring more diverse educators into the profession, help vacancies in STEM, special education

Univ. of North Georgia. Students learn about teacher education   More than 170 high school students enjoyed learning about the University of North Georgia’s (UNG) College of Education and its teacher preparation programs on Nov. 3.

Washington Post.
1) In one state, every class teaches climate change — even P.E.   Historically, climate change has not been comprehensively taught in U.S. schools, largely because of the partisanship surrounding climate change and many teachers’ limited grasp of the science. That started to change in 2013, with the release of new national science standards, which instructed science teachers to introduce students to climate change… Even in New Jersey, many teachers said they lacked confidence in their knowledge of the subject in a 2021 survey. 
2) It may take longer for some public servants to see student loan relief   For the last year, the Biden administration has allowed social workers, teachers and other public servants to retroactively receive credit toward debt cancellation regardless of their type of federal loan or payment plan. The reprieve ended Oct. 31 and has so far resulted in more than 247,000 people receiving $15 billion in debt cancellation…

WBEZ Chicago. Amid a national teacher shortage, UChicago appears to be dissolving its teacher training program   The university says it’s “pausing” admissions to its well-regarded grad program that trains teachers to work in urban districts like Chicago’s.

WZTV. Tennessee looks at dropping mandatory test for novice teachers, combatting staff shortages   The education teacher performance assessment (EDTPA) is a national test that was implemented about a decade ago. However, this could soon be a thing of the past in Tennessee due to recent teacher shortages. JC Bowman with the Professional Educators of Tennessee says, “It’s a impersonal, costly, subjective, it’s a drain in time, and it doesn’t predict good teaching.”

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Buffalo Business First. Daemen University employs creative solutions to solve teacher shortage   Daemen University’s new graduate programs have also been revised – we have created six online graduate programs from two face-to-face graduate programs. Now, students can access every single program necessary for various certifications in New York state with a plan in place to convert new programs to the new students with disabilities all-grade certification. There is also a plan to address the gap in special education teachers, whereby Daemen programs will meet the requirements for all-grade certification for students with disabilities.

Chalkbeat. Here’s what Gov. Kathy Hochul’s win could mean for New York schools  In her first year in office, she oversaw significant developments in education, including boosting funding for schools and signing a bill that aims to limit class sizes in New York City schools…  To address the state’s looming teacher shortage, she expanded some alternative teacher certification programs. She also temporarily waived an income cap for retirees who want to return to the classroom. The situation could soon get dire as state teaching programs have seen enrollment drop by more than half since 2009, and about a third of current teachers are projected to retire in the next five years…

NYSED Board of Regents. November 2022 Meeting
* Higher Education Committee. Proposed Amendment … Relating to the Experience Requirement for Professional School Building Leader Certification   …the Department proposes to amend the experience requirements for Professional School Building Leader certification by removing the requirement that at least one of the three years of experience in an educational leadership position be as a school building leader. This proposed amendment will provide school districts and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) with greater flexibility to assign administrators to the roles and responsibilities that are needed in their local education agencies.
* Consent Agenda P-12 Committee. Amendment…Relating to Universal Prekindergarten Program (UPK) Staffing Qualifications   …the proposed rule requires that staff of eligible agencies collaborating with the district to provide Pre-K services have a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education or a teaching license or certificate valid for services in the childhood grades. If such staff lack these qualifications, the district must obtain a waiver from the Department as a condition of their employment.

New York State Museum. Native American Heritage Month: Online Exhibitions & Educator Resources

NEW YORK CITY
Teachers College.
1) Here’s How Indigenous Curriculum Can Help Students Thrive   Through her research of urban, Indigenous youth, postdoctoral fellow Rachel Talbert offers insight for educators to facilitate more honest, inclusive social studies curriculum
2) Inflation Threatens Equity. Here’s How. We chatted with just some Teachers College experts on how inflation may affect education, food access and mental health. In addition to inflation’s effect on teachers, student loan debt is continuing to raise challenges for students pursuing higher education, particularly those from lower-socioeconomic backgrounds.
3) TC Veterans You Need to Know: Meet members of the TC community who served in the U.S. military — and learn what motivates them — in honor of Veteran’s Day   Major Freeman … began her teaching career when guiding cadets through basic training and went on to become an Assistant Professor of Military Science in the ROTC program at UCLA… “I thought I would learn to become a better teacher,” says the major. “But talking so much about social justice taught me to look at the big picture – knowledge I can use to raise awareness at West Point.”

GLOBAL
Boston College. BC’s Lynch School takes center stage: Two major conferences draw education leaders from across the nation and around the world   The Global Education Deans’ Forum resumed in-person meetings after a two-year, pandemic-driven hiatus on October 19-21 when the Lynch School welcomed the international organization of schools of education leaders.  Twenty-four deans from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America, and the United Kingdom, as well as the Lynch School’s Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education Lin Goodwin, former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, attended. 

DutchNews. More students sign up for teacher training at college   …the increase in popularity of a teaching degree is probably down to government measures – in particular help with tuition fees – and the hefty increase in teachers’ pay agreed this summer. 

UNESCO.
1) 2022 South Asia Report dialogue non-state actors in teacher education. Hybrid meeting. [11 November – 3:00 – 5:00 pm]
2) Global education monitoring report 2022, South Asia: non-state actors in education: who chooses? who loses?  * Inadequate supply and quality of public education, combined with parental aspirations, have driven private education expansion from early childhood to tertiary education. About a third of students in India and Pakistan, and a quarter in Nepal are in private schools that receive no state assistance. Over 90% of teacher education institutions in India are funded only by fee.

UNITED STATES
Chalkbeat.
1) A look inside Colorado’s yearslong push to change how schools teach reading   Several prominent teacher preparation programs have revamped their reading coursework. And prospective elementary teachers must now pass a separate exam on reading instruction to earn their state licenses.
2) I’m a social studies teacher: We are all responsible for struggling readers.   Teachers need adequate training to identify those with dyslexia. Students need access to diagnostic testing and to the research-based methods shown to be most effective in teaching students with dyslexia.
3) Sweeping research effort tackles big question: How to get tutoring that works to more kids   The programs being studied include: * Deans for Impact, a nonprofit focused on teacher training, which will work with teacher prep programs to train and pair aspiring teachers with students… * Great Oaks Foundation, which will recruit and train young people to be placed in schools for a year to tutor students in math and reading through AmeriCorps. * Matheka, a math tutoring company, which will recruit and train bilingual tutors from Latin America… Huffman hopes the research will help show whether it’s possible to train high schoolers, parents, college students, and pre-service teachers to effectively tutor students in large numbers.
4) To address teacher shortages, Tennessee may drop major test for many teacher candidates   The proposal to drop edTPA, which would take effect next September, is among numerous ways Tennessee is trying to increase its teacher pool after seeing a gradual decline in the number of aspiring educators graduating from the state’s 40-plus teacher training programs.

EdSource. New literacy standards for teacher candidates could be pivotal to improving student reading scores   A set of new literacy standards and teaching performance expectations, approved by the California commission that issues teaching credentials, should ensure all universities are on the same page when it comes to training future educators… The literacy standards, mandated by state legislation, put a greater emphasis on teaching foundational reading skills that include phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition, and fluency.

EdWeek.
1) Apprenticeships Are the New Frontier of Teacher Preparation. Here’s How They Work   The U.S. Departments of Labor and Education have urged states and school districts to create and register apprenticeship programs for teaching, which comes with federal funding that can pay for on-the-job training, wages, and other supportive services, such as textbooks or child care. At a time when many states are lowering standards to fill classroom vacancies, advocates point to apprenticeship models as a way to expand the pool of potential teachers without sacrificing quality. 
2) As Charter Schools Rise, Fewer Graduate From Undergrad Teacher Prep. Why?   The paper, published by the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH), analyzed data from 290 school districts with at least one commuter college nearby. The researchers found that increasing a district’s charter school enrollment by 10 percent seemed to decrease the supply of teachers prepared in an undergraduate university-based education program, on average, by about 14 percent… The study’s results show a connection, not a definitive cause-and-effect relationship. 
3) Educators, You’re the Real Experts. Here’s How to Defend Your Profession   Nothing is more educative than the act of teaching. People who disrespect educators do not realize that those in K-12 education learn from every moment of teaching. They experience countless opportunities to refine what is learned in their teacher education years. 
4) Nation’s Second-Largest School System Plans to ‘Embrace’ the Science of Reading   Carvalho… called on school districts to take action and on educator preparation programs to instruct teachers in evidence-based approaches… Last year, the state mandated that colleges and universities demonstrate they’re preparing teachers to deliver “foundational reading skills” instruction.
5) New Guide Pairs Research and Policy on Recruiting, Retaining Teachers of Color   The book is organized into 11 domains of inquiry, breaking down each of the factors involved when implementing successful programs and policies for recruiting and retaining local educators of color. These domains include program design in teacher preparation and other training, the role of minority-serving institutions, human resource development and induction, mentorship, and more.

Forbes. The First 50 Days: A Brand New Teacher Finds Her Footing Thanks To The Power Of Mentors   …Teach Charleston, the school district’s in-house teacher recruitment, preparation and development program. Rooted in local context, the program made Charleston County Schools the first district in the state to develop its own teachers. The new teachers must commit to live and teach in Charleston County for at least 3 years.

Hechinger Report. In one giant classroom, four teachers manage 135 kids – and love it   Five years ago, faced with high teacher turnover and declining student enrollment, Westwood’s leaders decided to try something different. Working with professors at Arizona State University’s teachers college, they piloted a classroom model known as team teaching.

Long Beach Post. LBUSD has a plan to diversify its workforce by hiring from its own student body   The LBUSD has partnered with Long Beach City College for a program called Grow Your Own, which will give students at Poly, Millikan, and Jordan a chance to start taking education-related classes at LBCC while still enrolled in high school with the goal of speeding them toward a career in teaching.

National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH). How Do Charter Schools Affect the Supply of Teachers from University-Based Education Programs?   Our data allow us to break the result down further. We examined effects on the number of teachers of different racial groups and found that the effects exist for both white and Black teachers. The effect was larger for Black teachers – a 17% drop versus 11% for white teachers

NYTimes. What Do American’s Middle Schools Teach About Climate Change? Not Much.   Some states, including Washington, California, and Maine are turning to teacher training programs. National science educators have lauded ClimeTime as one of the best efforts. The program receives several million dollars a year in state funding. Since 2018, it has trained 14,000 teachers, or more than a fifth of the teachers in Washington state.

Washington Post. Loan company distances itself from GOP-led states’ student debt suit   Until now, MOHELA has remained silent on the states’ lawsuit… MOHELA is the primary servicer for borrowers pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a federal program for teachers, firefighters and other public servants.

WHYY. How a therapy once seen as a victory for autistic kids has come under fire as abuse   These days, a growing number of ABA therapists are becoming accredited through online training programs that not only face quality issues, but have failed to adopt the kinds of changes Juarez and his team are advocating for… Juarez first encountered ABA in the late 90s while studying to become a special education teacher at the University of North Texas, which boasted one of the country’s first undergraduate programs for behavior analysis. 

NEW YORK STATE
New York State Education Department.
1) New York Teacher Surprised with Prestigious Milken Educator Award and $25,000   Garvey earned a bachelor’s in English literature and inclusive childhood and middle childhood education from Nazareth College in 2011 and a master’s in literacy education from SUNY Oneonta in 2021.
2) Office of Higher Education Educator Preparation Newsletter October 2022
* Board of Regents Items: Student Teaching. School Building Leader. Computer Science.
* Empire State Teacher Residency Program Request for Applications (RFA)
* AAQEP Teacher Performance Assessment Collaboration Days
* NYSATE/NYACTE Conference Presentations

NEW YORK CITY
Bank Street College. Online event Recruiting for Residencies: Possibilities for Today & Tomorrow. [Nov. 16, 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST]

Teachers College. These Alumni Award Honorees Are Trailblazers: The seven honorees will be recognized at the State of the College on Nov. 16   Min Hong (M.A. ’91, Ed.M. ’98, Ed.D. ’03) is a 32-year veteran of the New York City Department of Education, serving as a teacher, literacy coach, administrator, and now as a principal of Bronx S.T.E.M. & Arts Academy… Hong was honored as a MetLife Fellow for her excellence as a culturally responsive educator by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.